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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With the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Europe a chokepoint in its widespread adoption, World Fuel Services (WFS) and Neste have signed an agreement that will increase the former’s supply of SAF available to distribute.&nbsp;“We are excited to expand our collaboration with World Fuel as we increase our annual [SAF] production capacity to 1.5 million tons per annum by the end of 2023,” said Alexander Kueper, Neste’s v-p for the EMEA region in the company’s renewable aviation business unit.
Under the agreement, WFS predicts a 20-fold increase in the volume of SAF it will deliver this year versus&nbsp;2022 as it expands the number of European airports where it can now supply SAF from 13 to more than 40.&nbsp;Further leveraging of WFS’s distribution network&nbsp;could pave the way to providing accessibility of SAF at the more than 100 locations in its European network, it added.
“We...have created a framework that enables us to more reliably provide our customers across Europe with SAF in a timely and expedient manner,” explained Duncan Storey, WFS’s v-p of European aviation supply. “We are confident this agreement and deeper collaboration with Neste will serve to accelerate our ability to support customers in their decarbonization ambitions across the globe.”

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