He started his journalism career in 1992 as a freelance writer for Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest daily national newspaper and soon specialised in air transport. Jens joined Aviation Week and Aviation Daily in 2000 as one of the European correspondents. Later his role was expanded to cover international air transport. In 2013 he was named Managing Editor Commercial.
Jens frequently appears on radio and TV to comment on industry matters. In 2003, he received the Hugo Junkers Award of the German aviation press for his coverage of Fairchild Dornier’s bankruptcy. He was named the country’s top travel and air transport writer by the Travel Industry Club three times. Jens graduated from the Munich School of Journalism.
Latam Airlines Group has reduced its capacity expansion through to the end of 2015 by 21 narrowbodies and one widebody. The revision reduces the company’s aircraft investment by $1.1 billion, some 17% less than planned when Latam was created a year ago with the merger of LAN Airlines and Grupo TAM.
