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 is reporting positive financial effects from its €1.5 billion ($2 billion) Score restructuring program for the first nine months of the year, with non-fuel unit costs down 2.6%. The airline posted a €660 million operating profit for the period, but that was 27% less than the €907 million achieved last year. However, the airline benefited from €325 million in one-off items last year and says it recorded one-time negative impacts of around €200 million this year, most of them related to Score. Revenues remained stable at €22.8 billion.
The backlog for the Airbus A350-800 is shrinking further, now that Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot has opted to convert 10 of its 18 orders for the model into commitments for the larger -900 version.
