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.
LE BOURGET, France— Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has placed the first of its Airbus A321LRs with Air Astana. The national carrier of Kazakhstan signed lease deals for seven A320neo family aircraft. Four of them will be the recently launched A321LRs, the long range version of the A321neo with a 97-ton maximum take-off weight. Air Astana plans to take delivery of the aircraft in 2019. They will replace the current fleet of Boeing 757s.
