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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“I think we’ve come a long way in the last year,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen yesterday during the opening session of the eighth annual JetNet iQ Summit. He described how the organization, with support from the other aviation alphabet groups, was able to fend off two attempts in the past year to give control of the nation’s air traffic control system to the airlines, as part of the FAA reauthorization bill.

 


“Of course we’re still not done with that bill yet,” he told the audience, adding that the Senate is expected to bring its bill to the floor next month. “I do think if we can get the legislative bills behind us and get some stability over the next four or five years that there are a lot of other great and important challenges for our industry to face,” among them attracting and retaining skilled talent, implementing NextGen, and reducing the industry's environmental footprint.

 


Pete Bunce, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, warned against complacency, noting that the airlines are already strategizing for their next move on advancing ATC privatization. “This will never go away, but this is job security for us,” he quipped.

NBAA Chief Looks Ahead to FAA Reauthorization

At the annual JetNet iQ Summit, Bolen along with GAMA president Pete Bunce described how industry engagement derailed ATC privatization plans.

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