UK airport operator managing Manchester, Stansted, and East Midlands with 54m annual passengers
MAG operates three major UK airports serving 54m passengers annually and directly employs 7,000 people across operations, engineering, and support functions. The tech stack is enterprise-heavy (SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps) with testing infrastructure (Selenium, Cypress, Jenkins) and asset-management tooling (Maximo, Primavera P6) — a profile consistent with complex, regulated operations at scale. Current hiring is accelerating across ops and engineering roles, while active projects span airspace regulatory work, capital delivery, and technology roadmap development; internally, pressure points include cyber compliance, airspace change delivery, and resource planning for distributed airport operations.
Manchester Airports Group is the UK's largest airport operator, managing Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports. The group handled 54m passengers last year and directly employs 7,000 staff, with a further 40,000 jobs supported across the supply chain. Beyond airport operations—which span security, engineering, property, and retail—MAG owns CAVU, a digital travel services business. The group serves approximately 70% of the UK population within a two-hour radius of one of its three airports and works with airlines to develop route networks and passenger offerings. Capital-intensive operations include ongoing master-plan implementation, runway transformation programmes, and airspace change proposals with regulatory bodies.
MAG uses SAP for enterprise resource planning, Oracle and ServiceNow for operations and service management, Azure and AWS for cloud infrastructure, Power BI for analytics, and testing frameworks including Selenium, Cypress, and Jenkins for continuous integration.
MAG handled 54m passengers across its three airports (Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands) in the last reported year and contributed over £8bn to the UK economy.
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