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.
Robert Wall (Toulouse), Douglas Barrie (Newport, Wales ), Jens Flottau (Newport, Wales)
Safeguarding cash is the primary marching order for EADS as it tries to navigate through the global economic turmoil going into a year where Airbus expects orders to fall sharply and come in below delivery levels for the first time since 2004.
Alitalia, now restructured, faces other crucial decisions following Air France-KLM’s agreement to take a 25% stake in the revamped airline. While the new carrier, which started operations last week as a combination of old Alitalia and its former domestic rival Air One, now knows who its new strategic partner will be in the next 3-5 years, two major issues are still unresolved; whether its route system will be built around hubs in Rome and Milan, and determining if it can survive without being fully merged into the Air France-KLM group.
An 18.9% stake in Air Berlin may now be placed as collateral with a major bank following last week’s announcements that Len Blavatnik, the airline’s biggest shareholder, had disposed of his holding. According to German stock market regulations, a new investor would have had to make himself known to the public after five days. But even after that period expired, no announcement was filed.
