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), Neelam Mathews (New Delhi)
As the world's largest travel market--and largest economy--the U.S. can exert enormous economic and political weight on airline operations. Other nations have little choice but to go along, or be banned from the lucrative U.S. market. Although they remain high on security alert levels, European airlines are complaining massively about new U.S. security regulations that they consider often unnecessary, badly implemented, sometimes redundant and conflicting with their national laws.
Members of British GMB union have voted in favor of going on strike to push through wage increases at British Airways. The union represents 2,600 baggage handlers and check-in agents. The earliest possible day for a strike would be Aug. 23, GMB said Friday.
Revenues and profits of Frankfurt's airport operator Fraport AG for the first half of 2004 exceeded analysts' expectations, as the company made a EUR59 million (US$ 73 million) net profit on EUR943 million (US$1.1 billion) in sales, up 17.5% and 7.5%, respectively, over last year. While passenger traffic increased significantly from last year, 13% for the group and 8.2% in Frankfurt only, the weak U.S.-dollar affected the operator's retail business as intercontinental passengers lost 11% in purchasing power.
