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 failure of oil pipes in the hot strut is suspected of triggering the chain of events that led to the uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on a Qantas Airbus A380 on Nov. 4.
The European Commission today is expected to put all Afghan airlines on its blacklist of unsafe airlines. The move comes as the EC believes that Afghan authorities have been unable to guarantee an acceptable level of safety oversight of the country’s airlines following several serious flaws that were recently discovered.
LAN and TAM could stay in separate airline alliances even after their merger is complete, TAM’s CEO Libano Barroso told Aviation Week at the ALTA general meeting in Panama City. “It is not the most probable option, but it is not impossible to keep both alliances,” Barroso believes. A decision of the two airlines to go with one alliance could take up to two years, he added. Since TAM and LAN announced their merger earlier this year, one of the key questions debated in the industry is where the combined group will end up.
