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.
Ask Laurie Price, director of aviation strategy at the Mott McDonald consultancy, what an ideal European regional airline looks like and he will say: It should be well-established in niche markets with a significant share of public service obligation (PSO) routes. And it should have a strong relationship with one of the region’s major airlines as a complement for the base network.
Austrian Airlines has named Gaudenz Ambuehl head of regional subsidiary Tyrolean Airways, which on July 1 will assume authority for the company’s entire operations after the mainline carrier’s pilots rejected a concessions package. Ambuehl, who is coming out of retirement to take his new position, has experience is such transfers having integrated a segment of the bankrupt Swissair’s fleet and staff into what was then regional carrier Crossair. That airline was relaunched as Swiss International Air Lines in 2002 and later acquired by Lufthansa.
