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.

Senior Editor

Curt Epstein

European airports saw 77,197 business aviation departures last month, an increase of 5 percent year-over-year, according to the statistics released today by Germany-based data provider WingX Advance. Of the six top markets, Germany saw the largest increase in departures for the month, up 8 percent from last October, followed by the UK at 3 percent, France and Switzerland at 5 percent each, and Spain at 11 percent, while Italian departures saw nominal growth.

 


In October, jets constituted 60 percent of the business aviation flights, and jet activity was up 4 percent year-over-year, led by the super-light and super-midsize segments, which gained 9 percent and 12 percent, respectively. Large jet flights increased by 1 percent.

 


Last month, business aviation flights within Europe rose by 4.9 percent year-over-year, while transatlantic departures were up by 10 percent. Overall, year-to-date European business aircraft activity is up by 3.2 percent.

European Bizav Logs October Increase

The more than 77,000 departures from European airports represents a five percent rise year over year, led by small and midsize jets.

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