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.
Finnair managed to triple its third-quarter profit to EUR26.4 million (US$31 million) as traffic and yields continued to grow. Sales were up 13.4% and stood at EUR471 million (US$550 million) for the period. CEO Keijo Suila, who will retire by the end of the year, said the airline will post a significant full-year profit.
Lufthansa is slowly returning to former profitability levels despite high fuel prices and the difficulties of some of its subsidiaries. The airline met analyst expectations in its nine-month results published yesterday but disappointed the financial community by not giving a clearer outlook. Lufthansa's shares dropped by more than 3.2% during the day and only partially recovered the loss after the airline modified previous statements and said that its fiscal 2005 operating result will be significantly higher than EUR400 million.
The size gap between Europe's No. 1 and 2 airlines, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, widened in October as the former continued its strong growth, while the latter's traffic figures were worse than expected.
