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.
Dana Air (9J) has confirmed that 146 passengers and seven crew members were killed when one of its Boeing MD-83s crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, June 3.
IATA and the Airlines for America (A4A) trade associations have joined forces to promote the economic benefits that airlines and the air transportation industry bring to the US, and to try and counter a feared surge of new taxes and regulations as legislators work to reduce budget deficits.
