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.
A replacement for Lufthansa Group Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber will be made in September, according to Jurgen Weber, a former top executive at the company and currently a member of its supervisory board. It is widely expected that Mayrhuber’s successor will be Christoph Franz deputy chairman of the executive board and the top executive for Lufthansa’s passenger operations. Mayrhuber’s contract expires at the end of this year, but it could be extended until the company’s next annual general meeting in April 2011.
Lufthansa will use its first Airbus A380 to increase capacity on its non stop service between its Frankfurt hub and Tokyo Narita International Airport. The aircraft will fly to Tokyo three times a week starting June 11, replacing the Boeing 747-400 currently serving this route. Lufthansa says the A380 service will become daily Aug. 4 once it takes delivery of its second A380.
Lufthansa on Monday launched a three-times-weekly service to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from its second hub in Munich. The airline uses a Private Air Boeing 737 equipped with 24 business-class seats and 84 seats in coach. Lufthansa has been deploying the Private Air aircraft to destinations such as New York and Dubai. Riyadh is the eighth new destination for the Munich hub this summer. The airline also added Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Miami; Chisinau, Moldova; Tallinn, Estonia; Bari, Italy; Rostock, Germany; Zadar, Croatia, and Faro, Portugal.
