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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The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Bombardier to pay a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen more than $319,000 for denying him Challenger 604 flight training in 2004, after U.S. authorities identified him as a “threat to aviation or national security.” In its ruling, the tribunal deemed Javed Latif a victim of discrimination based on his ethnic and national origin. Out of the total award, punitive damages accounted for $50,000–the highest amount ever awarded by the tribunal. The court also ordered Bombardier to stop applying or considering standards and decisions of U.S. authorities relative to requests for pilot training under Canadian licenses. Court testimony established that Bombardier turned down Latif’s application because U.S. authorities had denied him a similar request in April 2004 “to protect U.S. national security.” By 2008, however, U.S. authorities no longer considered him a threat, the court heard. During the hearing, expert witness Professor Reem Anne Bahdi of the University of Windsor told the court that many security programs in the U.S. use racial profiling to target Arabs and Muslims. She added that in 2007 the U.S. labeled more than 700,000 people as “potential terrorists.”

News and information about crew, passenger, aircraft and airport security issues.

Bombardier Fined $319,000 for Denial of Pilot Training  

The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Bombardier to pay a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen more than $319,000 for denying him Challenger 604 flight t

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News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

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News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

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