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 the start of the 2012 US presidential campaign, there has been a lot of heated talk about the role of federal government, which is mostly charged with over-reaching and creating more problems than it solves. The big exception, however, is the airline industry. When it comes to the business of how to get the flying public to their destinations safely, on time, in reasonable comfort and with their bags in synch, then it seems that the only experts are in Congress and government agencies.
The US should make the creation of a next-generation air traffic management system a rallying project that maintains the country’s position as a global leader in the aerospace industry, Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) president and CEO Jim Albaugh said Tuesday.
The US Dept. of Commerce is creating a new committee that will target opportunities to promote and sell NextGen technologies and products to non-US markets.
