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.

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Articles

By Jens Flottau
Airbus will likely operate two types of outsize cargo aircraft—the Beluga and Beluga XL—given rising narrowbody-production rates, the airframer says.

By Jens Flottau
Airbus has suffered a setback in its A320neo flight-test program, following discovery of what it calls “minor damage” to one test aircraft’s engine.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
More policy guidance is needed to prepare for establishing a global market-based measure (MBM) to tackle aviation-carbon emissions.
Air Transport