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.
Air Canada’s expansion plans for Rouge, its low-cost leisure subsidiary and key element of its cost-reduction plan, remain on track for 2014, with up to 33 Boeing 767s and A319s destined to be reconfigured and shifted from the mainline operation to the new service by yearend, the carrier’s executives say.
SkyWest Inc. (SI) has embarked on an aggressive turnaround plan for its money-hemorrhaging ExpressJet unit that management says will succeed even if it requires shrinking the carrier to shed unprofitable flying. SI, the holding company for regional carriers ExpressJet and SkyWest, doesn’t break out earnings by unit, but CFO Mike Kraupp says ExpressJet lost “in the neighborhood of” $50 million in 2013, dragging down an overall operation that earned $59 million.
Rep. Frank LoBiondo’s (R-N.J.) bill to require FAA to conduct a formal rulemaking process before imposing sleep apnea testing requirements is heading to the Senate for consideration after the House passed the measure, H.R. 3578, by voice vote on Tuesday. LoBiondo, who chairs the House aviation subcommittee, introduced the bill in November after FAA Federal Air Surgeon Frederick Tilton outlined plans to require pilots and air traffic controllers with a body mass index (BMI) to undergo testing for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
