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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Small communities and regional turboprop operations received what some consider unexpectedly generous support for the Essential Air Service program in late July, when the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed a funding package worth $128 million as part of the fiscal year 2003 transportation bill. The proposal recommends $65 million in direct appropriations for EAS, $50 million in transfer funds from the FAA and another $13 million in leftover money from last year’s package. In all, the committee’s proposal would give the EAS program $15 million more than it received last year. 
Perhaps most gratifying to the Regional Airline Association, the proposal does not include proposed restrictions to eliminate communities subsidized over a $275-per-passenger cap, nor does it empower the DOT Secretary to disregard applications from communities eligible for service. 
The industry also received $20 million of a proposed $27.5 million grant for the small community air service development zone. Included in the AIR-21 legislation passed two years ago in an effort to draw regional jets to small communities, the program received $20 million in FY 2002 as well, after it failed to yield any funding in FY 2001.

Senate Appropriates $128 million for EAS

Small communities and regional turboprop operations received what some consider unexpectedly generous support for the Essential Air Service program in late

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