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.
Airbus today may officially launch a new version of its A330 widebody at the Beijing Aviation Expo. “We are going to have a product announcement in Beijing,” Airbus Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy said yesterday at an event in London, although he declined to comment further.
Driven largely by rapid growth in emerging markets, Airbus expects that airlines and lessors will order close to 30,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years. Only around 10,000 of these will be used to replace older jets; around two-thirds of the demand will come from the expected growth, Airbus says in the latest version of its Global Market Forecast. Despite the slow sales of its A380, the manufacturer remains adamant that around 1,700 such aircraft will be needed in the next 20 years.
London Gatwick Airport says the U.K.’s economy would benefit more from a second runway at Gatwick rather than a third at London Heathrow Airport. Stewart Wingate, Gatwick’s CEO, tells the Financial Times that a move by one of the three alliances from Heathrow to the city’s second airport would be a prerequisite for the runway expansion to proceed. “If an alliance were to move down at some future point into Gatwick, not only would there be room for the alliance to grow—from a U.K.
