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.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects passenger air traffic to grow faster during the next few years than it has in the previous five years. In its latest Airline Industry Forecast, the association estimates air travel will grow by 5.4% annually (compound annual growth rate, CAGR). That is significantly more than the 4.3% the industry has seen in the five years up to and including 2012. According to IATA, growth has been slower in that period because of the 2008 global financial crisis in its longer term effects on the global economy.
Lufthansa says an oil overfill of a newly replaced engine on one of its Airbus A380s is the likely cause of a serious cabin fume event on Nov. 29. “We believe that surplus oil got into the cabin through the bleed air system,” Chief Pilot Werner Knorr says in an internal memorandum obtained by Aviation Week. The incident happened on Flight LH592 from Frankfurt Airport to O R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, and involved the aircraft with registration D-AIME.
