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 SkyCargo is continuing its aggressive growth plans and could become the world's largest cargo airline in the next few years. The Emirates group's logistics subsidiary is about to put together the necessary ingredients to an almost unheard of growth story: It has a host of new aircraft on firm order, it is expanding its network to take advantage of its ideal geographic location and, finally, much-needed additional capacity is in the process of coming online.
BMI plans to order new aircraft for its expanding long-haul operation and to start transatlantic services from London Heathrow Airport. "When we decide what we are going to do and the timing of it, then inevitably more aircraft will follow," CEO Nigel Turner said yesterday. BMI plans to start the new transatlantic routes in March 2008, when the new open-skies regime between the U.S. and the European Union becomes effective.
Emirates plans to place an additional order for up to 15 Airbus A380s as the airline is finalizing details of a wide-ranging fleet study. "We could easily absorb 5-15 more A380s," Emirates President Tim Clark told Aviation Week & Space Technology on the sidelines of the company's annual media conference here. A current in-depth analysis of traffic flows "is reshaping our thinking," Clark said. "We see growth everywhere in the network," and this would justify higher-capacity aircraft on more routes than previously anticipated.
