Management appointments at Manchester Airport Group
The Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has named Penny Coates as chief operating officer.
The appointment follows on from the earlier appointment of Charlie Cornish as the group’s new group chief executive in June.
Coates is currently MD of the group’s smaller airports – East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside – but MAG has now decided to bring the management together.
“I’m excited to add Manchester – the largest of MAG’s airports – to my portfolio because it creates a huge opportunity to optimise the benefits of being a group,†she said.
Andrew Harrison, the current commercial director at Manchester, will replace Andrew Cornish as the new MD of Manchester Airport.
Both appointments start from 15 September.
The post of East Midlands Airport’s MD will be advertised internally across MAG with any appointment likely to also be effective from September.
by Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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