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 is pressing the UK government and the European Commission to speed up negotiations about a new aviation agreement that would regulate the European air transport market following the country’s vote to leave the EU (Brexit).
Emirates Airline President Tim Clark says the carrier needs to change the way it operates to get back up to the kind of profit margins it used to enjoy.
