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 Regional Airline Association has urged Congress to reject two new taxes on airline passengers&nbsp;proposed by President Obama in late September.

One would triple the security tax paid by airline passengers and the other would amount to a $100 per flight tax on each departure regardless of the size of the aircraft.
The RAA claims the new taxes, estimated at $900 million in the first year alone, could cause sharp service reductions at all U.S. communities, result in the outright elimination of scheduled air service at potentially hundreds of small- and medium-size communities and threaten the job security of 53,000 airline workers.
“The context and math here is pretty easy to understand,” said RAA president Roger Cohen. “The new per-flight tax alone would cost more than all regional airlines combined likely earned last year…”

RAA Alarmed by New Tax Plan

The Regional Airline Association has urged Congress to reject two new taxes on airline passengers proposed by President Obama in late September. 

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