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.
FAA’s proposed fiscal 2015 budget underscores the agency’s intent to shift more National Airspace System (NAS) funding to users—efforts that have been largely halted in Congress, eliminating the need for what will be a serious stakeholder debate. The budget request’s high points are similar to those pitched—and largely ignored by Congress—in the past several years (DAILY, March 5).
Leveraging assets snapped up as part of divestitures from the American/US Airways merger and the elimination of long-standing restrictions on flying out of Dallas Love Field, Virgin America wants to move its North Texas operations from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Love this fall and launch flights to major U.S. business centers.
