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 CityLine reached a tentative contract agreement with its 663 pilots in late February, narrowly averting a strike that threatened to derail the German company’s recovery from a pair of one-day strikes last May by Lufthansa mainline pilots. In mid-February CityLine pilots voted nearly unanimously in favor of a strike if the sides did not reach an agreement by the end of that month. Vereinigung Cockpit, the pilots’ labor union, sought to prevent salaries at the regional subsidiary from falling farther behind those of the mainline pilots, who reached an agreement last June after agreeing to raises based on German industry averages. If ratified, the new CityLine deal will apply retroactively to July 1, 2001, and extend through June 30, 2004.

Regionals Update: Lufthansa CityLine averts pilot strike with last-minute accord

Lufthansa CityLine reached a tentative contract agreement with its 663 pilots in late February, narrowly averting a strike that threatened to derail the Ge

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