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 brake-up of a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 after landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on July 27 was preceded by three increasingly violent impacts on the runway, industry sources with detailed knowledge of the accident tell The DAILY. According to internal reports, the aircraft initially touched down at a vertical acceleration of 2g and bounced up in the air again. The second impact followed at a vertical acceleration of 3g while 4.3g was measured for the third and final impact with the runway.
Aer Lingus expects to at least reach a break-even result in its fiscal year 2010 after the airline saw a strong improvement in its operating and financial performance in the first half of the year. The Irish carrier managed to reduce its operating loss for the first six months from €93 million ($89.7 million) a year earlier to €19 million. In the second quarter, it turned an €18.2 million loss into an €18.8 million profit. Revenues for the first half were 3.1% to €538 million.
Turkish Airlines predicts it will continue to see strong traffic growth and improved financial results after having reached impressive figures in the first half of 2010. In the six-month period, demand was up by 26.8% as the airline boosted capacity by 19.9%. The load factor also improved by 4.1 points and now stands at 72.1%. Sales increased by 28% to €1.8 billion ($2.3 billion), pushing net profit up 181% to €134 million. However, operating profit fell by 34% to €55 million as the airline was hit by a significant increase in fuel costs.
