Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Delta Air Lines has put its first wi-fi-equipped international aircraft—a Boeing 747-400—into service, the carrier says. The aircraft also marks the debut of Gogo’s Ku-band satellite-based connectivity service. Delta is installing the service on its entire international fleet. The carrier has Gogo’s ground-based service on its 570-aircraft mainline domestic fleet. Delta’s 747 fleet is the first to get the service. Three have been modified, and the other 13 will be done by mid-year.
Southwest Airlines wants to keep two former Frontier Airlines slots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that it has been using on a daily DCA-Kansas City International Airport (MCI) flight while American Airlines wants to wrestle them away and stave off competition proposed by the three other applicants. The Department of Transportation (DOT) temporarily allocated the slots to Southwest after Republic Airline Inc. told DOT on Jan. 24 that subsidiary Frontier would stop flying its daily DCA-MCI route on Feb. 1.
Brazil’s GOL netted $40.7 million in U.S. Export-Import Bank-backed bond issuance to help finance an engine services contract with Delta Tech Ops—the third such deal in two years, the bank reports. Tech Ops has a five-year agreement to overhaul the airline’s CFM56-7Bs. The first two deals were done in 2012 as part of an $84.8 million Ex-Im Bank commitment supporting the contract.
