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.
India plans to retaliate if the EU does not step back from plans to introduce its emissions trading system (EU ETS) at the start of next year, Prashant Sukul, joint secretary of India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation, tells Aviation Week at the World Route Development Forum in Berlin.
Cargolux and Boeing have reached a tentative agreement on terms and conditions for delivery of the operator’s first Boeing 747-8 freighter. This deal follows Cargolux’s unprecedented rejection last month of the first two 747-8Fs just days before a scheduled delivery ceremony. The dispute is understood to center on the 747-8F’s engines, in particular a 2.7% fuel burn shortfall that new Cargolux shareholder Qatar Airways is not willing to accept.
EADS is facing crucial decisions over its ownership structure now that Germany's government must decide within weeks about how to best protect its interests in Europe's largest aerospace company. According to industry sources, Daimler AG is losing patience in the slow-moving process to sell at least part of its stake as planned. It could, those sources say, decide to float its shares on the stock exchange if no other investor is found by the end of the year.
