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.
Flight attendants from Southwest Airlines (SWA), represented by the Transport Workers Union (TWU), and AirTran Airways, represented by the Assn. of Flight Attendants (AFA) voted to ratify their seniority integration agreement. The tentative agreement, reached late last year, integrates the two groups' seniority lists ( ATW Daily News, Dec. 27, 2011).
IATA reported that international premium traffic for November grew 1.7% compared to the year-ago month, but increased only 0.6% compared to October. The level of premium travel has “trended downwards from the high point reached earlier in 2011,” IATA said in its latest premium traffic monitor. IATA predicted there will be little growth in premium travel over the next few months because “world trade growth has slowed to a virtual halt in recent months and business confidence in the major industrial economies has fallen sharply.”
US Airways (US) has reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement with the Assn. of Flight Attendants (AFA) to unite US and former America West flight attendants. AFA represents the airline's 6,700 mainline flight attendants. The tentative agreement, which must be approved by the AFA master executive council, will be sent to its members in the coming weeks. AFA did not announce details of the agreement.
