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
The A380 program remains reliant on one customer as the secondhand market fails to take off.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Emirates Airline returned to its previous track record of profitability in the first half of its financial year 2017/18, having suffered a strong margin reduction in 2016.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Airbus is under the gun on many fronts, including executive battles and claims of corruption lodged in the UK and France and possibly Germany and the U.S.
Air Transport