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.
Following the demise of both Maxjet and Eos, at least one of the all-business-class airlines appears poised to stick around: London-Luton based Silverjet yesterday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with a United Arab Emirates investor to inject an initial US$25 million into the company.
Emirates expects Concourse 2 at Dubai’s international airport to open in the fourth quarter of 2008, said President Tim Clark. The opening is already several years late and was most recently scheduled in May. But now, construction work is planned to be completed by the end of next month with an extensive phase of testing to be started after that. Concourse 2 is adjacent to the current overcrowded terminal and will be used by Emirates exclusively.
Emirates still does not know when it will get its first Airbus A380. The airline has been trying to nail Airbus down for a fix date, but “it’s like trying to catch a slippery eel,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark says. The official timeframe for first delivery is late summer, and Emirates is expected to deploy the aircraft on its first routes to New York, London and Sydney in the fall. Clark says Emirates is not informed by Airbus about possible further production delays in the A380 program.
