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 managed to narrow its 2004 loss, but still remained unprofitable in its third year of operations, posting a CHF140 million (US$118 million) net loss, compared with a CHF687 million loss in 2003. Swiss in its recent past warned that it will remain unprofitable in 2005 unless severe cost-cutting measures are implemented.
Greece's second-largest airline, Aegean Airlines, confirmed on Monday that it formally submitted a bid for state-owned national carrier Olympic Airlines. Greece's daily Imerisia reports a total of seven non-binding bids have been submitted for the airline. Olympic Airlines is the flight operations unit of the former Olympic Airways, which was split into an airline and a ground-handling company.
German carriers DBA and Germania Express (Gexx) were close to reaching an agreement on joining forces yesterday but continued their negotiations as The DAILY went to press. Sources close to the talks said that a deal is expected shortly, but that negotiations could still break down with several issues pending.
