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.
Iberia on Friday took delivery of an Airbus A319, the first new aircraft since its fleet renewal program was suspended more than a year ago as a result of the global economic crisis. The aircraft is its 22nd A319 and 77th A320 family aircraft. It has outstanding orders for another nine narrowbodies.
British Airways returned to profitability in its fiscal third quarter (October-December 2009) when it made an operating profit of £25 million, the first after five loss-making quarters. CEO Willie Walsh said the change is due to a significant cut in costs, capacity reductions and some return of premium traffic on key routes.
The Turkish Airlines Board of Directors Thursday approved an order for up to 35 Boeing 737s as part of the airline’s efforts to massively grow capacity over the next five years. On order now are 25 of the aircraft, with 10 more as options. Turkish will take 737-800s as well as 737-900ERs, but the airline did not give a split between the two models. Turkish now has 86 aircraft on firm order and plans to operate a fleet of 196 by 2015.
