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 Airways’ decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month officially placed the courts at the center of a restructuring exercise in which the development of the airline’s regional network has emerged as perhaps the most crucial component. 
Filed August 11 on behalf of US Airways and its four regional airline subsidiaries in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the petition “will allow US Airways to effect cost savings from aircraft lessors and financiers and other key stakeholders as a means of ensuring the company’s return to profitability,” said a company spokesperson. How the move affects the company’s ability to institute plans for its regional airline businesses remains unclear, although it will certainly delay the opening of its new MidAtlantic Airways subsidiary until at least next year’s first quarter. 
US Airways said it decided to file for Chapter 11 in part because of its failure to reach agreements with vendors to revise payment terms, and with lessors and financiers to reject surplus aircraft leases and return excess airplanes “within a timeframe necessary to complete an out-of-court restructuring.”
The airline spokesperson insisted the decision to file for Chapter 11 in

US Air bankruptcy puts onus on regional fleet

US Airways’ decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month officially placed the courts at the center of a restructuring exercise in which the devel

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