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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Memphis-based Northwest Airlines subsidiary Express Airlines I on May 8 officially changed its name to Pinnacle Airlines ahead of an initial public offering expected to raise $400 million. Expected to issue its IPO within the next month, Pinnacle recently reported a 46.9-percent increase in passengers and a 97.4-percent increase in revenue passenger miles for the first quarter, resulting in a load-factor increase of 11.6 points, to 64 percent. As a result, on June 11 it plans to reinstate a fourth bank of flights from its Memphis hub, which the airline dropped soon after September 11 to help effect a 25-percent drop in capacity. At press time flying 36 Bombardier CRJs and 14 Saab 340s from Detroit, Memphis and Minneapolis, Pinnacle plans to transfer the rest of its turboprop fleet to fellow Northwest Airlines affiliate Mesaba Airlines by the end of the year. It holds firm orders for another 47 forty-four- and fifty-seat CRJs. &nbsp;

Express Airlines I Now Pinnacle

Memphis-based Northwest Airlines subsidiary Express Airlines I on May 8 officially changed its name to Pinnacle Airlines ahead of an initial public offerin

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