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
Airbus and Boeing are not making progress in meeting their delivery dates, in particular for narrowbodies, according to Air Lease Corporation (ALC) Executive Chairman Steve Udvar-Hazy.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
German state fund WSF has sold its last stakes in Lufthansa. Now the real work to reposition the airline can begin.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Finnair, looking to profitably redeploy its widebody fleet after Russian airspace closure, is not the only Nordic airline in crisis mode.
Airlines & Lessors