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

International Corporate and Cargo Services (ICCS)—Mexico’s largest FBO chain—celebrated the grand opening of its second FBO at Toluca International Airport&nbsp;(MMTO) last night.
Since 2019, ICCS had an FBO at Toluca, Mexico’s busiest private aviation gateway, now home to more than 500 jets. It acquired a former Mexican government facility in 2022 and entirely gutted the 1980s-vintage building, transforming it into a state-of-the-art facility.
The three-story, 16,000-sq-ft terminal is sheathed in perforated steel paneling. It features three private passenger lounges; a 12-seat conference room on the second floor with a glass wall overlooking the ramp; an expansive pilot lounge with two snooze rooms and male and female shower facilities; a café; refreshment bars; a towering streetside porte-cochère; a rooftop garden/observation lounge; and a dedicated chauffeur lounge with restroom and pet rest area. It has separate rampside entrances for domestic and international arrivals, with in-house customs, immigration, security, and agriculture screening facilities built to government specifications, and 45 vehicle parking spaces.
ICCS is also launching its own dispatcher training program under certification of Mexico’s civil aviation authority, with a 24-seat state-of-the-art classroom on the third floor, along with tenant offices.
The FBO complex features ICCS Gourmet, a fully-equipped, restaurant-quality catering kitchen that can provide meals for guests in the terminal café, as well as custom in-flight provisioning for aircraft operators across the entire airport.
The adjoining 25,833-sq-ft (2,400-sq-m) hangar features a 40-foot door height and can shelter the latest ultra-long-range business jets.
“Toluca is one of the busiest in North America, and the most important in Mexico,” ICCS CEO Nelson Dumas told AIN, noting the opening ahead of the upcoming FIFA World Cup and its resulting traffic. “We knew all along that having a strong position [here] was mandatory and really strategic. Well, dreams come true.”

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