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.
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that US airlines employed 389,444 workers in October, up 3% from October 2010. BTS said this is the 11 th consecutive increase in full-time equivalent employee levels for the scheduled passenger carriers from the same month of the previous year.
US Airways and American Airlines have confirmed to ATW they have added a $3 surcharge each way ($6 for a roundtrip) onto tickets purchased in the US for flights to and from Europe, in the wake of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which took effect Jan. 1 ( ATW Daily News, Jan. 5).
Boeing delivered 477 commercial aircraft in 2011 and ended the year with 805 net orders and a backlog of 3,771 unfilled commercial orders, the manufacturer said.
