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.
Airbus told launch customer Singapore Airlines that it will receive its first Airbus A380 in the second half of 2006, an Airbus spokesman said yesterday, sevaral months later than planned. Airbus previously wanted to deliver the first aircraft before the end of the second quarter. According to the company, no exact date has been agreed on with SIA. The airline will need several more weeks after the delivery before starting revenue services with the aircraft.
Mesa Air "would operate narrowbodies today, if we had different labor laws," CEO Jonathan Ornstein told delegates at the Phoenix Aviation Symposium. Current scope clauses now in effect prohibit the regional carrier from moving up in aircraft size. As Ornstein highlighted, US Airways' profitability would improve by $2.8 million each time the airline replaced one of its mainline narrowbodies with an Embraer 170 operated by a regional carrier.
HAMBURG -- Backed by significantly improved financial results in 2004, Lufthansa Technik forecasts growth for its own business and the general market, but at lower prices, and is reinforcing its efforts to cut costs and adapt to the newly emerging worldwide airline/MRO environment.
