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
Airbus delivered a total of 61 commercial aircraft in August, slightly down from July when the company handed over 68 jets.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Jens Flottau
We will only know in hindsight, but it is very possible that Steven Udvar-Házy has been smarter than everyone else again by selling Air Lease Corporation now.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa’s last local rival wants better access to the dominant player’s feeder network, but legal precedents give little reason for optimism.
Airlines & Lessors