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 Teamsters-represented pilots of Seattle-based Horizon Air ratified a new five-year labor contract in late November, officially ending some four years of negotiations, the airline announced last month. Nearly 77 percent of Horizon’s 613 pilots voted, and some 59 percent of those voted in favor of the agreement.
 The new contract includes “dramatic” improvements in work conditions, including a provision under which the pilots will write their own schedules and trips, according to the Teamsters. The sides also agreed to a scheduling process that allows pilots to trade and manage their schedules with each other. The agreement also included “significant” ratification bonuses and a process for submitting pay rates in two separate “baseball style” arbitrations. 
 Horizon’s pilot contract became ­amendable in September 2006. Last January both ­Horizon and the Teamsters requested federal mediation to resolve open items. The sides reached an agreement in principle in June and a tentative agreement in September.

Horizon Pilots Ratify New Contract

The Teamsters-represented pilots of Seattle-based Horizon Air ratified a  new five-year labor contract in late November, officially ending some  four years

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