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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The A350-900 XWB arrived at Tokyo Haneda Airport Wednesday on the second stop of an 11-day, five-city demonstration tour of Asia. A350-900 MSN005 arrived in Japan after making its first stop on Monday at Seoul Gimpo International Airport, home of A350 customer Asiana Airlines. The remainder of the tour will take the Airbus flight crew to Hanoi, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, from which they’ll return home to Toulouse on November 28.

 


This Asian tour follows the completion of the A350-900 flight test campaign, which recently led to the <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2014-09-30/airbus-achieves-european-certification-a350-900">EASA</a> and <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2014-11-12/airbus-a350-900-receives-faa-type-certification">FAA type certification</a>. The new widebody already visited Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia earlier this year during the route proving certification exercise. Orders from Asia-Pacific carriers account for roughly a third of all the 750 A350s on backlog.

 


One of five A350-900 test aircraft, MSN005 features a fully functional cabin carrying 42 business class and 223 economy class seats. The demonstration exercise comes Airbus prepares for first delivery to Qatar Airways on December 12.&nbsp;

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