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.
Aegean Airlines expectsheavy deficits in the next two years as it deals with the effects of the Greek financial crisis and the significant costs of integrating Olympic Airlines.
Airlines will add more products — including pre-flight, onboard and post-flight — to generate ancillary revenues in 2010, as well as find new ways to partner with travel companies such as car rental and hotels, predicts PhoCusWright. U.S. airlines alone generated $8 billion in revenue from ancillary services in 2009, and airlines and distribution systems will need to keep up with required changes in technology to sell them, it says.
Austrian Airlines will de-peak its Vienna hub later this year as part of a network rearrangement, creating smaller peaks, says CEO Peter Malanik. With more to come in the next few weeks on the new structure, which aims to reduce the time aircraft are on the ground, Malanik will only say, “We will not give up our niche markets, but we will sharpen our focus on trunk routes.”
