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.
Jens Flottau (Frankfurt), Max Kingsley-Jones (Brussels)
Fending off new competition from Emirates and other Persian Gulf carriers will have to become a crucial part of strategies at European legacy airlines.
A group of major airlines in the U.S. and Europe is stepping up efforts to get rid of export credit guarantees for foreign carriers. The alliance—made up of the U.S. Air Transport Association (ATA) and nine European airlines, including British Airways, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa—is understood to be close to agreeing on the precise language of their demands within the next few days. They plan to raise the issue through negotiations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
