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 reported that US airlines employed 1% more workers in February compared to the same month last year. BTS said three network airlines (American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and United Airlines) decreased employment. Delta Air Lines reported 4.2 % more workers in February 2011 than in February 2010. Continental Airlines, which now includes employees who formerly worked for Continental Micronesia, reported a 1.1% increase, according to the report.
Two former Air France-KLM cargo executives were indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago Tuesday on charges of conspiring to fix rates and surcharges to and from the US on airfreight shipments, the US Dept. of Justice said.
