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.
The Italian government needs to find out in the next few weeks who is really interested in buying Alitalia, after a total of 11 bidders signed up in the first round of the airline's sale.
Lufthansa is adding more routes to its "betterfly" low-fare service by the end of March. The airline will also offer the EUR99 roundtrip fares on routes from Hamburg to Bergen, Bastia, Valencia and Balaton, said Lufthansa Executive VP-Non-Hub Services Christoph Klingenberg. Betterfly fares will be available on a total of 33 routes and 3,000 seats daily. The carrier stationed 15 Boeing 737s in Hamburg and separated the sub-fleet from the remainder of its short-haul planes to gain further efficiencies. -JF
Slovak Airlines was grounded this week by its majority shareholder Austrian Airlines after the Slovak government failed to take over debt owed by the previously state-owned company. The two aircraft -- one Boeing 737-300 and one Fokker 100 -- were flown to Vienna because they are owned by the Austrian Airlines Group. Austrian said that without the government sticking to its commitment, there was no way of turning around the unprofitable carrier.
