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.
A year after European air traffic management was thrown into chaos by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano, a new volcanic ash cloud is demonstrating that regulators still have not determined how to respond most effectively.
Greek airline Aegean managed to reduce its losses in the first quarter by implementing sharp capacity cuts. The airline’s pre-tax loss came in at €18 million ($25.4 million), compared with €32.8 million a year earlier. Aegean carried 15% fewer passengers in its system and 18% fewer on domestic routes. Revenues decreased by 8% to €105.7 million, and load factor dropped from 62% to 59.7%.
