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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Venezuela’s Conviasa Airlines signed a deal with Embraer in late July to buy six E190s, the first of which it plans to accept by the end of this year. The contract, worth $271.2 million based on January 2012 economic conditions, includes purchase options for another 14 of the same airplane type, potentially raising the value of the deal to $904 million. 
The contract makes Conviasa Embraer’s 11th E-Jet customer in Latin America, where the Brazilian manufacturer now claims a market share of 75 percent in the airliner segment ranging up to 120 seats. 
Conviasa has chosen a single-class, 104-seat cabin configuration for its E190s. The Caracas-based airline now serves 14 domestic and nine international destinations with a mix of Airbus A340s, Boeing 737 Classics, Bombardier CRJ700s and ATR turboprops.

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