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.
Airbus has named the six-strong flight crew for the first flight of the Airbus A350. Peter Chandler, the company’s chief test pilot, will be at the controls of MSN001, along with Guy Magrin, the A350 project pilot. The two will be accompanied in the cockpit by Pascal Verneau, the project’s test-flight engineer. Three experimental flight test engineers—Fernando Alonso, Patrick du Che and Emanuele Constanzo—will monitor the flight at test stations installed in the cabin.
Bombardier expects to double the size of the installed fleet in Africa over the next 3-5 years, according to Chet Fuller, senior vice president of sales and marketing. The fleet will then double again within an even shorter period of time, Fuller predicted on the eve of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general meeting in Cape Town. “Africa is shaping up to be a tremendous market,” Fuller says. Bombardier currently has 200 aircraft operating with 61 airlines in the region.
Bombardier is “guardedly optimistic” about being able to announce new sales for its CSeries narrowbody family at the Paris air show, Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing Chet Fuller said on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general meeting in Cape Town. However, the aircraft will not fly before the Paris air show, he says.
