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.
Lufthansa Regional will add a total of 11 BAe 146-300 regional jets to its fleet, BAE Systems said yesterday. Air Dolomiti will take five BAe 146-300s on lease from BAE Systems Regional Aircraft, which will be delivered from April to September. The aircraft are the biggest so far operated by Lufthansa's Italian regional, fully owned by Lufthansa. Air Dolomiti previously looked at Boeing 737s.
Lufthansa wants to overtake low-cost carriers on all the things they "do better than we do," Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber told a business forum in Berlin this week, promising that his group will get tougher on costs.
Swissair Group liquidator Karl Wuethrich is claiming a total of CHF280 million in damages from former executives. Wuethrich claimed that creditors were damaged by management's December 2000 decision to transfer the Roscor AG unit to the SAir Lines division, as the parent company received no money in the transaction and the airline division was of no value.
