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.
With its first PW1000G Geared Turbofan (GTF) certification under its belt, Pratt & Whitney is looking to increase the engine’s bypass ratio to achieve even greater efficiencies.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then rising oil prices are not all bad news for airlines. The growing need to reduce unnecessary fuel burn is creating a sense of urgency about global airspace modernization and the need for more efficient air traffic management tools.
Bombardier Aerospace rolled out the first CSeries flight test vehicle (FTV1) Thursday at its Montreal Mirabel facility and announced an extended variant of the CS300 that can carry up to 160 passengers.
