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
Lufthansa has become a fully private company again, after Germany’s economic stabilization fund WSF sold the remaining shares it held in the airline.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa said it has agreed a pay deal with Lufthansa mainline and Lufthansa Cargo pilots which rules out more strikes until the end of June 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Europe, or any other region for that matter, has overcome the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic with relatively few airline failures.
Airlines & Lessors