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.
Turkish Airlines plans to order at least 75 and possibly up to 105 new aircraft as part of its next expansion phase. The airline’s board of directors authorized a call for tenders for both narrowbodies and long-range aircraft and wants deliveries of the new fleet to start by late 2010.
Air Berlin yesterday for the first time officially confirmed that it is talking to rival TUIfly about a possible merger. “There are talks, but no results,” an Air Berlin official said yesterday. Both airlines have been active in consolidation in the recent past. TUIfly is the result of the merger of Hapagfly and HLX, while Air Berlin has recently bought LTU and DBA. But negotiations to merge TUIfly with Germanwings and Condor failed last month, and Air Berlin has unsuccessfully tried to buy Condor earlier this year.
