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.
Air Berlin could soon reach an agreement to take over parts of all of rival leisure carrier TUIfly. Germany’s second-largest airline and travel group TUI are understood to have cleared most of the hurdles in their negotiations, but need to sort out some final details.
Russian carrier Transaero is launching services from Moscow Domodedovo to Magadan, in the country’s Far East. The airline introduced a twice-weekly roundtrip this week. Transaero uses a Tupolev Tu-214 in a 184-seat, two class-configuration on the sector. Magadan is Transaero’s 13th destination.
Spanish airline Iberia plans to further trim capacity and spending as a result of weak passenger demand in the first few weeks of 2009. The airline stated yesterday that its newly launched 2009-2011 strategic plan sees the airline return to “earlier levels of profitability” and is targeted at reaching a growth of EBITDAR (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortization and rentals) of 15% within the next two years.
