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.
The focus of the investigation into why Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic a year ago is starting to change now that safety experts have begun evaluating information from the Airbus A330-200's flight recorders. Questions surrounding human factors are moving into the spotlight as the investigation further unfolds, with concerns of turbulent weather and pitot-tube icing shifting into the background.
Aer Lingus says a potential pilot strike planned next week would have a “significant adverse effect on profitability” as it would come in the middle of the busy summer travel season. Its pilots—organized in the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) branch of the IMPACT trade union—voted in favor of striking in the ongoing dispute over rosters. The union told Aer Lingus that pilots based in Cork and at its main base in Dublin will not work on free days and annual leave days and that they will report for duty one hour late.
Air France Flight 447 entered a long, low-speed stall in the minutes before its June 1, 2009, crash off the Brazilian coast, according to data released by the French accident investigation bureau BEA. BEA disclosed the rough chain of events May 27 after a preliminary analysis of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which were retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month.
