A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

SEA Prime, which manages the business and private aviation infrastructure at Italy’s Milan Linate and Milan Malpensa Airports through their Milano Prime business aviation terminals, noted 24,500 business and general aviation movements at the two airports in 2019 or an average of 70 per day. That includes the 5,300 movements that were rerouted to the new Malpensa terminal due to a three-month closure of Linate for a runway and taxiway renovation project. The totals, announced this week at Air Ops Europe 2020 in Brussels, made the Italian city the fifth most popular private aviation destination in Europe last year.

 


A new service launched at Malpensa five months ago has allowed more than 500 VIP commercial aviation passengers to transit the new private aviation terminal and enjoy the services and benefits normally reserved for private passengers.

 


“2019 was an important year for SEA Prime,” said CEO Chiara Dorigotti, citing the EBAA Safety Recognition Award that the company received in November at the European Safety Summit. “Moreover, thanks to the renewed partnership with BMW, which will provide [the company] with full electric vehicles in February 2020, continues the commitment towards sustainability of SEA Prime at both Milano Linate and Malpensa Airports.”

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