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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SEA Prime—which operates Milano Linate Prime, the FBO at Milan Linate Airport—expects to complete construction on a sister location at the city’s Malpensa Airport by May 2019. The company already operates a 5,000-sq-m (53,820-sq-ft) hangar there, which can accommodate the latest ultra-long-range business jets, and it is building a new 1,400-sq-m (15,000-sq-ft) polyhedron-shaped terminal, which will be visible and recognizable from any direction both on the ground and in the air. The FBO will also have an expanded, dedicated 50,000-sq-m (536,000-sq-ft) apron.

 


Last year, SEA Prime noted a net profit increase of 10 percent over 2016, reflecting the recovery in the European business aviation sector, according to the company. Milano Linate Prime saw more than 21,000 movements last year, an increase of 2.7 percent year-over-year, making it the busiest FBO in Italy, and among the leaders in Europe.

 


“Milano Prime has proven to be an increasingly attractive partner for national and international players, who choose us to develop their business,” said general manager Chiara Dorigotti. “This pushes us to further improve and expand the range of services offered to our customers, also by building new, dedicated infrastructures.” As such, she noted the company has pledged to invest another €21 million ($24.4 million) in the two locations over the next five years.

 


Next year, the company plans to add a 4,000-sq-m (43,000-sq-ft) hangar at Linate, its 11th, bringing it to 28,000 sq m (301,000 sq ft) of under-roof space. Earlier, helicopter maker Leonardo added a maintenance base at the FBO, providing dedicated line service for the AW109 and AW139.

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