Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief
Washington, DC
Summary
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.
Karen serves on the board of directors of the International Aviation Club of Washington and was the IAC’s President in 2017-2018.
Karen has been writing about the aerospace and air transport industries for more than 35 years and is a recognized authority and commenter on the airline industry. She is a regular speaker and moderator at aviation events worldwide and a commentator on radio and TV news programs. In 2019, she was a judge and a presenter for IATA’s inaugural diversity awards.
Based in Washington D.C., she gained her degree in journalism in the U.K. and is a multiple winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s aerospace journalism awards.
She is the recipient of the Aerospace Media Awards 2021 Aerospace Writer of the Year.
Rapid air traffic growth in Indonesia is leading to infrastructure constraints and congestion that pose a bigger threat than low-cost carrier (LCC) competition, the head of Garuda Indonesia said Friday.
Asia-Pacific airlines are being held back on global aviation policy making because they do not have the advantage of speaking with a single voice the way European Union countries and the US do, airline CEOs were told Friday.
Asia-Pacific airlines—global industry leaders in terms of profitability in recent years—are cautious about 2014 as yields and profits this year have failed to reach anticipated levels, the head of the region’s airline association said Thursday.
