| Munich Airport Flughafen München |
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| IATA: MUC – ICAO: EDDM | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner/Operator | Flughafen München GmbH | ||
| Serves | Munich, Germany | ||
| Location | near Freising | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,487 ft / 453 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 08R/26L | 4,000 | 13,123 | Concrete |
| 08L/26R | 4,000 | 13,123 | Concrete |
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| Number | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| H | 30 | 98 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 34,721,605 | ||
| Passenger change 09-10 | 6.2% | ||
| Aircraft Movements | 389,939 | ||
| Movements change 09-10 | 1.7% | ||
| Sources: Passenger Traffic, ADV[1] German AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] |
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Munich Airport (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) (German: Flughafen München), is located 28.5 km (17.7 mi) northeast[2] of Munich, Germany, and is a hub for Lufthansa and Star Alliance partner airlines. It lies nearby the old city of Freising and is named in memory of politician Franz Josef Strauss. The airport is located on the territory of four different municipalities: Oberding (location of the terminals; district of Erding), Hallbergmoos, Freising and Marzling (district of Freising).
Between 1995 and 2006, passenger numbers doubled from under 15 million per annum to over 30 million,[3] despite the impact of the September 11 attacks in 2001 and 2002. In 1996, the airport overtook Düsseldorf as Germany’s second busiest airport and currently handles almost twice as many passengers as the country’s third busiest airport. However Berlin is expected to catch up once operational as the city's single airport in 2012. Munich Airport serves as Lufthansa’s second hub in Germany besides Frankfurt.
Munich Airport is the second busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic behind Frankfurt Airport, and the seventh busiest airport in Europe, handling 34,721,605 passengers in 2010.[1] It is the world's 12th busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic,[4] and was the 30th busiest airport in the world in 2010. In 2011 Munich Airport was named the Best Airport[5] in Europe and the fourth-best in the world by Skytrax, the Air Transport Research Company. Munich Airport has already won the title of "Europe's Best Airport" 2010 and four years in a row from 2005 to 2008.
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When construction started in 1980, a village named Franzheim was demolished and its 500 inhabitants were resettled in other places in the area.
The airport commenced operation on 17 May 1992, when operations moved from the former site at Munich-Riem, which was closed shortly before midnight on the day before. As Lufthansa's home base at Frankfurt Airport had capacity limits, Lufthansa established a second hub offering connections through Munich as well as Frankfurt.
In June 2003, Terminal 2 was finished, housing Star Alliance partners exclusively.
Due to the rapid increase in traffic Munich is currently slot constrained and a third runway is now being planned. Not uncommon for such a project, there is considerable opposition from the nearby residents. Lawsuits against the runway have already been announced.
The airport is named after Franz Josef Strauß, who played a prominent, albeit sometimes controversial role in politics of the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until his death in 1988. Among other positions, Strauß was a long-time Minister-President (Governor) of the state of Bavaria, where the airport is located and was initiated under his government. Strauß, having been a private pilot himself, had a particular interest in the aviation industry. He is regarded one of the fathers of Airbus and served as initial chairman of its supervisory board.[6]
Naming the airport by its full name "Flughafen München Franz Josef Strauß" is quite uncommon. The company that owns and operates the airport is named "Flughafen München GmbH" and brands itself as "M - Flughafen München" respectively "M - Munich Airport". In the Munich area, most people use the term "Flughafen München" (Munich Airport), sometimes "Flughafen München II" in order to distinguish from the earlier airport or simply "MUC" for its IATA-code.
Most of the airport's facilities are located in the area between the two runways. The approach road and railway divide the west part into a southern half, which contains cargo and maintenance facilities, and a northern half, which contains mostly administrative buildings, a holiday long-term parking lot and the Visitors' Centre. It is followed by the west apron and Terminal 1, then the Munich Airport Center (MAC), Terminal 2 and the east apron.
Terminal 1 is the older terminal and commenced operation when the airport was opened on 17 May 1992. It has a total capacity of 25 m passengers per annum and is subdivided into five Modules designated with capital letters A, B, C, D and E. Modules A through D provide all facilities necessary to handle departures and arrivals, including landside drive-by lanes and parking, whereas module E is only equipped to handle arrivals. This design essentially makes each module a self-contained sub-terminal of its own, which is small and comfortable despite the total size of the terminal. Hall F is separate, located near Terminal 2 and handles flights with increased security requirements, i.e. those to Israel. Further, checkin for some flights departing from Terminal 1 is located in the Central Area Z (German: Zentralbereich).
