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 plans to build up a much larger low-cost operation that, if implemented, would make it number three in size in the European low-fare market behind Ryanair and Easyjet. New CEO Carsten Spohr announced plans for a new intra-European carrier as well as a new airline that would focus on long-haul low-cost operations, possibly in cooperation with Turkish Airlines.
Air France-KLM has warned that its 2014 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) will be lower than initially expected. The airline group expects EBITDA to come in at €2.2-2.3 billion ($3-$3.1 billion). It had earlier predicted €2.5 billion.
