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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Boeing’s delays in delivering its much heralded 787 appears to have breathed new life into the near moribund 767 program, as the 787’s launch customer, Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA), has drawn up a contingency plan that involves the delivery and introduction of nine Boeing 767-300ERs into its fleet to cover interim needs for lift. Yesterday the ANA Board of Directors outlined a new delivery schedule that calls for the original order for 50 Boeing 787s, but one that changes the original planned delivery from May 2008 to August 2009 and the delivery rate from some seven aircraft a year until 2015 to approximately six airplanes each year until 2017.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
According to ANA, delays range from 14 to 36 months per aircraft, resulting in an average setback of two years.
ANA expects to introduce the nine 767-300ER in Fiscal Years 2010 and FY2011. It said it would also revise the retirement schedule of its present fleet and its maintenance schedule. ANA accounted for the delay to the delivery of the 787 in its 2008 Corporate Plan; hence, it foresees no change to the outlook for the current fiscal year as announced on April 30, 2008. However, the plan did not consider the effects of the machinists strike at Boeing, now entering it third week.

ANA Outlines 787 Contingency

Boeing’s delays in delivering its much heralded 787 appears to have breathed new life into the near moribund 767 program, as the 787’s launch customer, Jap

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