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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
While benefitting from a strong brand and loyal customer base, van der Werff said SAS had been “inward-looking” as it dealt with recent challenges.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
GE Aviation and Safran have defined the framework for developing their future technology as Pratt and Rolls prepare their own path.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Airbus could see its narrowbody production being disrupted “at short notice” as German union IG Metall is preparing for so-called “warning strikes” in the escalating dispute over the future of aerostructures subsidiary Premium Aerotec.
Aircraft & Propulsion