Jens Flottau

Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation

Frankfurt

Summary

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week'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

Jens Flottau (Istanbul and Frankfurt)
Europe's legacy carriers could be facing a serious threat in Turkish
Air Transport

Jens Flottau (Berlin), Tony Osborne (Berlin)
Decides smaller may be better for Cassidian defense unit

Jens Flottau
Airbus might need more production capacity for the A350 but has not yet made a decision, EADS CEO Tom Enders said yesterday at the company’s annual news conference in Berlin. “If we see the need for additional capacity, we will look at the business case and then decide.”
Air Transport