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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.

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Articles

Jens Flottau (Madrid)
LAN Airlines expects its unique business model to get it through the current industry downturn in good shape, as the carrier benefits from the diversification strategy it developed during the past 10 years. “The first quarter of 2009 will still be reasonably good and we will still grow this year,” says President/CEO Enrique Cueto. Last year, LAN managed to significantly grow revenues and profits. The carrier is one of few worldwide with an investment-grade rating, which makes loans cheaper for it than for most of its competitors.

Jens Flottau
Air Berlin could soon reach an agreement to take over parts of all of rival leisure carrier TUIfly. Germany’s second-largest airline and travel group TUI are understood to have cleared most of the hurdles in their negotiations, but need to sort out some final details.

Jens Flottau
Russian carrier Transaero is launching services from Moscow Domodedovo to Magadan, in the country’s Far East. The airline introduced a twice-weekly roundtrip this week. Transaero uses a Tupolev Tu-214 in a 184-seat, two class-configuration on the sector. Magadan is Transaero’s 13th destination.