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.
Lufthansa for the first time publicly confirmed that it wants Michael Bishop to inject more capital into financially distressed partner carrier BMI before it takes over the airline (DAILY, May 15).
The Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) is concerned about the effects of a possible ban on night flights at Frankfurt Airport. The body representing airlines operating into Germany says that particularly leisure and cargo carriers would be threatened if, as expected, a regional court overturns a state government decision on the nightly flights.
German pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) named Ilona Ritter as a new member of the executive board with responsibility for the union’s collective bargaining campaigns.
