Jens Flottau

Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation

Frankfurt, Germany

Summary

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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.

Articles

By Jens Flottau
Women are rarely found in air transport leadership positions, and IATA has finally recognized this problem. Now it needs to follow up with action.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Airlines are faced with much higher costs than they anticipated. They can counteract that through higher revenues and fares—they hope.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Making the Bombardier C Series and the Airbus A320neo family “an integrated family of aircraft” is “a key strategic objective" of the new partnership between the two manufacturers in the program, Airbus Group CFO Harald Wilhelm said.
Air Transport