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
As videos posted on social media immediately after the Emirates Flight 521 landing accident show, many of the passengers were in no particular hurry to leave an airplane on fire.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Air Berlin’s second-quarter operating loss quadrupled, adding to the pressure to find new sources of funding soon.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Sun Express is reallocating capacity away from its home market in Turkey to mitigate the negative effects of terrorist attacks and the July attempted coup.
Air Transport