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
Airlines have seen fast growth since 2010, victims of their own success as fight against climate change moves to forefront.
Sustainability

By Jens Flottau
Embraer ended 2019 with promising E175-E2 first flight, but 2020 uncertainties include pending EU approval of Boeing commercial JV.

By Jens Flottau
In a way, Boeing's production facility in Renton, Washington and Embraer’s Sao José dos Campos site will look very similar in January 2020.
Air Transport