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Munich Airport

Franz Josef Strauß International Airport
Flughafen München Franz Josef Strauß
Munich International Airport

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IATA: MUC – ICAO: EDDM
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen München GmbH
Location Munich, Germany
Elevation AMSL 1,487 ft / 453 m
Coordinates 48°21′14″N 11°47′10″E / 48.35389, 11.78611
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  km ( mi) 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, having the second most passenger traffic in Germany and the 30th in the world. 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]

History

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 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. As always when there is such a project, there is considerable opposition from the neighboring people and lawsuits against the runway have already been announced.

Geography

Munich International Airport
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Munich International Airport

Munich city center can be reached by the Munich S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 which take approximately forty-five minutes and cost about €8.80 one way. Taxi rides to downtown Munich cost about €50 and can encounter traffic jams. There are plans to build a direct magnetic levitation train (Transrapid) connection to the city center.

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

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.

Terminals

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. In addition there is a separate General Aviation Terminal serving private and corporate planes.

Munich International Airport at night
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Munich International Airport at night

Terminal 1

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.

Hall A

  • Air Berlin (Alicante, Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Djerba, Düsseldorf, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Hurghada, Lamezia Terme, London-Stansted [starts October 28, 2007], Málaga, Milan-Bergamo [starts October 28, 2007], Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Pristina, Rimini, Saarbrücken [starts October 28, 2007], Sharm el Sheikh, Westerland/Sylt)
  • Niki (Vienna) [starts October 28, 2007]
  • LTU International (Adana, Alicante, Almeria, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancun, Cape Town, Catania, Colombo, Djerba, Düsseldorf, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fort Myers, Funchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Korfu/Kerkyra, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Málaga, Male, Mauritius, Menorca, Miami, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Vancouver, Varadero, Varna, Windhoek, Zakinthos)
  • Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Rostock/Laage)

Hall B

Hall C

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

Hall D

Hall E

Arrivals Only

Hall F

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.

Central area (Zentralbereich)

  • Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver) [seasonal]
  • TUIfly (Antalya, Araxos, Bari, Bodrum, Cagliari, Cairo, Catania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Lanzarote, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Rijeka, Rimini, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Venice)

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 Departure area
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Terminal 2 Departure area

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 airport and Lufthansa claim that the time needed for a connection inside the terminal is only 30 minutes. With the new terminal completed, Munich's importance as a hub has substantially increased. It´s rumored that Lufthansa wants to increase the capacity of terminal 2.

26 Airlines use Terminal 2.

Ebene/Level 3

  • Aegean Airlines (Athens, Heraklion, Thessaloniki)
  • Air Malta (Malta)
  • Condor (Agadir, Antalya, Barcelona, Bourgas, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Madrid, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife-South)
  • EgyptAir (Cairo)
  • Qatar Airways (Doha)
  • Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk)

Ebene/Level 4

Central area

MUC Airport Central Area
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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 second terminal, is a large outdoor area with an impressive tent-like, partly transparent roof. It also contains a hotel managed by Kempinski.

Cargo area

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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