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.
The Air Line Pilots Assn. welcomed the TSA’s announcement Friday of expedited screening for airline pilots as an “important action to move the nation toward a threat-based strategy” and focus security resources where the risk is “highest” and away from a “one-size-fits-all approach,” it said in a statement.
IATA reported that, after a dip in August, international premium traffic increased in September by 12.1% compared to September 2009, providing grounds for a "reasonable expectation that the recovery in premium traffic will continue into the final quarter of the year," according to the organization's September Premium Traffic Monitor. On the strength of the performance, IATA also said that "it would appear that earlier concerns over a stalling of recovery of premium traffic might have been misplaced.
