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.
Membership in a global airline alliance has its costs, and every penny spent in an industry faced with a global downturn gets watched, but airlines praise the value they achieve from membership in the Star Alliance. As Continental became its 25th member during Star Alliance’s recent annual meeting in New York, alliance members said they are increasingly using joint procurement to help control annual spending.
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).
