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.
Figures released Tuesday by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show that 2009 could become the safest year ever in international air transport. The accident rate stood at 0.57 hull losses per million sectors at the end of November. That’s lower than the previous record of 0.61 achieved by the industry in 2006. But maybe more importantly, the trend of deteriorating safety results since 2006 “has been reversed,” said IATA Senior VP-Safety, Operations and Infrastructure Guenther Matschnigg.
Unbridled ambition is being tempered by a survivor instinct as Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) tries to secure its place in the Middle East’s emerging aerospace industrial world.
South African Airways (SAA) will likely select a new CEO by the end of January, acting CEO Chris Smyth told The DAILY on the sidelines of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB) meeting this week in Brussels. Smyth says he is not certain whether he could also be elected. He was appointed to his current post on an interim basis after his predecessor, Khaya Ngqula, was forced to step down over an alleged bribery scandal.
