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 regional carrier Crossair was struggling late last week to secure SF1 billion ($610 million) in additional funds to be able to proceed with the integration of Swissair's European network by the end of the month.
European regional carriers are hoping they can benefit in the long term from a downsizing of the European airline industry, as they struggle to cope with the ongoing traffic slump.
Lack of situational awareness was believed, as of late last week, to be the most likely cause of the runway incursion accident at Milan's Linate airport, resulting in the crash of a Cessna Citation CJ2 business jet and an SAS Scandinavian Airlines MD-87--killing all 114 on both aircraft and four on the ground.
