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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Malaysian Airlines has signed a deal with Canada’s Viking Air to take six new 19-seat Twin Otter Series 400s for use in scheduled service by its regional subsidiary MASwings. Viking plans to deliver all the airplanes by the end of next year. 
MASwings will launch service with the new airplanes from its regional/commuter base of Kota Kinabalu on the west coast of Sabah state. There, the new aircraft will join MASwings’ existing fleet of three legacy de Havilland Canada Twin Otters and serve the airline’s theater of operations in the interior of Sabah and Sarawak, the two Malaysian states in Borneo. MASwings also operates 10 ATR 72-500s and holds an order for 13 new ATR 72-600s.
The sale adds the first flag carrier to Viking Air’s list of customers and marks the first commitment by a Malaysian customer for the new airplane, which has now drawn orders from operators in 19 countries.

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