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.
Vueling, International Airlines Group’s Spanish low-fare operation, is shifting more of its capacity to international routes to mitigate a weakness in domestic demand that has depressed traffic more than 10%. “We were about a 70% domestic carrier, but that is now coming closer to 50/50,” CEO Alex Cruz said at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in London.
Spanish carrier Vueling has endorsed Bombardier’s CSeries CS300 as a viable airframe for budget carrier, with CEO Alex Cruz telling the World Low Fare Airlines Congress in London that “the CSeries will be the new narrowbody in town for a long time.” Vueling is in the process of placing an order for at least 60 aircraft, and is considering the CSeries alongside the Airbus A320NEO and the Boeing 737 MAX. Cruz says an order will be placed in the next few months.
