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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Boeing and Turkish Airlines on Tuesday completed a firm order for forty 737 MAX 8s, ten 737 MAX 9s and twenty 737-800s, valued at $6.9 billion at list prices. The deal, originally announced as a commitment last month, includes options for another 25 MAX 8s and amounts to the largest Boeing order in Turkish Airlines’ history.


The announcement raises the total number of 737 MAXs on order to 1,285. Boeing carries an order backlog of more than 3,100 airplanes in the 737 family.


Turkish Airlines serves more than 220 cities in 99 countries around the world with a fleet of more than 200 Boeing and Airbus jets. Its orderbook now includes more than 100 Boeing 737s and 777ERs and more than 100 Airbus A320s and A330s. In March it <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2013-03-15/turkish-order-pushes-neo-count-above-2000">placed a firm order with Airbus</a> covering 53 Airbus A321neos, four A320neos and 25 A321s.


The airline plans to start taking delivery of the Airbus narrowbodies in 2015 and the Boeings a year later. Delivery schedules stretch into 2021.

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