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.
International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) is “seriously considering” canceling its order for 10 Airbus A380s. ILFC CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy told The DAILY on the sidelines of the IATA annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur that he is observing “a fundamental structural shift in how the airlines are thinking about the aircraft.” Hazy added that “if I was Airbus, I would be very concerned about the program right now.”
The global airline industry is expected to see losses of about $9 billion this year — double the loss predicted less than three months ago — due to a projected revenue decline of $80 billion, according to new estimates from the International Air Transport Association.
Data from Air France flight 447’s automatic ACARS message indicate the pilots may not have had access to the correct speed information during the final minutes of the flight. The list of fault messages sent to Air France’s operations headquarters in Paris includes a sequence of notes that hints at the three Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) computers to show diverging information. ADIRU compiles data delivered by the pitot tubes and processes it to the aircraft’s other computers.
