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.
Atlantic Airways, which recently took delivery of its first Airbus A319, will use the aircraft mainly on the Vagar, Faroe Islands, to Copenhagen route, which is currently served five times daily. The A319 is equipped with head-up guidance. and Atlantic, the national carrier of the Faroe Islands, plans to use the first European Required Navigation Performance approach procedures. Vagar Airport has a 1,700-meter runway (5,577 feet).
Diehl Aerosystems says it is having more trouble than expected to integrate lavatory producer Dasell. Diehl bought the company last year and has since renamed it Diehl Service Modules. “Its state was more critical than expected when we bought it,” admits Diehl Aerosystems CEO Rainer von Borstel. “We have to massively restructure.” Dasell is also not where it should be in terms of delivery schedule adherence and quality, von Borstel said on the sidelines of the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg.
Iberia’s pilots plan to go on strike every Monday and Friday until mid-July to protest the launch of lower-cost affiliate Iberia Express. Flight crews represented by the Sepla union have staged strikes on 12 days since last year to express their opposition to the initiative. The latest round of labor-management talks collapsed.
