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.
Robert Wall (Ueberlingen, Germany), Jens Flottau (Augsburg, Germany)
Delays on major aerospace and defense programs are putting enormous financial strain on Germany’s top-tier suppliers at a time when they are having to ramp up to prepare for new big-ticket projects, most notably the Airbus A350 twin-widebody.
In 1997, more than 80 years of aerospace production seemed certain to end here, where airplanes have been built since 1913, but the fate of PFW Aerospace shows there is a future for smaller companies outside of large corporations such as EADS or its primary subsidiary, Airbus.
