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.
Latvian national carrier Air Baltic recorded a LVL850,000 (US$1.6 million) loss in 2004 as the airline dealt with strong growth and fleet renewal efforts. The airline's revenues grew by 54% to LVL51.6 million (US$95.4 million), and passenger numbers increased 75% to 590,000. Last year, the airline started flying from neighboring Lithuania. Air Baltic is 47.2% owned by the SAS Group, while the Latvian government holds the rest. -JF
BMI British Midland CEO Nigel Turner wants the British government to negotiate an open-skies deal with India, helping the airline to boost its frequencies to the country. Talks between the two countries on a liberalized air services agreement were restarted this week after the existing deal was relaxed in late 2004.
Aegean Airlines and Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft submitted binding bids to acquire Olympic Airlines (DAILY, Feb. 16), one of the successors of defunct Greek national carrier Olympic Airways.
