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.
If the global economy is still in the doldrums, someone forgot to tell attendees at the 2012 Farnborough Airshow in July. Airbus alone logged sales at the show valued at a list-price total of $16.5 billion and which included 26 A350-1000s for Cathay Pacific, 20 A321s for Russia’s UTair and a commitment by Irish lessor Avolon for 15 A320neos.
There’s much at Lufthansa (LH) for its rivals to envy. An industry innovator, LH is founder of the Star alliance, a move that sparked the shift to global alliances. LH’s leadership in the advancement of training, safety, environment and aircraft technologies is second to none. It’s the largest European operator of the Airbus A380 and the launch customer of the Boeing 747-8.
