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.
A U.K. Airports Commission ruled out the possibilty that airport capacity in southeast England will grow by building a giant new hub airport in the Thames estuary, as proposed by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Air Baltic hopes key pillars of its future strategy can be cemented within the next few months now that the airline has returned to profitability in the first half of the year. The carrier, owned by the government of Latvia, has been investigating several strategic scenarios that have been presented to its shareholder. But major decisions are expected to be delayed until after Latvia’s general elections slated for October.
