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.
Despite a seemingly benign 2014 fleet plan—adding nine units to an existing fleet and parking nothing—JetBlue Airways has plenty of significant aircraft-related changes on tap for the next 12 months. JetBlue began the year with 194 aircraft—130 Airbus A320s, four A321s, and 60 Embraer 190s. It will take delivery of nine more—all A321s—in 2014, including its first aircraft configured with the carrier’s new Mint cabin that includes 16 lie-flat seats, four of them behind closed-door suites, up front.
JetBlue Airways could boost capacity by as much at 7% in 2014, but the figure is deceiving—most of the carrier’s growth will come in Latin American/Caribbean markets and its blossoming Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) hub, carrier executives say. The airline, fresh off its most profitable year ever, sees significant opportunity in historically high-fare markets that connect the U.S. with points south.
FAA has combined two divisions—Aircraft Engineering and Production and Airworthiness—to create the Design, Manufacturing, and Airworthiness Division within its Office of Aviation Safety. The new group, which will assume the old engineering division’s AIR-100 designation, has five branches: Certification and Procedures, Technical and Administrative Support, Systems and Equipment Standards, Operational Oversight and Policy, and Systems Performance and Development. The reorganization, announced formally in a Jan.
