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 and its pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) are no closer to resolving a dispute over early retirement provisions as the second day of what has turned into essentially a full grounding of the airline ends. Lufthansa was forced to cancel 3,800 of around 4,300 planned flights over a three-day period. The airline plans to resume operations on Saturday morning April 5 (local time), aiming at operating as normal a schedule as possible. The carrier is estimated to have taken a €50 million ($68.5 million) hit to profits because of the walkout.
The global landscape of hubs is going to shift significantly toward fewer and larger hubs, senior airline executives at the Phoenix Aviation Symposium argue, driven by fuel prices and new competitors.
Delta has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the replacement of up to 50 widebody aircraft. The new fleet of long-haul aircraft is intended to replace all of the airline’s Boeing 747-400s and part of the Boeing 767-300ER fleet, as first reported by Aviation Week (DAILY, March 12).
