Ryanair
Stansted + 11 other locations
About Ryanair
Ryanair is Europe’s largest airline group, carrying over 180 million passengers annually across more than 230 destinations with a fleet of over 500 Boeing 737 aircraft. In the UK, Ryanair operates major commercial bases across the country, anchored by its primary engineering and flight operations hub at London Stansted Airport, extensive heavy airframe maintenance facilities at Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PAML), and flight simulator training centres at Stansted and East Midlands. For early-careers talent, Ryanair offers direct-entry routes across aviation maintenance, engineering, software, and operations. The airline runs UK aircraft engineering apprenticeships and junior mechanic roles at Stansted and Prestwick, alongside graduate engineering pathways in flight simulation and aviation safety. In addition, Ryanair operates two-year rotational graduate programmes across Operations, Finance, and IT Labs, as well as mentored cadet programmes for aspiring commercial pilots.
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Ryanair's heavy aircraft maintenance facility at Glasgow Prestwick Airport (Prestwick Aircraft Maintenance Ltd) maintains dozens of Boeing 737 aircraft annually and houses a dedicated Engineering Training Academy providing hands-on aircraft mechanics apprenticeships.