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.
MTU Aero Engines, which expects to double revenues by 2020, says it is in talks to participate in programs to update Boeing’s 777 and re-engine the Embraer E-Jet family. “There is a strong likelihood that we will be together with GE [General Electric on the 777 replacement],” CEO Egon Behle said on the sidelines of the 2012 ILA Berlin air show. “There are intense discussions ongoing, but no papers have been signed yet.”
The ministers of Spain, France, Germany and the U.K. responsible for their countries’ interest in Airbus have issued a joint statement favoring a global emissions trading system to replace the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). “We are very aware that the clock is ticking,” the U.K.’s newly appointed business minister, Michael Fallon, said at the ILA Berlin air show following the Airbus ministers’ Sept. 11 conference. “Airbus has left us in no doubt that [ETS] is a clear threat to its order list.”
Lufthansa, acquiescing to demands from its cabin crew union UFO, next year will fold Berlin flight attendants into its permanent workforce. The announcement by CEO Christoph Franz on Friday came after the latest strike by UFO forced the airline to cancel about half of its 1,800 daily flights. Part of UFO’s complaint with the airline is its policy of outsourcing certain functions, particularly flight attendants working from Lufthansa’s Berlin base, who are currently employed through a staffing company.
