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.
Lufthansa is seeing signs of a market recovery reporting a 0.7% increase in revenue passenger miles for October in its core passenger airline division (Lufthansa, Lufthansa Regional and Germanwings).
The Dornier 228 new generation prototype made its first flight late last week ahead of a short three-month recertification program. The aircraft performed a one-hour flight from the company’s Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, site. The Do 228 NG is a modernized version of the original Dornier 228 19-seater that was in production until 1998. The program was officially discontinued after the 2002 bankruptcy of its former owner Fairchild Dornier. It was later bought by Ruag Aerospace Services and relaunched in 2008.
