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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Latin American airline group AviancaTaca signed a firm purchase order for 15 ATR 72-600s last month and reserved options on another 15 of the new turboprops. Potentially worth $700 million, the contract calls for deliveries to start in June. 
Formed by the merger of Colombia’s Avianca and El Salvador’s Taca in 2010, AviancaTaca plans to use the new ATRs to replace its Fokker 50s and aging ATR 42s now in operation with both airlines. Avianca expects to fly the ATR 72-600s to Colombian destinations including Barrancabermeja, Florencia, Manizales, Neiva, Pasto, Popayán, Tumaco and Yopal. Plans for Taca call for services to San Salvador and Managua, Guatemala City and Flores, Guatemala; the Honduran cities of Tegucigalpa, Roatán and San Pedro Sula; and San José and Liberia in Costa Rica. 
Some 150 ATR turboprops now fly in Latin American liveries, while another 50 await delivery to the region.

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