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.
Emirates expects Concourse 2 at Dubai’s international airport to open in the fourth quarter of 2008, said President Tim Clark. The opening is already several years late and was most recently scheduled in May. But now, construction work is planned to be completed by the end of next month with an extensive phase of testing to be started after that. Concourse 2 is adjacent to the current overcrowded terminal and will be used by Emirates exclusively.
Emirates still does not know when it will get its first Airbus A380. The airline has been trying to nail Airbus down for a fix date, but “it’s like trying to catch a slippery eel,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark says. The official timeframe for first delivery is late summer, and Emirates is expected to deploy the aircraft on its first routes to New York, London and Sydney in the fall. Clark says Emirates is not informed by Airbus about possible further production delays in the A380 program.
China has finally given in to the temptation to contrast the success of Beijing Capital Airport’s vast new Terminal 3 with the debacle that is Heathrow’s Terminal 5. The 1 million-square-meter (10.8 million sq. ft.) terminal at Beijing is larger than London’s new facility, cost less than half as much to build and was built more quickly, notes the China Daily.
