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.
The conditions attached to the European Commission's clearance of the Air France/KLM deal are not "particularly troublesome or material" to the two airlines, JP Morgan's airline analyst Chris Avery believes.
The SAS Group posted significantly worse results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2003, as a restructuring started last year took effect and revenues at main unit Scandinavian Airlines plunged. The results were below the expectations of most analysts and shares were down 4.6% in afternoon trading.
Swiss plans to drop its order for 15 Embraer -195s, company sources told The DAILY, and is now in talks with Embraer to restructure the order. According to the sources, Swiss wants to replace the -195s with smaller Embraer -190s. The first -190 was rolled out earlier this week at the manufacturer's Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, plant (DAILY, Feb. 10).
