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 France-KLM said in a statement last week that it “confirms its intention to take an active part in the consolidation process in the air transport industry.” The statement goes on to say that “Iberia is an important player in air transport” and, “taken in the perspective of much-needed consolidation for the efficiency and profitability of the air transport sector, it is therefore quite normal for it to be examined amongst others.”
Jens Flottau and Michael A. Taverna (Frankfurt and Paris)
EADS shareholders and the German government pledge to start talks soon on a new shareholder structure for Europe’s biggest aerospace company, following agreement last week on a simplified management structure.
Emirates continues to push Boeing to commit to the 787-10, a double-stretched version of the 787-8. "We'd like an absolute guarantee that they will make that aircraft by a certain date," Flanagan said in an interview yesterday. While Boeing is telling Emirates to look at developments at the 767, which had much greater capabilities in the end, compared to the earliest versions, "we would like something rather less vague."
