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.
Competitors of Emirates Airline, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways have to dig deep into capacity statistics to find markets where the mighty Persian Gulf carriers are not succeeding. The good news is that there are some, but the bad news is that where it really counts, these airlines’ growth rates are still frightening to the rest of the world.
FlyBE will perform another restructuring that includes route and job cuts and changes to the airline’s fleet, despite the progress the company has made with its previous turnaround efforts.
International Airlines Group (IAG) is upbeat about the restructuring progress at its struggling subsidiary Iberia. The Spanish airline posted a €74 million ($99 million) operating profit in the third quarter of 2013, which is equivalent to a 6.2% operating margin. “We took the right decisions at Iberia and we are seeing slightly better yield and revenue performance,” IAG CEO Willie Walsh said last week during IAG’s third quarter earnings call.
