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.
Fleet plans have already been made for most carriers, both for short-haul and long-haul services, and Airbus and Boeing order books are full for the next eight years. Anything but some kind of pause would be both unusual and unhealthy.
The move comes almost a week after cabin crew union UFO ended an eight-day strike that forced the airline to cancel around 4,500 flights affecting 550,000 passengers.
Initially deployed on the Amsterdam-Abu Dhabi-Bahrain route, the aircraft is the first of 25 Boeing 787s that the airline—a unit of the Air France-KLM Group—plans to phase in. KLM recently decided to take six larger 787-10s and 19 -9s.
