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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All four of Delta Air Lines’ regional affiliates benefited from the company’s continuing network realignment last month, as Delta concentrates ever more intently on “rationalizing” capacity and cutting costs with regional jets. 
Just as it prepared to take delivery of its first two new 50-seat CRJs since last February, Cincinnati-based Comair learned it would add three round-trip flights from its new base in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to both Corpus Christi, Texas, and Indianapolis, starting February 7. Comair will also add a round trip each to Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia from its Cincinnati hub, starting February 15.
In the Northeast, Atlantic Coast Airlines plans to expand its Boston operation with new Fairchild 328JET service to Portland and Bangor, Maine, and Montreal, starting February 1. ACA also added a single round trip on one of its 32-seat jets from Cincinnati to New York La Guardia and Tennessee’s Tri-City Airport on December 1.
In the South, Atlantic Southeast Airlines on December 1 replaced Embraer Brasilias with CRJs on all service from its Atlanta hub to Evansville, Ind., Dothan, Ala., and Albany, Ga. It plans to use one of those 30-seat turboprops to open a new route between Atlanta and Mississippi’s Golden Triangle Airport on January 31.
Finally, St. George, Utah-based SkyWest Airlines continued its expansion in Dallas/Fort Worth with three round trips between its new base and Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem, N.C.

Regionals Update: Delta Connection accelerates realignment

All four of Delta Air Lines’ regional affiliates benefited from the company’s continuing network realignment last month, as Delta concentrates ever more in

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