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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US airlines continued to <a href="http://emailer.emailroi.com/r.pl?mzbC9hq9ank0kyZ2_f79a7c6d9a86b63a" target="_blank">post improved on-time performance numbers</a> in September—the third straight month they did so and beating the mark they set last year, according to Portland, Ore.-based FlightStats.com. The year-to-date numbers tell a similar story about the seven largest U.S. carriers, said the report, as all improved their performance last month with Southwest Airlines and Northwest Airlines leading the group in year-over-year progress.
In fact, September numbers scored the highest year-to-date, registering an overall on-time performance of more than 83.06 percent. Twenty four of the 38 U.S. carriers FlightStats tracked posted better than 80 percent on-time numbers for the month. Hawaiian Airlines topped the September list at 94.1 percent, followed by Frontier at 92.75 percent, Mesaba at 91.21 percent, Horizon at 91.2 percent and Virgin at 90.82 percent.

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