Menzies Aviation Pay Rates 2026: Ramp, Baggage & Ground Crew Pay

Menzies Aviation provides ground handling for airlines at major Australian airports — check-in and passenger services, ramp and baggage handling, and cargo — work that puts most of its workforce on shift rosters built around flight schedules rather than standard hours.

The Airline Operations—Ground Staff Award 2020 is the floor for this work. Menzies has several enterprise agreements registered in our corpus, covering different airports and functions such as passenger services and ramp and cargo (listed below where one applies to your role); each has to leave staff better off overall than the award tables that follow.

The federal awards relevant to Menzies Aviation roles:

• Airline Operations—Ground Staff Award 2020 (MA000048)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Menzies Aviation Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd declared 2,658 employees across 5 reporting entities — 7.5% casual and 37.6% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

Ramp, baggage and aircraft-servicing staff sit on the Airline Operations—Ground Staff Award 2020 (MA000048):

Airport rosters run around the clock — the award's shift, weekend and public holiday loadings and its minimum-engagement rules are where most ground-crew pay disputes sit.

Source: Fair Work Commission modern awards pay database, current-operative rates (1 July 2026 annual wage review). Casual figures add the 25% casual loading.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Menzies Aviation agreements in our corpus (5 in total):

• Menzies Aviation Passenger Services – Brisbane Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 1 January 2027.
• Menzies Aviation Australia & The TWU – Ramp & Cargo Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved August 2025, nominal expiry 31 December 2026.
• Menzies Aviation Cargo Queensland & TWU Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved November 2023, nominal expiry 1 February 2026.
• Menzies Aviation (Sydney and Melbourne) Customer Service Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved December 2023, nominal expiry 31 December 2025.
• Menzies Aviation Matraville Operations and the TWU of Australia Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved August 2023, nominal expiry 31 December 2024.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

The patterns worth checking on a Menzies Aviation payslip:

• Driving a bigger combination than your grade pays for — the grade follows the vehicle you're required to drive.
• Unpaid loading, waiting and pre-start time.
• Overtime and night loadings absorbed into a flat rate that doesn't beat the award for the roster.
• Contractor arrangements that look like employment — owner-drivers who are really employees.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.