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 Arabia is shifting capacity growth away from its bases in Morocco and Egypt as it waits for the market to return after the Arab Spring uprising. “Our focus will be on Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Africa,” CEO Adel Ali told Aviation Week at the Low Fare Airline Congress in London.
Turkish low-fare airline Pegasus is about to announce a major narrowbody order, with CEO Ali Sabanci telling the World Low Fare Airline Congress in London that “we are already there, but I would like to announce it in my own country.” According to Sabanci, the carrier is choosing between the Airbus A320NEO and the Boeing 737 MAX and will buy more than 40 aircraft, the size of its current fleet. “The order will be a lot larger than that,” he says, noting that Pegasus could triple domestic capacity.
Vueling, International Airlines Group’s Spanish low-fare operation, is shifting more of its capacity to international routes to mitigate a weakness in domestic demand that has depressed traffic more than 10%. “We were about a 70% domestic carrier, but that is now coming closer to 50/50,” CEO Alex Cruz said at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in London.
