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.
British Airways CEO Rod Eddington favors emissions trading as a way to reduce the output of carbon dioxide, one of the hot-button issues the European Commission plans to tackle that would affect airlines (DAILY, March 15). "Our experience is that trading is a workable approach and need not be excessively costly. A tax would not only be bad for the economics of our industry, it would also be bad environmental policy," he said at the IATA Aviation and Environment summit in Geneva.
Consolidation of the European airline sector continues to gain momentum, as Lufthansa confirmed its plans to buy rival Swiss International Air Lines and form a three-hub airline system in the center of Continental Europe. The transaction could be approved at board meetings this week.
