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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Lufthansa Airlines absorbed the sales, marketing and ticketing functions of Team Lufthansa partner Augsburg Airways last month, completing a restructuring exercise that saw Olaf Dlugi replaced by new CEO Manfred Scholz and 144 employees lose their jobs at the Bavarian regional airline. The changes came at the behest of new investors from German paper company Haindl GmbH, the airline’s controlling shareholder. Scholz formerly served as head of finance and personnel at Haindl. 
Under the new arrangement, Augsburg now flies exclusively under the LH identifier code, having phased out all scheduled services not part of the Lufthansa network. In an effort to shave costs, the airline has dropped its smallest destinations, such as Friedrichshafen, Sylt and the Italian island of Elba, and removed six of its 18 de Havilland Dash 8s from service. Augsburg became the first Team Lufthansa member in 1996, 10 years after it opened for business as Interot Airways.

Augsburg Restructuring Costs 150 Workers, Dlugi Their Jobs

Lufthansa Airlines absorbed the sales, marketing and ticketing functions of Team Lufthansa partner Augsburg Airways last month, completing a restructuring 

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