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.
CFM International had a busy day at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai Tuesday. In addition to launching the LEAP-X1C on the C919, the company said that Air China finalized its order for CFM56-5Bs to power 20 firm Airbus A320 aircraft which will be delivered in 2011. The engine order, originally announced at the Farnborough International Air Show in July, is valued at approximately $300 million at list prices ( ATW Daily News, July 21).
The US Air Transport Assn. said the actual cost of FAA's proposed rule governing flightcrew duty and rest requirements issued two months ago could cost $19.6 billion—15 times more money than the $1.25 billion the government projects—as it submitted final public comments calling for significant revisions to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( ATW Daily News, Sept. 13).
Flight crew are calling on the TSA and Dept. of Homeland Security to revise their “enhanced security screening” procedures requiring all persons to be subject to screening by intimate pat-down searches or advanced imaging technology machines now in place at many US airports ( ATW Daily News, Oct. 4).
