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
Gulf Air is in the final stages of defining its future strategy, now that the airline has fully transitioned operations back to its Bahrain home base.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
IATA is “quite concerned” about demand trends after the summer season, the association said at its annual general meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
IATA warns that the commercial aircraft fleet in China will continue to age in spite of recent large commitments for new aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors