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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When customers update a task, Universal’s mission advisors are notified instantly. Operators can view task descriptions, ownership, priority, and status; drag and drop sensitive documents such as passports with ISO 27001-aligned security; and add comments for context or respond directly through uvGO.&nbsp;The addition of Tasks allows users to maintain a complete, searchable audit trail without having to dig through email inboxes.
Starting October 25, the new system will be introduced with no additional cost to Universal mission-managed clients with active uvGO accounts. Operators who prefer to continue using emails are free to do so, and Universal expects the functionality to be available through the uvGO iPad application by year-end.
“For decades, email has been the backbone of mission support—but also its biggest bottleneck and where critical tasks can be dropped,” explained Craig Mabray, senior v-p for Universal Trip Support Services. “For the first time, operators and our mission advisors can collaborate on Universal-managed trips in real time, in one secure platform, without sifting through endless email chains.”

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