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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Signature Aviation—which has more than 200 locations in its worldwide FBO network—has ended its flight representation at Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS). While it did not operate an actual FBO or office there, Signature had in the past stationed employees at the airport to meet arriving private flights, assist customers through customs, and help them with any departure issues.
But the discrepancy in traffic levels between Changi and the dedicated private aviation airport Seletar (WSSL) proved too much to justify the activity and expense.&nbsp;
“Changi is so commercial airline-focused that it's very challenging to operate out of that facility,” said Signature CEO Tony Lefebvre. “The traffic preference is clearly going into Seletar, it's closer to the city as well so it just makes sense.”
According to industry data tracker WingX Advance, more than 93 percent of the nearly 4,800 private aviation flights into Singapore last year landed at Seletar.
While Signature does not have a presence at Seletar, it does supply sustainable aviation fuel to the Bombardier service center there. Though it has a partnership with a local operator where it can refer its customers’ flights, the company is keeping an eye on the airport.
“I’d say it’s an area that we are interested in, and for the right opportunity we would pursue it,” Lefebvre told AIN.

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