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.
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.
