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 is introducing an all-business-class service from Frankfurt to Pune, India, moving its first service of the kind on Asian routes. The airline will deploy an Airbus A319 in a 48-seat lay-out to the Indian city, which is situated 200 kilometers southeast of Mumbai. Pune is a centre for the IT, chemical and automotive industries, also, several universities are located in the area. The flight will be operated by Swiss business aviation specialist PrivateAir and will be flown six times weekly.
TAP Portugal decided to move to the Star Alliance common IT platform. The airline will transfer its inventory, reservation, sales and check-in to CITP in 2010, Star Alliance said yesterday. The platform was launched in 2005 by Lufthansa and United and has meanwhile been joined by Austrian, Adria and Croatia.
Airbus has set up a separate entity to take over three of its German sites originally earmarked for outsourcing. The Varel, Nordenham and Augsburg sites will be integrated into the German Aerostructures Company (GAC) that will for the time being remain a fully owned EADS subsidiary. The unit will be run by Hans Lonsinger, a former head of EADS’ Augsburg plant.
