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.
Brazil’s Synergy Group is still exploring ways to invest in a European airline and TAP Portugal and LOT Polish Airlines are serious candidates for an investment, according to Synergy Chairman German Efromovich. “We might put an offer in for TAP if the conditions are still the same as a year ago,” Efromovich told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board meeting in Vienna/Austria. “But you need two partners to agree to a marriage.”
By the logic of “bigger is better,” Alaska Airlines should be in real trouble. It operates a modestly sized fleet from a relatively small home market with a business model somewhere between a low-fare carrier and legacy airline. Seattle-based Alaska, however, proves that logic does not always apply.
Next year should be the most profitable ever for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicts. IATA upped its profit forecast for 2013 and 2014 based on several beneficial factors. The group believes that the industry will post a combined net profit of $19.7 billion in 2014, $3.3 billion higher than the last forecast in September. This year is also going to be better than expected as profits will rise to $12.9 billion, up from the previous prediction of $11.7 billion.
