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
Current market values of six-month-old Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A321s are about 50% of their new-list prices, while a year-old Airbus A319 should command about 43% of the manufacturer’s published-list price, analyses from three appraisers shows.

By Jens Flottau
In a deep restructuring of its network, Virgin Atlantic is shifting capacity from several long-haul markets to free up aircraft for more transatlantic

By Jens Flottau
Malmö Aviation, the carrier slated to be the initial Bombardier CSeries operator, has told the manufacturer that it no longer wants to be first in