The 1,081 m (3,547 ft) pier features 21 jet bridges, two of which have been rebuilt into waiting halls for bus transfers. There are further 60 waiting positions on the apron, some of which are equipped with specially-designed apron jet bridges (German: Vorfeldfluggastbrücken), to which passengers are brought by bus. This unique concept allows passengers to board with full protection from the weather but without the high investments required for full satellite terminals connected through a passenger transport system.
Terminal 1 currently handles all flights from airlines that are not members of Star Alliance. However, due to lack of capacity at Terminal 2, Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings and affiliate Condor moved back to Terminal 1. Further, Hall F handles flights to Israel from all airlines.
Terminal 2 commenced operation on 29 June 2003. As Terminal 1, it has a design capacity of 25 m passengers per annum. However, having been designed as a hub terminal for Lufthansa and Star Alliance members, it is not divided into modules. Instead, all facilities are arranged around a central Plaza.
Due to security regulations imposed by the European Union, the terminal has been equipped with facilities to handle passengers from countries considered insecure, i.e. not implementing the same regulations. This required the construction of a new level as, unlike other airports, the terminal does not have separate areas for arriving and departing passengers. The new level 06 opened on January 15, 2009.
The pier, which is 980 m (3,220 ft) long, is equipped with 24 jet bridges. As the total number of waiting positions of 75 on the East Apron is not always sufficient, Terminal 2 sometimes also uses waiting positions on the West Apron, to which passengers are carried by airside buses.
Terminal 2 has two main departure level, 04 and 05 and additional Bus gates on the lower level 03. Gates on level 05 (H) are designated Non-Schengen Gates. Until the new level 06 opened the northernmost gates were behind an additional security checkpoint for departures to the USA most of the day. The lower level 04 (G) contains Schengen gates. The bus gates on level 03, also designated G, are Schengen gates, too.
The terminal is operated by Terminal-2-Betriebsgesellschaft (German for Terminal 2 Operating Company), which is owned by Flughafen München GmbH (60 %) and Lufthansa (40 %). This makes Terminal 2 the first terminal in Germany which is co-operated by an airline.
There is a baggage sorting hall on the apron, which is planned to be extended into a satellite terminal for Terminal 2.
The Munich Airport Centre (MAC) is a shopping, business and recreation area that connects the two terminals. The older Central Area (German: Zentralbereich), which was originally built as part of Terminal 1, hosts a shopping mall and the S-Bahn station. The newer MAC Forum built with Terminal 2 is a large outdoor area with a tent-like, partly transparent roof. Next to it is the airport hotel managed by Kempinski.
The airport authorities have set out to cater for visitors and sight-seers by creating a 'Visitors Park' which includes a 'Visitors Hill' from which a good view can be obtained of the westerly aircraft apron and Terminal 1. This is served by a railway station named 'Besucherpark'. The view from the hill is shown in the above image. There are three historic aircraft on display in the park, a Super Constellation, a Douglas DC-3 and a Junkers Ju 52/3m. There is also a visitors viewing terrace on the roof of Terminal 2 that gives a view of the easterly aircraft apron.
