Sebastian Vogt

Sebastian covered the aviation desk at Süddeutsche Zeitung for five years before leaving in 2023 to write independently. His specialty is the European low-cost carrier industry, which he covers with the slightly weary skepticism of someone who has read fifteen Ryanair annual reports and can spot a load-factor manipulation at fifty paces.

He writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, two pieces a month focused on European LCCs, secondary airports, and the unromantic reality of low-fare flying as practiced in the EU since the late nineties. His beat is the value-versus-price math that most aviation writing ignores in favor of the front of the cabin.

He lives in Friedrichshain, flies BER because it’s BER and he has to defend it sometimes in print, and considers it a small personal accomplishment that he has never paid for priority boarding.