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.
Long-time Pinnacle Airlines Corp. President and CEO Philip Trenary announced his resignation Monday, effective March 24, to “pursue other interests,” the company said in a statement.
Pinnacle Airlines said it reached a tentative accord with flight attendants to amend its collective bargaining agreement. If ratified, the contract would provide a five-year extension to the agreement that became amendable on Jan. 31, it said. Pinnacle’s 797 flight attendants are represented by the United Steelworkers AFL-CIO.
An ICAO study released Thursday estimates that demand for aviation personnel will reach 2 million by the year 2030 and reveals a shortfall of training capacity in existing facilities, equivalent to 160,000 pilots, 360,000 maintenance personnel and 40,000 air traffic controllers.
