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.
Initially deployed on the Amsterdam-Abu Dhabi-Bahrain route, the aircraft is the first of 25 Boeing 787s that the airline—a unit of the Air France-KLM Group—plans to phase in. KLM recently decided to take six larger 787-10s and 19 -9s.
Weeks before Egypt is expected to deliver the preliminary report into the crash of a Metrojet Airbus A321 over the Sinai Peninsula, Russian officials say they have found traces of explosives in the wreckage.
