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.
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller and the Prime Ministers of the states of Northrine-Westfalia and Baden-Wuerttemberg wrote a letter to Germany’s Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, urging him to extend the approval that would allow Air Berlin and Etihad to continue codesharing on the important Berlin-Abu Dbabi and Stuttgart-Abu Dhabi routes, as well as on many European connecting flights beyond Berlin.
International Airlines Group (IAG) has made clear that it is against the construction of a third runway at British Airways’ main hub in London-Heathrow because of the high cost.
