Linda Blachly is Senior Associate Editor for Air Transport World and Aviation Week. She joined the company in July 2010 and is responsible for producing features for Air Transport World’s monthly magazine and engaging content for the aviationweek.com. She is based in the Washington DC office.
Linda received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
Previous positions include Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Trips & Getaways magazine; Editor, The Bowie Blade-News, published by Capital-Gazette Communications; and Managing Editor, The Prince George’s Sentinel. She has also worked as an editor for book publishers, Maryland Historical Press and BOMI Institute.
Linda lives in Gambrills, MD and enjoys family time with her three adult children and six grandchildren.
An unidentified airline has signed a firm purchase agreement for five Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft; the order is valued at approximately $160 million based on list prices.
OpenSkies (EC), the transatlantic subsidiary of British Airways (BA), is adding a new Eco cabin class to its Boeing 757 aircraft on flights between Newark and Paris-Orly from June 19.
An unidentified airline has signed a firm order for six CRJ1000 NextGen regional jets and has taken options on another 18, Bombardier announced Friday.
