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.

Business Aviation Services Editor

Curt Epstein

For those flying business aircraft to Europe this summer and looking to avoid operational headaches at airports, flight-planning resource OpsGroup has condensed its normal individual country guides into one source this year.&nbsp;
<a href="https://ops.group/blog/maps-of-misery-europe-summer-parking-guide-2026/">Maps of Misery: Europe Summer Parking Guide 2026</a> provides aircraft operators with detailed information on ramp availability at the most popular airports, as well as recommended alternate repositioning locations in many of the jet-set vacation destinations such as Spain (including the Balearics), Greece, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), France, Portugal, and Croatia.
Segmented by region, the guide offers maps listing airports and designating their parking availability as “Good, Not-so-bad, or Ugly,” helping users make educated decisions about the trade-offs they may need to make in terms of proximity to desired locations.&nbsp;Sprinkled in are regulations regarding parking request window timing and key operational details about each airport, such as slot requirements.
The group warns that the situations at these airports can change rapidly, and that while its maps “come with absolutely no warranty whatsoever,” it will work to keep them updated.

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