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

Charter aircraft operator All In Jets,&nbsp;doing business as Jet Ready, has filed Chapter 11 reorganization&nbsp;bankruptcy based on filings earlier this month in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court. The mainly large-cabin provider is based in Florida but has had its principal place of business&nbsp;or principal assets in the southern New York&nbsp;district for the past six months.

 


According to an industry source, the company operates a fleet of leased aircraft including four Gulfstream GIVs, two&nbsp;GIV-SPs, and a Bombardier Challenger 601-3A. Also affiliated with Jet Ready are three additional GIV-SPs, another GIV, and a pair of Hawker 800As. Most of the aircraft&nbsp;have liens against them.

 


In its August&nbsp;9 filing, it had&nbsp;assets of between $500,000 and $1 million and estimated liabilities of between $1 million and $10 million.

 


The company’s unsecured creditors span all aspects of business aviation, with the largest debt owed to Florida aviation law specialists Jarvis &amp; Associates ($758,258). Other major claimants include maintenance providers such as Just Jets Services ($504,084), fuel providers and FBOs—World Fuel Services ($513,777), Atlantic Aviation ($393,866),&nbsp;and Apex Jet Center ($151,848)—training provider&nbsp;CAE ($166,952), trip support provider&nbsp;Jetex ($129,654), OEM&nbsp;Gulfstream ($105,775), and fellow charter providers Jetright ($252,876) and Pegasus Elite Aviation ($123,820). Court documents also show nine other companies and agencies owed varying amounts between $62,653 and $132,926.

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