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.
A Russian Yakovlev 42D aircraft operated by Moscow-based Yak Service crashed on takeoff about 2 km. from the runway of Yaroslavl Airport (IAR) in Russia, killing at least 43 and critically injuring two of the 45 people onboard, according to the Associated Press.
IATA reported that international passenger traffic increased 7.3% year-over-year in July while domestic traffic rose 3.5%. Total system traffic heightened 5.9%.