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal / Check-in |
|---|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Ljubljana, Pristina | 2-4 |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Kalamata, Thessaloniki, Rhodes Seasonal: Heraklion |
2-4 |
| Aer Lingus | Cork, Dublin | 1-D |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 1-C |
| Air Arabia Egypt | Charter: Marsa Alam | 1-B |
| Air Berlin | Antalya, Bari, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Brindisi, Catania, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Hurghada, Mombasa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster/Osnabrück, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tenerife-South, Windhoek Seasonal: Alicante, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cagliari, Cancún, Corfu, Enfidha, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kavala, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luxor, Málaga, Malta, Minorca, Mykonos, Mytilene/Lesbos, Naples, Preveza, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rhodes, Samos, Sharm el-Sheikh, Thessaloniki, Varadero, Westerland/Sylt, Zakynthos |
1-A |
| Air Cairo | Charter: Hurghada | 1-C |
| Air Canada | Toronto-Pearson | 2-3 |
| Air China | Athens, Beijing-Capital | 2-3 |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1-D |
| Air France operated by Régional |
Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1-D |
| Air Lipsia | Magdeburg-Cochstedt | 1-D |
| Air Malta | Catania, Malta | 2-4 |
| Air Mauritius | Mauritius | 1-B |
| Air One | Milan-Malpensa [begins 25 March 2012] | 1-D |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson | 1-Z |
| AirBaltic | Riga | 1-D |
| Ak Bars Aero | Kazan | 1-B |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino | 1-D |
| Alitalia operated by Air One |
Rome-Fiumicino | 1-D |
| All Nippon Airways | Tokyo-Narita | 2-3 |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1-F |
| Atlasjet | Charter: Antalya | 1-C |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna | 2-4 |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways |
Vienna | 2-4 |
| Bmibaby | Seasonal: East Midlands | 1-D |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 1-B |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna | 1-Z |
| Carpatair | Timisoara | 1-C |
| Cimber Sterling | Billund | 2-4 |
| Condor | Agadir, Antalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini |
1-B |
| Cirrus Airlines | Berne | 2-4 |
| Croatia Airlines | Split, Zagreb Seasonal: Zadar |
2-4 |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca | 1-B |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | 1-B |
| Donavia | Rostov-on-Don | 1-C |
| EasyJet | Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester | 1-Z |
| EgyptAir | Cairo | 2-4 |
| El Al | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1-F |
| Emirates | Dubai | 1-C |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | 1-C |
| Finnair | Helsinki | 1-D |
| Germania | Seasonal: Erbil, Pristina, Rhodes, Sulaymaniyah, Thessaloniki | 1-C |
| Germanwings | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Pristina | 1-D |
| Iberia | Madrid | 1-D |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum |
Madrid | 1-D |
| Icelandair | Seasonal: Reykjavik-Keflavik | 1-D |
| InterSky | Seasonal: Elba | 1-D |
| Israir Airlines | Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1-F |
| Jet Air | Seasonal: Heringsdorf | 1-D |
| KLM | Amsterdam | 1-D |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper |
Amsterdam | 1-D |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Katowice, Warsaw | 2-4 |
| LOT Polish Airlines operated by EuroLOT |
Poznan, Wroclaw | 2-4 |
| Lufthansa | Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Busan, Cairo, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Düsseldorf, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Kiev-Boryspil, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Mexico City [begins 28 October 2012], Milan-Malpensa, Montréal-Trudeau, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Naples, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tokyo-Narita, Valencia [begins 31 March 2012], Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Zurich Seasonal: Bastia [begins 5 May 2012], Bursa, Catania, Dublin, Faro, Malta, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca |
2-4 |
| Lufthansa operated by BMI |
Manchester | 2-4 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti |
Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Klagenfurt [ends 31 January], Milan-Malpensa, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Trieste, Turin, Venice-Marco Polo, Verona | 2-4 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways |
Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Bremen, Budapest, Bursa, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Florence, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Graz, Krakow, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Madrid, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Turin, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Naples, Pula [begins 5 May 2012] |
2-4 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine |
Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Bursa, Chişinău, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Donetsk, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Florence, Gdansk, Geneva, Hanover, Krakow, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, Luxembourg, Lyon, Lvov, Manchester, Marseille, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Nuremberg, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Sarajevo, Sibiu, Stuttgart, Timisoara, Tirana, Toulouse, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland/Sylt, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Montpellier [begins 31 March 2012], Olbia, Split, Zadar |
2-4 |
| Luxair | Luxembourg | 2-4 |
| Niki | Vienna | 1-A |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda | 1-D |
| Nouvelair | Charter: Djerba, Enfidha | 1-C |
| Oman Air | Muscat | 1-C |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen | 1-C |
| Polet Airlines | Voronezh | 1-C |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 2-4 |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg | 1-C |
| Royal Air Maroc | Marrakech | 1-B |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 1-B |
| RusLine | Krasnodar [begins 7 January], Volgograd | 1-C |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo | 1-B |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen | 2-4 |
