2025 ATW Lifetime Achievement Award Interview: Nicholas E. Calio

President and CEO of A4A

During the pandemic, Calio helped secure $60 billion from Congress to keep airline workers employed.

Credit: A4A
Congratulations on being the very well-deserved recipient of the 2025 ATW Lifetime Achievement Award. You became CEO at Airlines for America (A4A) after years in high-level Washington political and lobbying work. What attracted you to A4A and to the airline industry? I love to fly. Where I grew up...
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Karen Walker is Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Aviation Week Network Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief. She joined ATW in 2011 and oversees the editorial content and direction of ATW, Routes and Aviation Week Group air transport content.

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