Gregory Polek
Senior Editor
Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with New Jersey Monthly magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for Aviation International News in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.
Latest from Gregory Polek
Aircraft
CRJ900 May Grow Yet Again
Bombardier’s proposal to build a three-row stretch follow-on of its 86-seat CRJ900 not only begs the question why, but perhaps more immediately, how.
Aircraft
Libya enters new jet age
Airbus placed itself in a position to land the first significant civil aircraft order from a Libyan airline in 30 years when it signed a memorandum of unde
Airbus gets to grips with wire woes
Regardless of how massive the project, there’s no escaping the devil in the detail, as Airbus knows all too well since it announced the second major delay
EADS boss is sick of nationalism
EADS plans to appoint a British board member in the event BAE Systems goes forward with its sale of its 20-percent stake in the European conglomerate, comp
Aircraft
Indian airline GoAir takes 10 Airbus A320s
Indian low-fare airline GoAir inked a deal yesterday with Airbus for 10 CFM-powered A320-family jets and an option for another 10.
Aircraft
Airbus to woo carriers with A350 extras
New Airbus boss Christian Streiff yesterday issued a firm declaration of his intent to restore the company’s market credibility by unveiling the long-await
Aircraft
R.I.P. for Airbus A300/A310
Thirty-five years of A300/A310 manufacturing will come to an end next July, when Airbus hands over the last A300-600 on order.
EADS confronts credibility crisis over Airbus program delays
EADS executives can talk all they want about refusing to allow the Farnborough airshow to dictate the timing of their decisions, but in their current predi
Rejuvenated Parker Aero enters show a roll
Parker Aerospace (Hall 4 Stand A16) returns to Farnborough International this year rejuvenated by a string of recent contract signings and the opening of a
Goodrich positions itself at hub of show, industry
Situated literally at the center of the show site, Goodrich Corp.
Aircraft
Airbus awaits answer on new A380 wake proposal
Airbus has issued a new “conservative and interim” recommendation for A380 separation minimums backed by 100 hours of flight testing performed in Toulouse,
Aircraft
Airbus revives freighter fracas
Airbus A380 director of product marketing Richard Carcaillet hasn’t let go unanswered the potshots taken by his Boeing counterpart, Randy Baseler, whose In
Aircraft
Airbus offers help recycling airliners
Now that the first Airbus aircraft built in the 1970s are reaching the end of their useful lives, for the first time in its history the company must consid
Aircraft
Airbus takes measured approach to A320 update
A pair of six-foot-tall appendages sprouting from the wingtips of an A320 immediately caught the attention of plane spotters scanning the ramp outside Airb
Aircraft
Bombardier Aero ponders next move
Canada’s Bombardier Aerospace (Hall 3 Stand D8) enters this Farnborough show with some critical questions to answer about the future of its regional airlin
Aircraft
E-195 certification opens new chapter for Embraer
Brazil’s Embraer passes another critical milestone in its meteoric development this month with EASA certification of the largest of its four-member family
Regulations and Government
Arnie takes a swing at plans for user fees
Golfing legend Arnold Palmer took a shot at the airlines’ proposal to institute a user fee system to fund the nation’s air traffic system during the conven
Charter & Fractional
ExpressJet moving into corporate charter
Houston-based regional airline ExpressJet announced here at NBAA’06 that it planned to open a new division to fly corporate charter services using 10 Embra
Aircraft
Embraer inks deals for dozens of Phenom jets
The meteoric sales pace set by Embraer for its new line of very light jets only gained more momentum at this year’s NBAA Convention, as the Brazilian manuf
It’s official: NBAA’06 a record show
Everybody suspected it would happen, and yesterday NBAA made it official: the show’s eight-year-old attendance record fell, as organizers counted 31,919 re
Refurb demand buoys Stork’s Fokker Services
A surge of orders for executive conversions of airliners and projections for continued buoyancy in the business aviation market at large has convinced Stor
Engines
Rolls-Royce sees a need for 51,000 engines by 2025
Continued vigorous growth in business jet deliveries, particularly among midsize and large jets, will generate $70 billion worth of revenue for the engine
Safety
API, Waypoint team on risk management
Aviation Personnel International (API) and Waypoint Partners have collaborated to launch a risk-management service for flight departments called the Accele
Four years later, Porter launches Toronto service
It took some deft political maneuvering, arm-twisting, wheeling, dealing and more than anything a lot of waiting, but Porter Airlines finally got airborne
Aircraft
Embraer sells 20 Phenoms
The VLJ juggernaut showed no sign of slowing as Embraer landed another firm order for its line of very light jets, this time from Clearwater, Fla.-based Av
Embraer To Miss Delivery Target
Production line snags have forced Embraer to reduce its delivery forecast this year from 145 to 135, the company revealed last month.
Comair Gets Heavy-duty Nod
Comair’s Cincinnati maintenance and repair facilities received FAA approval to perform third-party heavy maintenance on other airlines’ 50- and 70-seat Bom
Aircraft
Island Air Grounds Q400
Excess capacity created by Mesa Air Group’s Go! unit has forced Hawaii’s largest turboprop island hopper, Island Air, to ground its Bombardier Q400 only fi
Maintenance and Modifications
Embraer now must sell its service
Not new to supporting airline customers the world over, Embraer must nevertheless convince the business aviation community about its seriousness in competi
