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.
EADS is facing crucial decisions over its ownership structure now that Germany's government must decide within weeks about how to best protect its interests in Europe's largest aerospace company. According to industry sources, Daimler AG is losing patience in the slow-moving process to sell at least part of its stake as planned. It could, those sources say, decide to float its shares on the stock exchange if no other investor is found by the end of the year.
As if volatile oil prices, a European recession and an aggressive low-cost airline rival were not enough to deal with, EasyJet management's main threat appears to come from its inability to resolve a long-running dispute with one its founder—and one of its main shareholders—Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The two sides have sparred over a host of issues—from the composition of the board of directors to fleet plans—and in the latest twist, EasyJet suggests Haji-Ioannou may be threatening to set up a rival airline.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines is embarking on a new strategy that will build on the deep cuts already made to its cost structure and move the airline even further away from the traditional hub-and-spoke legacy business model.
