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.
Japanese airlines are finally detecting signs that the plunge in air travel demand following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is reversing, although full recovery remains a distant prospect.
Air Baltic’s two main shareholders have entered into an increasingly bitter, turbulent and public fight over control of Latvia’s main airline. The government is accusing management of neglecting company interests in important decisions, while management, led by CEO Bertolt Flick, says the state wants to sell the airline at all costs.
Ukrainian billionaire entrepreneur Igor Kolomoisky is about to create a large regional, low-cost airline in Scandinavia, as a takeover of financially struggling Cimber Sterling of Denmark is nearing completion. Mansvell Enterprises, a Cyprus-based entity in which Kolomoisky holds a 75% stake, signed a term sheet with the current owners of Cimber Sterling that would see the new investor take over a 66.7% stake in the airline through a capital increase.
