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.
Lufthansa is evaluating an even deeper restructuring and more capacity cuts, and next year will stop training new pilots as the airline struggles to adapt to a slump in passenger demand. Europe’s largest airline group is not revealing details on how deep the cuts will be and what additional cost-saving targets it plans to reach. But CEO Christoph Franz, during the company's Oct. 31 third-quarter results conference call, said, “We have to think about additional measures. It’s not enough to say we have a great program that works.”
Estonian Air has fired CEO Tero Taskila with immediate effect and instructed his successor to fundamentally overhaul the airline's strategy. The new CEO, Jan Palmer, was once the top executive at now-bankrupt Cimber Sterling, Skyways and Malmo Aviation. Palmer takes control of an airline that has posted massive losses for the first nine months of the year, a development that also forced Estonian's board of directors to step down.
Etihad Airways has ordered another two Airbus A330-200s and converted part of an earlier A320 order into A321s. The airline currently operates 17 A330-200s, six A330-300s and two A330-200Fs from previous orders that also include two more A330s scheduled for delivery. All A330-200s, including the two new orders, are powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. Etihad operates 15 A320s and has an outstanding order for 12 more. Seven of these aircraft are now turned into the larger A321s, which are added to a backlog of seven more A321s.
