Munich International Airport

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Franz Josef Strauß International Airport
Flughafen München Franz Josef Strauß
IATA: MUC - ICAO: EDDM
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen München GmbH
Serves Munich
Elevation AMSL 1,487 ft (453 m)
Coordinates 48°21′14″N, 11°47′10″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08R/26L 13,123 4,000 Concrete
08L/26R 13,123 4,000 Concrete

Munich International Airport (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM), officially named Franz Josef Strauss International Airport (German: Flughafen München Franz Josef Strauß) is located 17.5 miles (28km) northeast of Munich, Germany, and is a hub for Lufthansa and Star Alliance partner airlines. The airport lies in portions of four municipalities: Freising, Oberding (location of the terminals), Hallbergmoos and Marzling. The airport is named in memory of politician Franz Josef Strauß.

In 2006 the airport had 30.76 million passengers, making it the second most important airport in Germany and currently ranked 7th in Europe. In 2006, for the second consecutive year, Munich Airport was named the "Best Airport in Europe" and third best worldwide (after Singapore Changi Airport and Hong Kong International Airport) by Skytrax, the air transport research company. [1]

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It began operations in 1992, replacing the former international Airport in Munich-Riem. When its construction was started in 1980 a village named Franzheim had to be demolished, its 500 inhabitants having been resettled in other places in the area.

As Lufthansa's home base at Frankfurt International Airport is heavily saturated with traffic and has capacity limits, cities with large frequencies are served through Munich Franz Josef Strauss airport as well as Frankfurt International. The airport was named after Franz Josef Strauß, who played an important role in German politics. Among other Strauß had been a long-time prime minister in Bavaria (the federal state where the airport is located). Under his government, the airport had been planned. Strauß, having been a private pilot himself, was said to have a particular interest in the aviation industry and infrastructure.

Naming the airport by its full name is quite uncommon, even the airport authority is only named "Flughafen München Gesellschaft". In the Munich area, most people prefer the term "Flughafen München" (Munich Airport), sometimes "Flughafen München II" or simply MUC. The company operating the airport brands it as "M - Flughafen München".

In June 2003, Terminal 2 was finished, housing Star Alliance partners exclusively.

Due to the fast increase of traffic, a third runway is now being planned. It would also significantly reduce the heavy delays in the winter, which sometimes occur during heavy snowfall. As always when there is such a project, there is considerable opposition from the neighboring people. In fact, lawsuits against the runway have already been announced.

Munich International Airport
Munich International Airport

Munich city center can be reached by the Munich S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 which take approximately forty minutes and cost about €8.80 one way. Taxi rides to downtown Munich cost about €50 and can encounter traffic jams.

The nearby cities of Freising and Erding can be reached by taxi (15 minutes, €18).

The Munich Airport Center is situated between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. It is both a shopping mall and a business center with conference facilities. There is also the Airbräu restaurant and a shopping mall.

There are two terminals at Munich. The airport is roughly divided into three parts, Terminal 1, common area and Terminal 2, which is the newest part. Terminal 1 and 2's airsides are much more sparse in shops and eateries than the common area. The latter contains the airport's own brewpub, Airbräu.

Munich International Airport at night
Munich International Airport at night

Terminal 1 houses most non-Star Alliance airlines, it has 60 stands, 19 aerobridges and 14 boarding stations. The halls or areas are numbered A-F (F being nearer teminal 2, and a secure area for Israel bound flights). It was opened on 17th May 1992 and is capable of handling 20 million passengers per year. Currently, the terminal is being renovated, giving increased space for shops and other improvements. The first halls have already been finished.

68 airlines use Terminal 1.

  • Air Transat (Calgary, Halifax, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
  • TUIfly (Antalya, Brindisi, Cagliari, Cairo, Catania, Dalaman, Djerba, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Leipzig/Halle, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Rijeka, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Venice)

  • Air Berlin (Alicante, Hurghada, Málaga, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Ras Al Khaimah)
  • dba (Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Münster/Osnabrück, Paris-Orly)
  • LTU International (Adana, Alicante, Almeria, Arvidsjaur, Bangkok, Cancun, Cape Town, Catania, Colombo, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fort Myers, Fuchal, Hamburg, Hurghada, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Málaga, Male, Mauritius, Menorca, Miami, Monastir, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Phuket, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife, Vancouver, Varadero, Varna, Windhoek)

Outside Halls C and D
Outside Halls C and D
Munich Airport Tower
Munich Airport Tower

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Hall F is a secure terminal used by Israeli airlines, it is a holding facility where passengers are bussed out to secure remote gates, under the guard of the federal police or Bundespolizei.

Terminal 2 Departure area
Terminal 2 Departure area
Terminal 2 Flight information display system
Terminal 2 Flight information display system

Terminal 2 is where all Star Alliance activity takes place, as well as Lufthansa's handling partners. It has two halls G and H (for flights to Schengen treaty member states and non-members respectively), it has 75 parking positions, 24 with airbridges, 4 for regional planes eg CRJ-700 and BAe 146, and 47 boarding stations. It was opened on 29th June 2003 and is capable of handling 20-25 million passengers per year. The time needed for a connection inside the terminal is only 30 minutes, the airport and Lufthansa claim. With the new terminal, Munich's importance as a hub has much risen.

26 Airlines use Terminal 2.

  • Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
  • Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
  • Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson)
  • Air China (Beijing)
  • Air Malta (Malta)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • Carpatair (Timişoara)
  • Cimber Air (Billund)
  • Cirrus Airlines (Brno, Erfurt)
  • Condor (Agadir, Antalya, Bangkok, Barcelona, Bourgas, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fuchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, La Romana, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Madrid, Mahe Island, Málaga, Male, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Naples, Paphos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Punta Cana, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife, Varadero, Venice)
  • Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)
  • EgyptAir (Cairo)
  • Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg)
  • Jat Airways (Belgrade)
  • LOT Polish Airlines (Gdansk, Warsaw)
    • operated by Eurolot (Katowice, Poznan, Wroclaw)
  • Lufthansa (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Busan, Catania, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Denver [starts April 1, 2007], Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kiev-Boryspil, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montréal [seasonal], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zürich)
    • Lufthansa CityLine (Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Bremen, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Donetsk, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Florence, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hanover, Krakow, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Timişoara, Tirana [starts May 2007], Toulouse, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland-Sylt, Yerevan, Zagreb, Zürich)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Ancona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berne, Bologna, Cagliari, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pisa, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Trieste, Turin, Venice)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Dortmund, Florence, Graz, Olbia, Paderborn, Poznan, Stuttgart, Wroclaw, Zagreb)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Leipzig/Halle)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice)
    • operated by Privatair (Newark)
  • Luxair (Luxembourg, Saarbrucken)
  • Qatar Airways (Doha)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
  • South African Airways (Johannesburg [starts July 2007])
  • Spanair (Barcelona, Bilbao [starts June 2007], Valencia)
  • Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
  • Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
  • United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)

MUC Airport Central Area
MUC Airport Central Area

Shopping, Business and recreation area that connects the two terminals; the older part which belongs to terminal 2 is an indoor area. The newer part which was built as the same time as the 2nd terminal is a large outdoor area with an impressing tent-like, partly transparent roof.

As well as a passenger terminal, the airport has a cargo centre, there are several airlines which use it. It is used by:

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