Airline Operations - Ground Staff Award
Covers airline-operations ground staff — operating and ancillary on-airport servicing of aircraft for commercial passenger / freight air transport and private business / instructional flying based in Australia. Four streams (aviation transport, clerical / administration / support, maintenance and engineering, storepersons / logistics) with their own classifications and base-rate scales. Standard rate is Clerical L2 = Tradesperson rate ($1,068.40/wk).
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
What's built
- All classifications across the four streams — Aviation Transport L1-L8, Clerical / Admin / Support L1-L8, Maintenance and Engineering (Aircraft Worker 1-4, Tradesperson, AME, plus 11 Cat B Licence Holder rows for Full and Transitional B1.1-B1.4 / B2 / B1-B2), and Storepersons / Logistics L1-L5.
- Junior rates for the three streams that have them (clerical, maintenance, storepersons — aviation transport has no junior rates).
- Apprentice rates anchored to Tradesperson (AQF III) or Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AQF IV) per cl. 18.5, with the apprentice_variant enum repurposed: 3_year = AQF III, 4_year = AQF IV.
- Casual OT loading-inclusive at 175% / 225% per cl. 24.1(b) — opposite of the MA000112 default.
- Stream-scoped allowances: aviation transport (money collection, leading-hand, laundry); maintenance and engineering (ATRE, Cat A / Cat C licence, leading hand, special rates including cold / hot / wet, tool allowance).
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision — re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Each employee must be assigned a stream — aviation_transport, clerical_administration_support, maintenance_engineering, or storepersons_logistics — to drive the right rate table, the right junior structure and the stream-scoped allowances.
- MA000048 is for airline ground staff. MA000049 (Airport Employees) covers airport-OPERATOR employees — different award.
- Apprentices are only available in the maintenance and engineering stream.
- • Airline operations
- • Aircraft ground handling
- • Aviation maintenance
- • Cargo handling
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself — Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
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We can demo a pay run on the airline ground staff award using sample employees in a sandbox tenant — including any of the special-instruction steps above so you can see exactly what your team's day-to-day looks like.
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