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.
EasyJet was Europe's largest low-fare carrier in March in terms of passengers carried, exceeding Ryanair's traffic by 80,000 passengers. The airline carried 2.57 million passengers, an increase of 29%. The load factor improved to 91.2%, up 4.3 percentage points. Separately, Air France-KLM reported 6.2% traffic growth on 3.9% more capacity. Its load factor improved 1.7 points to 80.1%. -JF
Swiss International Air Lines' regional pilots overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking if the airline does not reach an agreement with the union over planned job cuts.
Lufthansa Cargo expects revenue growth to slow in 2005 after making up some lost ground last year. CEO Jean-Peter Jansen said he expects revenues to increase 5%-10% this year, having grown 11% last year. But the company will likely exceed the EUR34 million profit it has reached last year on EUR2.47 billion in sales.
