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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European regional airlines strengthened their ties with their major airline counterparts from across the Atlantic last month, when Italy’s Air Dolomiti signed a code-share contract with United Airlines, and the UK’s Flybe entered a similar agreement with Continental Airlines.
Under its contract with Air Dolomiti, United placed its code on more than 40 daily flights operated by the Italian regional, giving it access to eight new destinations in Italy. Code-share flights operated by Air Dolomiti connect with United flights into and out of Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt and Munich. One of Lufthansa Airlines’ largest regional partners, Air Dolomiti flies five 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200s, twelve 46-seat ATR 42s and six 64-seat ATR 72s from its primary base in Verona, Italy, and on point-to-point services between various Italian cities and European destinations.
Meanwhile, Exeter, UK-based Flybe this fall plans to add Continental’s designator code on its flights from London Gatwick to Belfast City Airport and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and from Birmingham to Belfast City, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland and Shannon, Ireland. Continental will include Flybe’s code on services between Newark International Airport and Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester. Although the code-share deal still needs government approval, the airlines entered a reciprocal frequent-flier agreement on October 1.

Regionals Update: Air Dolomiti signs with United, Flybe and Continental

European regional airlines strengthened their ties with their major airline counterparts from across the Atlantic last month, when Italy’s Air Dolomiti sig

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