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.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh believes Boeing’s potential investment in a re-engined 737 would be similar to what Airbus put into the A320NEO. Albaugh told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the IATA annual general meeting in Singapore that “we could put a 70-in. fan under our wing; we would just have to raise the front gear a little bit.” On the A320NEO, the PW1000G is planned for an 81-in. diameter, and the Leap-X option will be around 76 in.
The International Air Transport Association’s departing Director General Giovanni Bisignani called upon the industry to embrace more change and show greater unity in his last state of the industry address at the group’s annual general meeting.
The focus of the investigation into why Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic a year ago is starting to change now that safety experts have begun evaluating information from the Airbus A330-200's flight recorders. Questions surrounding human factors are moving into the spotlight as the investigation further unfolds, with concerns of turbulent weather and pitot-tube icing shifting into the background.
