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.
U.S. majors – with one notable exception – have reported few major wrinkles as they work to comply with FAA’s new pilot flight and duty time rules. The rules, finalized two years ago and in force starting Jan. 4., set new requirements for passenger carrier scheduling. Carriers that are providing feedback say a combination of more pilots, increased productivity and more efficient scheduling is helping them to comply.
The merged American Airlines will combine its two operations centers into American’s existing facility in Dallas Fort/Worth (DFW), shuttering the US Airways flight operations center in Moon Township, just northwest of Pittsburgh. The move, announced in a letter to the affected staff from American Senior VP-Air Operations Tim Campbell, is not a surprise. American CEO Doug Parker has said that the larger DFW facility makes sense as a combined home for the merged carrier’s operations center functions.
Rising demand for heavy maintenance and modifications helped boost the global aftermarket service sales outlook to a 5.7% increase in the first half of 2014, a healthy bump over the half-year outlook from just three months ago, Canaccord Genuity reports in its latest quarterly Commercial Aerospace MRO Survey.
