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.
As Embraer defines its plan for the second-generation E-Jet regional aircraft, it plans to ensure pilots will need to have only one type rating to operate either aircraft model. Over the course of the next year, Embraer will have discussions with airlines to assess their requirements for a new product and to define the performance parameters by late next year for the new family of aircraft, says Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, Embraer president of Commercial Aviation.
Emirates is insisting on receiving its Airbus A350-1000s according to the original specifications and is voicing frustration with Airbus’s approach to customers with regard to the design changes announced at the Paris air show, Emirates Airline President Tim Clark told Aviation Week at this week's Dubai air show. “We will not sanction an interruption of our growth program,” Clark says. “We have made that absolutely clear to Airbus. We have been held back too many times and have always regretted that we slowed down.”
