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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St. George, Utah-based SkyWest Airlines began <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/?q=aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2011-08-26/skywest-fly-crjs-us-air">flying as a US Airways Express partner</a> on December 16, when it launched six daily flights from US Airways’ hub in Phoenix. The new three-year contact calls for SkyWest Airlines to operate some 49 flights to 19 destinations by the spring and includes an option for US Airways to switch equipment to CRJ700s. 
SkyWest has agreed to serve US Airways’ Phoenix-based operation with fourteen 50-passenger Bombardier CRJ200s, replacing the CRJ200 and de Havilland Dash 8 turboprop service flown by Mesa Airlines. Mesa will now share 86 US Airways Express flights out of Phoenix with SkyWest. 
The world’s largest independently owned regional airline, SkyWest also partners with United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, AirTran Airways and Alaska Airlines.

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