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.
TAP Portugal has changed its plans to buy new Airbus A320s for its European and African networkin light of an expected deep loss in 2008 and an extremely challenging 2009.
Germany’s travel managers say a planned Lufthansa fee contravenes “business ethics” and will burden the economy with additional triple-digit costs, leading the Amadeus global distribution system (GDS) to sue the airline. Verband Deutsches Reisemanagement (VDR) today called on the country’s biggest airline to change its plans.
Brussels Airlines decided to postpone the launch of its planned new airline in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Managing Director Bernard Gustin said at the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board meeting in Chicago. The DC Air project will only be pursued further once political unrest settles in the country and the danger of an outright war diminishes. Another factor complicating the move is the fact that all of Kongo’s airlines are blacklisted by the European Commission. “We cannot operate a blacklisted airline,” Gustin says.
