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 last month said it plans to slash employment at its Commercial Airplanes business by some 4,500 positions this year “as part of an effort to ensure competitiveness and control costs in the face of a weakening global economy.” The cuts lower Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ employment total to approximately 63,500, roughly the level at which it began at the start of last year. 
A Boeing spokesman told AIN that the company planned to distribute 60-day layoff notices on February 20, meaning the actual job cuts won’t begin until next month. 
“We are taking prudent actions to make sure Boeing remains well positioned in today’s difficult economic environment,” said Scott Carson, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. “We have made significant strides in recent years to achieve greater efficiency and productivity, but we still face challenges that we must address. We regret the disruption to those affected by this decision, but we believe that acting now will allow us to be in a financial position to adapt to market uncertainties, meet our customer commitments, continue investing in our current and future product lines, and protect our competitiveness in a fiercely competitive business environment.”
The layoffs come as part of a program to reduce overhead costs and discretionary spending, much of which it expects it can achieve through normal attrition and a reduction in contract labor. It said many of the job cuts will involve overhead functions and other areas not directly associated with airplane production. Most will occur in Washington state in the second quarter of the year, it said. The company promised to support laid-off employees with layoff benefits and career-transition services. 
Commercial Airplanes began 2008 employing more than 63,000 people (including contract labor) and increased employment to nearly 68,000 by year-end. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;–

Boeing Commercial To Lay off 4,500 

Boeing last month said it plans to slash employment at its Commercial Airplanes business by some 4,500 positions this year “as part of an effort to ensure 

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