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.
Swiss' traffic was up 3.6% in September, the sixth consecutive growth period following more than three years of decreasing traffic. The airline reduced capacity by 1.8%, and load factor improved by more than four percentage points to 82.2%. Traffic growth was particularly strong in Europe, up 10.5%, while long-haul demand was up 1%. -JF
Roughly three days after resigning as CFO of Independence Air, Richard Surratt was named CFO of ProQuest Co. Surratt joins ProQuest on Nov. 2 and officially becomes CFO Nov. 11.
More than three years after its own inception, Swiss International Air Lines is setting up a separate regional subsidiary in an effort to cut unit costs in its unprofitable European network.
