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.
SN Brussels Airlines and Air Senegal have inked a partnership deal that covers the Brussels-Dakar route and intra-African services. Air Senegal will sell seats on the SN Brussels long-haul flight, while offering connecting services on Air Senegal aircraft from Dakar to Accra, Ghana; Bamako, Mali; Cotonou, Benin; Lome, Togo; Niamey, Niger; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Nouakchott, Mauritania, and Cap Skirring in Senegal. SN Brussels is primarily an intra-European carrier but offers a significant network to African countries. -JF
Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert expects the order intake to decline within the next two years, as 2005 has turned out to be a record year for Airbus and Boeing. Humbert told The DAILY at the Dubai Air Show that in his view, the total annual market was for 650-800 units, about half of the roughly 1,600 aircraft the two manufacturers expect to sell this year.
Lufthansa is boosting capacity at Duesseldorf Airport after a cap on daily movements was eased. The airline plans to add about 40 weekly services to seven destinations in January 2006 and says this is a first step to better match capacity with demand. Duesseldorf Airport is situated in Germany's most densely populated region but is limited in capacity because of local noise regulation. The airline plans to add Madrid and Nice, France, as new destinations and add frequencies to Birmingham, Manchester, Rome, Barcelona and Lyon.
