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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Curt Epstein

For World Fuel Services, NBAA's annual convention is an ideal opportunity for it to showcase its growing sustainability initiatives. The Miami-based company, which earlier this year participated in two major demonstrations of the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—at Los Angeles-area Van Nuys Airport in January and the UK's Farnborough Airport in May ahead of EBACE—will be supplying Las Vegas-area Henderson Executive Airport, host of the NBAA-BACE 2019 static display, with a shipment of SAF.

 


The company expects approximately 150,000 gallons of the fuel will be consumed in relation to the NBAA show. Since 2015, World has delivered more than 13.6 million gallons of SAF to&nbsp;commercial and business aviation customers.

 


“We’ve been at the forefront of sustainability and alternative fuels for the aviation industry,” said Mike Szczechowski, World’s senior v-p of business and general aviation. “It all started with the supply of SAF.”

 


As an exhibitor, World Fuel (Booth N4702) is also ensuring that its energy requirements at the Las Vegas Convention Center, transportation, and hotel accommodations for its staff will come from either sustainable sources or be covered by the purchase of carbon offset credits arranged by its own in-house division, Kinect Energy Group, which provides turnkey sustainability solutions across a wide range of industries.

 


"As part of enhancing our sustainability offering for business aviation, we now have global capabilities of our Kinect Energy Group business to complement our fuel supply and aviation services," added Szczechowski

 


Showgoers can learn more about SAF and lower carbon energy sourcing at AIN’s <a href="http://connect.ainonline.com/saf-nbaa-2019">Sustainable Aviation Fuels luncheon</a> on Wednesday,&nbsp;October&nbsp;23 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the convention center. World Fuel is the title sponsor.

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