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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Shortly after announcing plans to accept delivery of another 10 ex-Comair Canadair Regional Jets, St. George, Utah-based SkyWest Airlines negotiated a revision to its code-share contract with Delta Air Lines that will allow it to fly exclusively under a fee-per-departure arrangement. Now flying 15 CRJs under a contract-style agreement and seven under a pro-rate formula, SkyWest will shift the revenue sharing mechanism now applied to those seven CRJs and all 17 of its Delta Connection Embraer Brasilias to a “revenue-neutral” arrangement on October 1 and January 1, respectively. Still expecting three more CRJs from a previous deal for five “remarketed” airplanes from Comair, SkyWest expects deliveries of all 13 of its remaining Delta-assigned airplanes on order by the end of this year. Delta has yet to reveal specific deployment plans for the latest 10 CRJs, but acknowledged that most would not fly out of its Salt Lake City hub, raising the intriguing likelihood of a new base of operations for SkyWest.

SkyWest Signs New Deals with Delta, Bombardier

Shortly after announcing plans to accept delivery of another 10 ex-Comair Canadair Regional Jets, St.

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