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.
Just four weeks into the job, Ireland’s new Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross delivered a lively keynote address on the AGM’s opening day Thursday, making clear Ireland’s support for aviation, liberalization and competition. Ross lost no time getting to the heart of some of the global aviation industry’s key issues.
As he takes the IATA AGM stage for the last time as director general, Tony Tyler remains all business and doggedly determined to continue addressing those issues that hamper the global airline industry.
Speaking with the Executive Report ahead of the AGM, AAPA DG Andrew Herdman summed up some of the questions that will be on the minds of many of the Asian carrier CEOs during this AGM.
