| 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 | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 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 28 km (17 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 2007, for the third consecutive year, Munich Airport was named the "Best Airport in Europe" and fourth best worldwide (after Hong Kong International Airport, Incheon International Airport and Singapore Changi Airport) by Skytrax, the air transport research company.[1]
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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.
Ground transportation
Train, Bus and Taxi
Munich city centre 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. There are plans to build a direct magnetic levitation train (Transrapid) connection to the city centre. Alternatively, Lufthansa City Airport Bus connects Munich airport with Munich central station. This bus also stops at the Munich U-Bahn stop Nordfriedhof (U6) in northern Munich. A single ticket costs €10 and a return ticket is €16. The journey time is about 40 minutes from the central station to the airport, but depends on traffic. Taxi rides to Munich city centre cost about €50 and is a comfortable way to reach central Munich, but can encounter traffic jams. The nearby cities of Freising and Erding can be reached by taxi (15 minutes, €18) or by bus. There are also regular bus services to Ingolstadt, Augsburg and Salzburg, amongst others.
Car
Munich airport is connected to downtown Munich via the A 92 and A 9 motorways. The Munich ring motorway A 99 can also be reached via the A92, which provides relatively easy access to most places in and around Munich.
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.
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, Arrecife, Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen [ends January 2008], Cologne/Bonn, Djerba, Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Hurghada, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas, London-Stansted, Málaga, Milan-Bergamo [ends January 2008], Monastir, Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pristina, Saarbrücken, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Westerland/Sylt)
- Niki (Vienna)
- LTU International (Aruba, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancun, Cape Town, Colombo, Fort Myers [seasonal], Male, Miami [seasonal], Phuket, Port Louis, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Vancouver [seasonal], Varadero, Windhoek)
- Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Rostock/Laage)
Hall B
- Air Mauritius (Port Louis)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Condor (Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Barcelona, Bourgas, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife-South)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Hamburg International (Ankara, Bodrum, Lourdes/Tarbes, Pristina, Sulaymaniyah)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
Hall C
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa)
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Blue Wings (Antalya)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
- Polet Airlines (Voronezh)
- Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen)
- Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Sky Airline (Antalya)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TACV Cabo Verde Airlines (Sal)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Sibiu)
- Transaero (St. Petersburg)
- Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
- UTair Aviation (Tyumen)
Hall D
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air France operated by Brit Air (Lyon)
- Alitalia
- Alitalia operated by Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- easyJet (Edinburgh, London-Stansted)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- Icelandair (Reykjavik-Keflavik) [seasonal]
- InterSky (Elba) [seasonal]
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo, Warsaw)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
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.
- Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Israir (Tel Aviv)
- Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
Central area (Zentralbereich)
- Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver) [seasonal]
- TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Araxos, Arrecife, Bari, Cagliari, Cairo, Catania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Las Palmas, Luxor, Mahon, Marrakesch, Marsa Alam, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Rijeka, Rimini, Sal, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki)
Terminal 2
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, Thessaloniki)
- Air Malta (Malta, Catania)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara [seasonal], Istanbul-Atatürk)
Ebene/Level 4
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson)
- Air China (Beijing)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Cimber Air (Billund)
- Cirrus Airlines (Erfurt)
- Croatia Airlines (Split, Zagreb)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Katowice, Gdansk, Warsaw)
- operated by Eurolot (Poznan, Wroclaw)
- Lufthansa (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Boston [seasonal], Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Busan, Catania, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Denver, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kiev-Boryspil, Larnaca [begins March 2008], Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Montréal [seasonal], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang [begins June 8, 2008], Singapore [begins June 8, 2008], Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Ancona, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pisa, Trieste, Turin, Venice, Wroclaw)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Dortmund, Florence, Graz, Krakow, Linz, Olbia, Paderborn, Poznan, Sibiu, Stuttgart, Wroclaw, Zagreb)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Klagenfurt (starts March 2008))
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Birmingham, Belgrade, Bologna, Bratislava, Bremen, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Donetsk, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Florence, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hanover, Krakow, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Timişoara, Tirana, Toulouse, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland/Sylt, Yerevan, Zagreb, Zürich)
- Luxair (Luxembourg, Saarbrücken)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Spanair (Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
- US Airways (Philadelphia)
Central area
The Munich Airport Center (MAC) is a shopping, business and recreation area that connects the two terminals; the older part which belongs to Terminal 1 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:
- Bluebird Cargo
- British Airways World Cargo (Delhi)
- Cargoitalia
- Cathay Pacific Cargo
- DHL Air
- Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
- FedEx Express
- Korean Air Cargo
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Qatar Airways Cargo (Doha)
- TNT Airways
- West Air Sweden
External links
- Franz Josef Strauß International Airport Homepage
- Munich Airport Panorama
- Information about Munich International Airport
- Airport information for EDDM at World Aero Data
