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&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;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&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;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.

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The former Maersk Air, reconstituted in a management buyout in June and renamed Duo, announced last month that it has severed its relationship with British Airways, after the UK flag carrier said it would cut in half its operations from Duo’s Birmingham, UK base. Flying as a BA franchisee for the past 10 years, Maersk/Duo will operate independently starting November 1, when it opens its own service from Birmingham to Berlin, Copenhagen, Geneva, Gothenburg, Lyon, Milan, Nice, Oslo, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Vienna with its three Bombardier CRJ200s and five CRJ700s. On the same day, Duo plans to establish a second base in Edinburgh, Scotland, from where it will fly to Milan, Geneva, Oslo and Zurich.
Less than a day after it revealed its plans to cut service from Birmingham, British Airways announced it would relaunch service from the Midlands airport to Stuttgart and Milan on October 26, this time with its wholly owned regional subsidiary, CitiExpress. The plan puts Duo and BA in direct competition on those routes, raising speculation that the airlines’ “amicable” separation could turn less cordial. CitiExpress, the result of BA’s consolidation of British Regional, Manx and Brymon Airways last year, projects an imposing presence in Birmingham, where it maintains a major hub.

Regionals Update: Midlands' duo to go solo

The former Maersk Air, reconstituted in a management buyout in June and renamed Duo, announced last month that it has severed its relationship with British

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