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.
Air Berlin plans to sell six more narrowbodies over the next few weeks to reduce its fleet to 142 aircraft for the summer. The airline hopes to sell two Boeing 737s and four Airbus A320-family aircraft in addition to the two narrowbodies sold at the end of last year.
Air France-KLM Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta expects “significant improvement” of medium-haul operations in 2013 following “disappointing results” in 2012. The group this year plans to increase long-haul capacity 2% and reduce medium-haul capacity 2%. The cuts will target point-to-point markets, with capacity dropping 6.1% in this sector, while hub flying remains stable. Air France in particular will make sharp capacity cuts this year with the loss of 13 Airbus narrowbodies in the summer; low-fare affiliate Transavia, in contrast, is to boost capacity 12%.
