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
Singapore Airlines said it will base a decision on whether to extend leases for its existing fleet of Airbus A380s on demand trends as they emerge going into 2017.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
For Turkish airlines, recent political developments can only be described with one word: disastrous.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
SilkAir will take delivery of its final Boeing 737-800 in October, before its first 737-8 enters service in Sept. 2017, CEO Foo Chai Woo said.
Air Transport