Lauderdale
There has to be a differential* in title here:
Operations Manager : Flight or Ground
In some organisations, Flight also involves management of the Flt Crew function.
These are Aircrew or ex Aircrew functions.
Where as where true Flt (not turnround supervisors) Dispatchers are involved,
then the 50K+ GBP is realistic. Where there are no Real Flt Dispatchers involved, then apply supervisory scales, i.e. maybe 30 to 35K GBP.
Ask me how I know, I was one of the real ones, but then that was tax free.My last one in the UK was 44+K GBP + bonus/share options etc.,
50+K in the end.
You must take into account, pension, medicare, transport allowance, subsidised catering (cheap company/airport canteen), overtime ratio, leave allowance, staff travel (if any) etc., etc. They all add up to the overall package.
Cheers Merlin (not the Acft/Heli or aero engine)
* This gets back to the qualification of the title 'Dispatcher'. I had never heard this applied to Ramp personnel until around the mid 90s, it always was a Flt Ops function before then.