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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St. George, Utah-based SkyWest plans to return to Delta Air Lines another 24 fifty-seat Bombardier CRJ200s by the end of this December as part of the transition to 34 larger, dual-class jets specified by a new <a href="http://ainonline.com/aviation-news/2012-08-02/delta-skywest-reach-new-rj-arrangement">Delta Connection agreement signed in August last year</a>. Under the terms of the deal, it added five 66-seat Bombardier CRJ700s and 29 seventy-six-seat CRJ900s to its Delta Connection network by the end of this past May and transferred 22 CRJ200s to its American Eagle network by June 30. It also removed another two CRJ200s from service altogether. 
Plans call for SkyWest’s 18 remaining Delta-branded CRJ200s to exit its fleet in 2015 and 2016.

SkyWest To Shed 24 CRJ200s by Year-End

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