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

With more than 2,000 attendees preparing to head to San Jose, Calif., next week for the annual NBAA Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference, the show’s advisory council is hoping they’ll clean our their closets before they come. For the fifth straight year, the conference will be conducting its “Pay It Forward” clothing drive, which will collect gently used business attire at the show’s registration area for donation to local charities, such as Dress for Success, in the host city.

 


Starting with just 67 garments collected in 2011 in Savannah, the aircraft schedulers and dispatchers community increased its response to the drive nearly tenfold, delivering 649 garments last year in New Orleans, according to advisory council chair Debbi Laux, MedAire’s director of trade relations. Last year’s show also collected $1,500 in donations.

 


Before the start of this year’s event, industry apparel provider Shirt Boy and Landmark Aviation each committed to donating 200 new blouses, while World Fuel Services will provide 400 dress shirts. Signature Flight Support will sponsor a pedometer contest to determine who walks the most during the course of the show, with all proceeds going to Pay it Forward.

NBAA Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference Looks to 'Pay it Forward'

Clothing drive will collect gently-used business attire at the show’s registration area for donation to local charities in host city San Jose, Calif.

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