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.
Germanwings will base two more aircraft in Stuttgart and launch several new city-pairs in the upcoming winter timetable, a move that will make Germanwings the biggest low-fare carrier at Stuttgart. The airline will fly from Stuttgart to London Stansted, Madrid, Warsaw, Krakow and Zagreb. Also, the carrier will add Dresden and Hamburg as domestic routes and increase frequencies to Berlin from two to three daily.
The two managing directors of German low-fare carrier DBA together took a 20% stake in the company, DBA said yesterday. Peter Wojahn and Martin Gauss each bought a 10% stake in the airline. Eighty percent is still held by Hans-Rudolf Wohrl, who bought the airline from British Airways for EUR1 almost a year ago.
Swiss's shares dropped 18% Monday after more details emerged about the possibility of additional cost-cutting measures and the company's liquidity level.
