Aviation Minister Keir Mather met some of the 300 apprentices to have started their career on Manchester Airport’s historic transformation programme.
The £1.3bn investment has delivered an award-winning, state-of-the-art terminal that has set the UK’s global gateway in the North up to further increase its impact on the regional and national economy.
As well as delivering wide-ranging benefits to passengers, those working at the airport and businesses using it to trade globally, the transformation will leave a significant social and economic legacy.
That includes through the jobs it has created, especially for young people in the North who have taken their first step on the career ladder and gone on to work on other major projects across the region.
That was the focus of the Minister’s visit, as he checked out Manchester’s new Terminal 2 and met apprentices at different stages of their training, all of whom working on the project at some point.
Chloe O’Neill became the 300th person to complete an apprenticeship through the programme and land a permanent job, marking a major milestone in terms of making sure the benefits of MAG’s investment are felt for years to come.
Minister Mather met Sam McCarthy and Rebecca Proctor who have recently completed apprenticeships as part of the programme .
He also met Ciaran Roche who started out his career as an apprentice on the first phase of the transformation programme almost a decade ago and has gone on to become a research and development expenditure credit coordinator for Laing O’Rourke.
