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.
After implementing drastic cost cuts, Scandanavian Airlines (SAS) intends to generate higher yields by enhancing inflight service. Still Scandinavia's largest airline (and Europe's No. 5), SAS is on its way to installing three types of cabin arrangements, instead of two, on European and long-haul services. The airline is introducing lie-flat beds to business-traveler destinations and is creating an intermediate class, between business and economy, with more legroom and upgraded inflight service.
Airbus parent company EADS yesterday revised upwards its 2004 earning forecast, backed by stronger than expected Airbus sales and an improved performance of its military business. "Preliminary estimates show that the company has exceeded its financial targets for the fifth closing in a row," EADS Co-CEOs Philippe Camus and Rainer Hertrich said in a joint statement.
Despite a significant capacity increase, Lufthansa managed to improve its load factor in December backed by strong growth in demand. Traffic was up 8.5% on 7% more capacity, leading to a 70.6% load factor, which was up a percentage point. The airline continued to benefit particularly from strong demand on its Asian network. Lufthansa expanded Asia capacity 17.6%, but even that was outpaced by a 19.2% demand increase. Traffic within Europe was up 5.6% and 3.2% to the Americas.
