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 U.K. and India yesterday agreed to further liberalize the bilateral air services agreement in a phased approach that will boost the number of frequencies allowed between the two countries from 40 to 84 in 18 months.
Finnair plans to phase out its remaining 10 MD-80s by the end of next year, part of a broader plan to reduce fleet complexity and focus on fewer aircraft types. Finnair is one of the oldest McDonnell Douglas operators and still has a fleet of six MD-11s that it uses on long-haul routes. When the MD-80s are gone, the airline will fly 29 Airbus A320 series aircraft and at least 12 Embraer 170s in the European and domestic network. In addition to the 12 170s on firm order, Finnair holds options for eight more. The first 170 will be delivered in the fall.
EasyJet was Europe's largest low-fare carrier in March in terms of passengers carried, exceeding Ryanair's traffic by 80,000 passengers. The airline carried 2.57 million passengers, an increase of 29%. The load factor improved to 91.2%, up 4.3 percentage points. Separately, Air France-KLM reported 6.2% traffic growth on 3.9% more capacity. Its load factor improved 1.7 points to 80.1%. -JF