| Singapore Airlines | Manchester, Singapore | 2-4 |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya | 1-C |
| South African Airways | Johannesburg | 2-3 |
| Spanair | Barcelona | 2-3 |
| Sun d'Or operated by El Al | Seasonal Charter: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion | 1-F |
| SunExpress | Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir | 1-C |
| SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland | Adana, Gaziantep, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm-El-Sheikh | 1-C |
| Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines |
Zürich | 2-4 |
| Tailwind Airlines | Charter: Antalya | 1-C |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 2-4 |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Sibiu | 1-C |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 2-3 |
| TUIfly | Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sal, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Araxos/Patras, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
1-Z |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis | 1-B |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 2-3 |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil [begins 27 May 2012] | 1-C |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, Newark, Washington-Dulles | 2-3 |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterinburg [begins 28 March 2012] | TBD |
| US Airways | Philadelphia | 2-3 |
| UTair Aviation | Tyumen | 1-C |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona [begins 25 March] | 1-D |
| Yakutia Airlines | Irkutsk | 1-B |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| BAE Systems | Warton |
| BinAir | No schedules at the moment; Charter flights. |
| British Airways World Cargo operated by Global Supply Systems |
Bahrain, Delhi, Hong Kong, London-Stansted |
| DHL operated by European Air Transport |
Leipzig/Halle |
| FedEx Express | Frankfurt, Tel Aviv |
| Lufthansa Cargo | Dakar, Mumbai, Shenzhen, Viracopos-Campinas |
| Star Air (Maersk Air) | Athens, Cologne/Bonn |
| Swiftair | Barcelona |
| TNT Airways | Brussels, Geneva, Katowice, Liège, Ljubljana, Ostrava |
| West Air Sweden | Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart |
DBA, originally Deutsche BA, had its head office on the grounds of Munich Airport and in Hallbergmoos.[7][8]
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Munich Airport is connected to the city by Munich suburban railway lines S1 and S8. The ride takes approximately 45 minutes. Furthermore, a scheduled bus service (MVV line 635) connects the airport within 20 minutes to the Freising railway station, providing access to regional trains to destinations like Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Prague.
Munich Airport Station is located in a tunnel beneath the central area. A second station, Besucherpark (German: Visitors' Park) connects the cargo and maintenance areas, long-term parking, administrative buildings and the name-giving Visitors' Park.
A second tunnel beneath the terminals is currently unused. Originally, there were plans to use it for intercity railway, then for a Transrapid maglev train making the trip to Munich Central Station in 10 minutes. However, this project was cancelled in March 2008 due to cost escalation.[9]
| Preceding station | Munich S-Bahn | Following station | ||
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München Flughafen Besucherpark
toward Freising or Airport
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S1 | Terminus | ||
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München Flughafen Besucherpark
toward Herrsching
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S8 | Terminus |
MVV bus lines connect the airport to the nearby city of Freising as well as Erding and Markt Schwaben.
Lufthansa Airport Bus provides an alternative to the S-Bahn, stopping at Nordfriedhof subway station and Munich Central Station.
Munich Airport is accessible via nearby Motorway A 92, which connects to Motorway A 9 and Munich's ring motorway A 99
Bavarian State Road St. 2584 connects A 92's exit 6 (Flughafen München) - an incomplete interchange that can only be used by traffic to and from the west - to the terminals. Access from the east is possible via exit 8 (Freising Ost) and Bavarian State Road St. 2580, which connects to St. 2584 in the east of the airport.
A third runway would increase the number of landing slots available per hour from 90 to 120. It would run in parallel to the existing runways and be located to the northeast of the current north runway, significantly extending the total area occupied by the airport.
According to Flughafen München GmbH (FMG), the airport's operator, the current two-runway system is already operating at full capacity during peak hours, and requests for additional slots from airlines have been denied. Further increase in air traffic is expected as Munich is to become a second major hub in Germany after Frankfurt.
In August 2007, the airport operator applied for a planning permission from the government of Upper Bavaria. As more than 60,000 objections have been filed during public display of the plans, the procedures are expected not to conclude before 2011.
While according to ICAO Regulations (Annex XIV) the new runway would have to be named 08L/26R (renaming the existing north runway to 08C/26C), it is currently assigned the working title 09/27 in all plans.[10]
An extension to Terminal 2 would see the baggage sorting hall on the east apron upgraded to become a satellite terminal. This would allow an additional 11 million passengers to be handled per year, adding 52 gates and 27 passenger air bridges. This plan was approved in December 2010. An expansion for the satellite building into a 'T' shape is also planned for the future along with another satellite and room for a possible 3rd Terminal to the east.[11]
While Terminal 1 still has plenty of capacity left - in 2007, it only handled about 9 m passengers - the extension of Terminal 2 is required by Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners to allow easy transfers within a single terminal. When Terminal 2 and its east apron were built, preparations for a satellite terminal had already been made. Besides the baggage transport tunnel, there are three more tunnels beneath the Terminal 2 apron that can receive a people mover and extensions to the current S-Bahn rail tunnel and unused inter-city rail tunnel respectively. The preparations also allow construction of a second satellite or an independent third terminal further to the east. Construction for this satellite building is planned to start in Fall 2011.