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.
The Supervisory Board of Austrian Airlines named Thierry Antinori as new CEO of the carrier (Aviation Daily, Dec.1). The 49-year old will start his new job on April 1, 2011. Antinori has so far been a member of the Executive Board at Lufthansa’s passenger airline division, where he was responsible for sales and marketing.
Lufthansa restarted its inflight Internet offering on Tuesday, inaugurating the service on an Airbus A330-300. The aircraft operated the LH 400 service from Frankfurt to New York. Initially, passengers will have access to broadband Internet on some of the airline’s North Atlantic routes. Availability will be expanded to cover the entire long-haul fleet and its network by the end of 2011. Lufthansa is also looking at including its short-haul fleet at a later stage.
