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.
Commercial transport sales and deliveries remain flat but better times are expected to materialize in the second half of the year, said aerospace executives attending ILA 2004. Confidence in the emergence of a long-awaited upturn was also expressed by top Airbus officials shortly after the opening of huge production facilities at Toulouse-Blagnac to accommodate final assembly of the A380 mega-transport.
Hungary's new low-fare airline Wizz Air expects to post an operating profit in its second financial year, CEO Joszef Varadi told The DAILY on the sidelines of the Berlin Air Show, and he predicted his carrier will likely break even in the first year or incur a small loss.
Virgin Atlantic Airways posted a GBP20.9 million profit (US$37 million) for the 10 months ended Feb. 29 on sales of GBP1.27 billion ($2.25 billion). The figures compare with a profit of GBP15.7 million on sales of GBP1.4 billion in the previous financial year. Virgin Atlantic had to change its fiscal year from ending in April to February to conform with that of its shareholders, Virgin Group and Singapore Airlines.
