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 annual World Economic Forum (WEF) taking place once again this week in Davos, Switzerland, Jet Aviation’s FBO at Zurich Airport (LSZH) will once again be providing sustainable aviation fuel for departing aircraft.
The company was the first to make sustainable aviation fuel available in Switzerland for the 2020 WEF. Since then, it has had physical SAF on hand during these conferences since 2023, with a book-and-claim option in 2022.
WEF, which runs through Friday, typically attracts scores of private flights to the area’s airports, and the Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel is encouraging aircraft operators and delegations traveling to Davos-Klosters to contact their fuel providers and FBOs to secure SAF or use book-and-claim where it is not physically available.
“We are delighted to be able to offer SAF on-site again during the [WEF] in Davos,” said Joao Martins, Jet Aviation’s v-p of FBO operations for Europe and general manager of its Zurich location. “SAF is an important part of supporting our industry’s efforts towards a more sustainable future.”
The global aviation services provider offers SAF at 13 locations worldwide and across its FBO network via a book-and-claim program, which enables operators to purchase SAF benefits in areas where the actual fuel is not yet available.

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