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.
A fine-tuned business model, improved processes, more mature internal structures and more efficient hub operations in Dubai could make Emirates an even greater threat to European and Asian legacy airlines.
Jens Flottau (Frankfurt), Max Kingsley-Jones (Brussels)
Fending off new competition from Emirates and other Persian Gulf carriers will have to become a crucial part of strategies at European legacy airlines.
