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.
New aircraft deliveries “represent a potential overhang in capacity that could add to the current squeeze on profit margins,” the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warns in its latest airline financial monitor.
Loss of control has replaced controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as the No. 1 aviation accident cause in recent years. Overall, the airline industry's safety performance has been unchanged in the past decade, but as the Flight Safety Foundation’s European Aviation Safety Seminar in Istanbul concluded last week, it would be relatively easy to put it back on track to improvement.
Loss of control has replaced controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as the number one aviation accident cause in recent years. Overall, the airline industry also has stopped improving its safety performance in the past decade, but as the Flight Safety Foundation’s European Aviation Safety Seminar in Istanbul concluded last week, it would be relatively easy to change that.
