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.
Troubled Swiss International Air Lines--successor to Swissair and Crossair--will downsize in a desperate attempt to halt massive losses. According to its original business plan, Swiss was expected to achieve profitability by the end of this year.
Fairchild Dornier's 728 regional program is tentatively scheduled to be restarted by the end of the year by D'Long International Strategic Investment. The Chinese group last week reached an agreement to buy the twinjet from the bankrupt manufacturer, negotiated with administrator Eberhard Braun.
Healthy traffic growth for regional airlines on both sides of the Atlantic is expected to resume--a trend that should help regional twinjet manufacturers strengthen their backlogs. In the short term, however, archrivals Embraer and Bombardier are trying to resolve a number of difficulties.
