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.
Qatar Airways will publish an annual report for the financial year that ends this month, according to CEO Akbar Al Baker. This will be the first time the carrier publishes detailed financial results. So far Emirates has been the only hub-and-spoke carrier in the region to publish financial figures. Qatar, like the other Gulf carriers, has been strongly criticized by European and North American legacy carriers for allegedly receiving government subsidies.
Garuda Indonesia has made an internal decision to join one of the global airline alliances. The decision is to be announced by the end of the year, Executive VP of Commercial Service, Agus Priyanto, told delegates at the ITB Aviation Day in Berlin. The state-owned airline will complete the joining process in 2011, but he declined to say which of the three groups – Star Alliance, Skyteam or Oneworld — it has picked.
