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
FARNBOROUGH — Airbus believes most airlines will order the larger variant of the just-launched Airbus A330neo, but has not considered dropping the

By Jens Flottau
FARNBOROUGH — Bombardier Aerospace now has 513 orders and commitments for its CSeries, with an order for five aircraft from an unidentified customer

By Jens Flottau
Air Mauritius has selected the Airbus A350 as its new longhaul aircraft type. The airline placed an order for four A350-900s and will lease an