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.
The discovery of an alleged terrorist plot caused global disruption of air travel yesterday, with U.K. airports experiencing the most chaos but U.S. airports also seeing massive security delays. Hundreds of flights were canceled by U.K. carriers, and those flights that did take off were delayed by hours due to airport congestion and delays in passenger list screening. The Transportation Security Administration imposed additional airport gate searches that will be extended to other airports today.
Lufthansa's July traffic was up only 1.4%, compared to a 4.9% increase at Air France-KLM and a 4.4% gain at British Airways. Traffic was down 2% on the transatlantic routes, but the German airline's European network benefited from the soccer World Cup, as demand was up by 7.7%. -JF
SAS Group's profit fell slightly in the second quarter, as the airline felt the effect of the late Easter holiday and a cabin crew strike in Norway. Net profit was down to SEK489 million (US$69 million) from SEK495 million a year earlier, SAS said yesterday. Sales were up 12% to SEK17.9 billion (US$2.5 billion). Traffic in the period was up 7.3%.
