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
Incoming MTU CEO Lars Wagner hopes to break CFM International’s Boeing 737 monopoly to power possible narrowbody successor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Lilium’s new CEO Klaus Roewe is confident the eVTOL manufacturer can freeze the production design next year and fly the Pegasus in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
Wizz Air sees deployment opportunities for “significantly more” than the 47 Airbus A321XLR aircraft it currently has on firm order, the airline’s President Robert Carey told attendees at the World Aviation Festival.
Airlines & Lessors