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.
SAS Group on Thursday named Rickard Gustafson as its new CEO. Gustafson will succeed Mats Jansson in March 2011 at the top of the financially struggling carrier. As Jansson is leaving the company by the end of September, Deputy CEO John Dueholm will be interim president and CEO.
Estonian Air is close to clearing the last hurdles in its corporate turnaround plan, having announced a preliminary deal to order three Bombardier CRJ900s. The deal is subject to parliament approval for a capital increase for the national carrier approved by the Estonian government last week.
