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.
Lufthansa’s first-quarter results provide yet another example of the strong influence that exchange rates exert over the airline business, and how little airlines can do about it.
Kratky, 57, has been nominated by the company, but still needs formal confirmation by Austrian’s board of directors, which is scheduled to meet on May 12.
“Emirates does not receive and never has received any form of subsidy from the UAE (United Arab Emirates) government,” the company says in its “Open Sky” government affairs newsletter. “And considering that we have operated to the U.S. since 2004, we fail to understand how we can possibly be competing unfairly in 2015.”
