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.
The merged American Airlines (AA) and US Airways will create an airline with the best domestic feed of the US’s three mega-carriers and will make oneworld the strongest of the global alliances, US Airways president Scott Kirby said Wednesday.
The head of IATA has called for a US aviation agenda that would recognize that America’s airline industry is deregulated and should be treated as such.
US Airways has posted a record net profit for the 2013 first quarter and said its planned merger with American Airlines is on track to be completed in the third quarter.
