Manchester Stand Capacity Programme

Manchester Airport needs additional aircraft parking capacity to match its newly expanded terminals, which can now handle up to 50 million passengers a year. Over the next five years, new stands will be delivered across the apron while the airfield remains fully operational. The challenge is to sequence multiple projects around live aircraft movements at a time when stand availability is already constrained by construction, ensuring capacity is maintained during peak periods while the wider programme progresses.

G&T is providing Cost Management services across the programme, with an embedded team supporting Manchester Airports Group on each stand project. Our role includes cost estimating and benchmarking, monthly cost reporting, forecast outturn cost, change management support and commercial assurance through programme governance. By applying a consistent commercial approach across each phase, we are helping the client understand cost and risk at both project and programme level as new stand packages are developed and brought forward.

The programme is providing Manchester Airports Group with a single, consistent view of cost and commercial risk across the planned stand expansion. This is helping support investment decisions as individual phases are prioritised, developed and delivered around live airfield operations. G&T’s Cost Management input is contributing to clearer commercial oversight across the programme, helping the airport increase stand capacity in step with its expanded terminal infrastructure while maintaining operational resilience during construction.