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.
With coming end of economic sanctions against Iran, airframers expected more orders from country’s airlines. Many financial system issues slow the progress.
ZURICH - Star Alliance selected Jeffrey Goh as its new CEO succeeding Mark Schwab who plans to retire at the end of this year. Goh, 47, is currently Star’s chief operating officer and has been with the alliance since 2007. Before that, he worked for the International Air Transport Association.
ZURICH - Swiss International Air Lines has converted five more orders for Bombardier CS100s to CS300 and says that a majority of its 30 C Series orders will likely shift to the larger variant. Under a 2007 C Series launch order placed by its parent company, Lufthansa Group, Swiss was to receive 30 CS100s. A year ago, it converted 10 of those orders to CS 300s.
