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.
ATR’s flight training center in Singapore has gained European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification and will soon begin ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 training courses. The center will be inaugurated in mid-December and will provide flight crew type rating through recurrent training to differences courses. The EASA certification covers full flight simulator training for -600 aircraft, maintenance and training devices and a brief/debrief station. ATR also operates a -600 series full flight simulator training center in Toulouse, France.
United Airlines (UA) was not responsible for alleged airport security lapses in the lead up to the 9/11 hijacking of an American Airlines aircraft that was deliberately crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, Reuters and other news agencies reported Wednesday. According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein granted a request by UA and parent United Continental Holdings to dismiss negligence claims brought by Larry Silverstein, leaseholder of the World Trade Center property (WTCP).
