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 story clearly seems too good to be true. A small, privately owned business jet operator places the biggest-ever order for large corporate jets and conquers the market with its not-so-unusual business model, while others complain about the continuing crisis in European business aviation.
The balance between Boeing and Airbus in one of the world’s most important air transport markets is shifting with Japan Airlines’ (JAL’s) firm order for 31 A350s, and the consequences will likely be transformational.
TAP Portugal CEO Fernando Pinto says he hopes the privatization of the airline will be restarted soon, and that Brazilian investor Synergy Group will again be the frontrunner. “I hear that Synergy Group continues to be interested. It would be a good fit,” Pinto said at the ISTAT Europe conference in Barcelona. Synergy was close to buying TAP at the end of last year, but the process collapsed just before closing. Pinto says that was because there was insufficient time to complete the transaction ahead of a self-imposed deadline before the end of the year.
