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Munich Airport

Munich Airport (IATAcode MUC) is an airport 28 km north east of the city Munich, Germany. It is mainly used by Lufthansa and the Star-Alliance, which Lufthansa is in. In 2008, 34.53 million passengers used the airport. After Frankfurt am Main Munich is the second most important airport in Germany. It is the 8th largest in Europe.

History

Munich Airport was opened in 1992. Before that the airport was in Riem. Building was started in 1980.

Because Frankfurt am Main was so busy, Lufthansa began to use Munich for international flights. The Airport was named after Franz-Josef Strauss, a politician who was very interested in aeroplanes. People in Munich usually just call it München Flughafen or der Flughafen.

In 2003 the second airport terminal was opened, for people travelling on Lufthansa and Star-Alliance only.

A third runway is planned, because there is much traffic on Munich Airport, but people who live near the airport do not want it.

Geography

 
Munich International Airport

You can use the Munich S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 to go to the city. They both cost €8,80 and take about forty minutes. Taxis to Munich cost €50 and can get stuck because of traffic congestion.

The cities near the airport are Erding and Freising. They can be reached by Bus (~3-4 €) or Taxi (~€18).

The Munich Airport center (MAC) is between the two terminals but it is not so far. It has many shops and restaurants.

There is a Hilton Hotel near the airport and a second hotel is planned.

Terminals

Munich Airport has two terminals. Terminal 2 is newer and larger.

 
Munich International Airport at night

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is used by the non-Star Alliance airlines. The halls or areas are numbered A-F. It was opened on 17th May 1992 20 million passengers can use it every year. At the moment the terminal is being renovated, giving more room for shops and other things. The first halls have already been finished.

68 Airlines use Terminal One.

Variable Halls

  • Air Transat (Calgary, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver)
  • Hapagfly (Antalya, Brindisi, Cairo, Catania, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife)
  • HLX.com (Cagliari, Dubrovnik, Leipzig [starts October 30, 2006], Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Rijeka, Venice)

Hall A

  • dba (Athens [ends October 28, 2006], Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumcino [ends November 5, 2006], Thessaloniki [ends October 28, 2006])
  • Hola Airlines
  • Nordic Regional (Palma de Mallorca)

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

 
Iberia Airbus A320-200

Hall E

Arrivals only

Hall F

Hall F is a secure terminal used by Israeli airlines only.

Terminal 2

 
Terminal 2 Flight information display system

Terminal 2 is used by all Star Alliance flights. It was opened on 29th June 2003 and nearly 20-25 million passengers can use it every year. Many passengers like the terminal because connections are easy and fast. The time needed for a connection inside the terminal is only 25 minutes, the airport and Lufthansa say.

26 Airlines use Terminal 2.

  • Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
  • Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
  • Air Canada (Toronto)
  • Air China (Beijing)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • Carpatair (Timişoara)
  • Cimber Air (Billund)
  • Cirrus Airlines (Brno, Erfurt, Kiel [ends October 27, 2006], London-City)
  • 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, Sanat Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife, Varadero, Venice)
  • Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)
  • Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg)
  • LOT Polish Airlines (Gdansk, Warsaw)
    • operated by Eurolot (Katowice [starts October 29, 2006], Poznan, Wroclaw)
  • Lufthansa (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Catania, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, 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, Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
 
Lufthansa Regional Embraer E195

Central area

The central area is a shopping-mall that is in between 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 2nd terminal is a big outside area.

Cargo Area

The airport also has a cargo area. It is used by:

Munich Airport Media

  • An Air Toulouse Sud Aviation Caravelle at Munich Airport in 1993 with the construction site of today's Hilton Munich Airport in the background

  • Aerial view of Terminal 1 in 2001, when Terminal 2 was not yet operational

  • Check-in area at Terminal 1B

  • Boarding gate area at Terminal 1D

  • Check-in area at Terminal 2; the notable hanging sculpture advertising BMW has since been removed.

  • Boarding gate area at Terminal 2

  • A February 2016 photograph of Terminal 2 Satellite building still under construction

  • Munich Airport Center (MAC) during the annual Christmas market

  • Parking garage in front of Terminal 1

  • Visitors Park at Munich Airport


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