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.
Here is how Air Berlin can survive: Continue to cut costs, grow the long-haul network and everything will be fine eventually. But there are two problems for one of Europe's largest airlines: It does not have the necessary money to grow and, at the moment, there is not even an airport where the plan can be implemented.
The Airbus A350 is facing crucial milestones in the coming weeks, with final assembly of the first flight-test aircraft to start in September but wing assembly several weeks behind schedule. Airbus plans to confirm by the end of October the A350 schedule leading up to first flight. The wing is due to arrive that month for MSN1, the first flight-test aircraft.
Graham Warwick (Farnborough), Jens Flottau (Farnborough), Andy Nativi (Farnborough)
No fewer than five new intermediate- and medium-size helicopters were on show on the ground or in the air at Farnborough as manufacturers reported a healthy recovery in civil orders anchored by global sales to offshore-support operators.
