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 government of the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales has voted to grant further concessions to its regional airlines by extending its single-operator protection program to include denser regional routes. Under the revised plan, the state will waive license fees and extend operating licenses from three to five years for all routes traveled by fewer than 50,000 passengers. Before the changes, the concessions applied to routes that were traveled by fewer than 20,000 passengers per year. Transport minister Carl Scully told the New South Wales parliament in Sydney that the towns of Griffith, Lismore, Moree, Orange, Taree and Lord Howe Island had all joined the list of 31 designated communities as a result of the changes. Blaming both local and federal governments for cost pressures related to fuel taxes, landing and navigation fees and regulatory burdens, Scully vowed to continue to lobby legislators to pass measures aimed at promoting the economic health of regional airlines in Australia.

Regionals Update: Government waivers a boon to Aussie regionals

The government of the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales has voted to grant further concessions to its regional airlines by extending its sin

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