Manchester Airport is the UK’s third largest airport and currently handles 20 million passengers a year, offering direct flights to over 180 destinations worldwide by over 90 airlines.

The Manchester Airports Group
Manchester Airport is part of The Manchester Airports Group Plc (MAG), which is the second largest airport operator in the UK and comprises the airports of Manchester, Nottingham East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside.

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The Group's role is to deliver overarching business and financial strategies for the business as a whole and to provide a policy framework within which targets for the individual businesses can be set and delivered.
MAG is wholly owned by the ten local authorities of Greater Manchester:

• The Council of the City of Manchester - 55%
• The Borough Council of Bolton - 5%
• The Borough Council of Bury - 5%
• The Oldham Borough Council - 5%
• The Rochdale Borough Council - 5%
• The Council of the City of Salford - 5%
• The Metropolitan Borough Council of Stockport - 5%
• The Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - 5%
• The Trafford Borough Council - 5%
• The Wigan Borough Council - 5%

The group has been structured into a holding company and five trading companies, forming a family of businesses, as follows:

Manchester Airport Division
This company represents the historic and continuing heart of the Group's business - the successful operation and development of Manchester Airport.

Manchester Airport Aviation Services
This company brings together all the major services that are essential to Manchester Airport's operation. It is charged with running ground and baggage handling, passenger transfer services, aviation security, the fire service, engineering and car parks business.

Manchester Airport Ventures
This company combines the former commercial ventures arm of Manchester Airport which operated on-site advertising space activities, airport petrol stations, a photography, design and print business, and the training and motor transport activities that were previously part of the Manchester Airport structure.

Manchester Airport Developments
Maximising the immense potential for development opportunities generated directly and indirectly by the Group, the core activity of this company will relate to Manchester, where the opportunities include on-site developments such as remote car parks, remote check in facilities etc. It is also responsible for the cost effective management of the capital programme for all four airports in the Group.

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