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.
Singapore Airlines is cutting two of its four Middle East destinations, more evidence that competing against the big three Gulf carriers in their backyard is becoming increasingly difficult. Singapore will stop its service to Riyadh/Saudi-Arabia and Cairo/Egypt at the end of September. “The difficult decision to suspend the services was taken as a result of the sustained weak performance of both routes,” Singapore Airlines says.
