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
Aviation Week editors discuss what is behind the tens of thousands of flights that have been delayed or canceled in the U.S. Northeast in recent weeks.
Check 6

By Jens Flottau
Less than three years after having been forced to file for bankruptcy, Norwegian is pressing ahead with another transformative move by buying Widerøe.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
The facility is set to consolidate all the demonstrator testing work around Airbus' various wing research and development projects.
Aircraft & Propulsion