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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Frontier Airlines’ new regional subsidiary, Lynx Aviation, will not start service as scheduled on October 1 due to its failure to meet minimum FAA airworthiness standards. Frontier has arranged with code-share partners Republic Airways and Horizon Air to fly Embraer E170s and Bombardier CRJ700s from Denver in place of Lynx’s Bombardier Q400 turboprops to launch cities Wichita on October 1, followed by Rapid City, S.D., and Sioux City, Iowa, on October 5. According to a Frontier spokesman, the reasons for the certification delay center on “bureaucratic-type stuff,” including deficient documentation of contingency plans for information technology failures. Frontier has taken delivery of two of the 10 Q400s for which it placed a firm order last year. It had planned to add six more destinations to the Lynx schedule by year-end.

Lynx caught in FAA snare

Frontier Airlines’ new regional subsidiary, Lynx Aviation, will not start service as scheduled on October 1 due to its failure to meet minimum FAA airworth

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