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
Airlines and lessors have one message for the manufacturer: Get on with it.

By Jens Flottau
In spite of the ongoing weakness of key oil economies, Qatar Airways does not expect to cut back on its planned capacity growth, according to Chief Executive Akbar Al-Baker.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
The two manufacturers are trying to quickly eliminate root causes of a rash of engine replacements in the A320neo fleets of IndiGo and Go Air.
Air Transport