airport planning engineer
Airport planning engineers manage and coordinate the planning, design, and development programs in airports.
airport planning engineer airport planning engineers manage and coordinate the planning, design, and development programs in airports. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include land use for airport planning, geological factors in airport construction, monitor aviation growth trends, manage budgets, compile airport certification manuals.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £51,366 a year for Civil engineers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £39,802 to £65,000 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2121). ONS rates this estimate reasonably precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only airport planning engineer, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 2. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Transportation
- English Language
- Mathematics
- Geography
- Law and Government
- Computers and Electronics
- Administration and Management
- Engineering and Technology
What you'd actually do
- Define regional or local transportation planning problems or priorities.
- Participate in public meetings or hearings to explain planning proposals, to gather feedback from those affected by projects, or to achieve consensus on project designs.
- Prepare reports or recommendations on transportation planning.
- Collaborate with engineers to research, analyze, or resolve complex transportation design issues.
- Recommend transportation system improvements or projects, based on economic, population, land-use, or traffic projections.
- Develop computer models to address transportation planning issues.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does airport planning engineer do?
Airport planning engineers manage and coordinate the planning, design, and development programs in airports.
What skills does airport planning engineer need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include land use for airport planning, geological factors in airport construction, monitor aviation growth trends, manage budgets, compile airport certification manuals, design customised maps. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace airport planning engineer?
Our AI-durability model gives airport planning engineer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.