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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
Christoph Debus, managing director of finance and human resources at German leisure airline Condor, has accepted a job on the executive board of Air Berlin, industry sources tell The DAILY. Debus, 37, is expected to join Air Berlin in the next few weeks, but his role is said to be not yet finally defined.

Jens Flottau
Fractional ownership provider NetJets signed an agreement last week to buy Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation field just south of Frankfurt International. The field is considered key to improving access to the German banking capital, as well as the economically important Rhein/Main region.

Robert Wall (Paris), Jens Flottau (Frankfurt)
Fuel hedging is starting to look attractive again to some European airlines, even though others placed bad bets that have left them paying higher-than-needed prices at the pump.