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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Switzerland-based aviation services provider Executive Sky Flight Support (ESFS) has partnered with local ground handler Smart Aviation to offer FBO services at Cairo International Airport. The location will be available 24/7. “Egypt is the 29th biggest country in the world,” said Rushdi Zakaria, CEO of Smart Aviation, which also provides ground handling at 10 other airports in Egypt, as well as aircraft charter and air ambulance services. “Egypt is one of the most crowded countries with private and business aircraft” in the region, he added.

 


Services at the Cairo facility include hotel accommodations, ground transportation, catering, aircraft towing and cleaning, lav and water service, baggage handling, departure and passport control and passenger check-in. “We are really proud to announce our strategic partnership with Smart Aviation to start our FBO service in a great country like Egypt,” noted ESFS CEO Caled Iccaoui. “We consider this partnership as a humble start [with] impressive announcements to follow later.”

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Swiss Firm Partners with Smart Aviation on Cairo FBO

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