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.
Air Berlin is trying to persuade its future partners in the Oneworld alliance to move long-haul services from Frankfurt to Berlin. “We will never be able to build up a hub in Frankfurt in competition with Lufthansa,” the carrier’s CEO Joachim Hunold told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the S7 Airlines joining event in Moscow. Hunold refused to reveal further details, but said that things are moving as expected.
S7 Airlines has brought its yields back up to where they were before the recent econonic downturn, Deputy General Director Anton Eremin told Aviation Week in Moscow. Backed by a surge in traffic and fare prices, the airline will be profitable in 2010, he predicted.
Jens Flottau (Frankfurt), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Boeing’s 787 program is facing more pressure on its flight-test schedule after the temporary grounding of the test fleet and with deliveries for several early customers delayed yet again.
