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.
Dominating this week’s top air transport stories include FAA halting Boeing’s planned production increase of the MAX and United Airlines removing the MAX 10 from its internal plans as investigations continue on the inflight loss of an exit door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737-9 on Jan. 5.
This week’s top air transport stories include a U.S. federal judge ruling that blocked the merger between JetBlue Airwaysand Spirit Airlines, and the ongoing U.S. investigation review following a Jan. 5 inflight loss of a door plug from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9.
