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MUNICH AIRPORT
 

Munich Airport is one of Europe's big hubs. The biggest part of the yearly 32,7 million passengers connect here, as they are happy with the short connecting times and the clear architectural line. Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners dominate the traffic at Munich airport. These airlines are handled in the 2003 opened terminal 2. Due to this circumstance there is a huge amount of free capacity in the terminal 1.
Munich Airport was opened in 1992, because the old town near airport Munich - Riem became to small and the people living in the surrounding of the airport protested against it. The new airport has two parallel runways ( 26-08 ) in a west-east direction, with 4km length and an independently operation. There are plans to build a third runway.
The architects round Prof. Hans-Busso von Busse set new standards in the terms of airport planning, which were adopted by other airports much later. But today there are big problems to adopt the existing facilities to today's needs. In the former days short distances between car and aircraft were the most important elements. The arrival and departure lounges are located on the same level and are seperated in 5 moduls. Today airport operators try to lead the passengers through many as possible shopping areas.

The traffic at Munich Airport is widely spread beside the Lufthansa dominated hub system:

• Scheduled flights in the intra German point-to-point traffic

• Scheduled point-to-point flights to the most important European cities

• Regional flights to nearly all secondary airports in Europe

• Frequent daily flights to the big European hubs

• Low cost flights to selected holiday areas

• Charterflights to touristical destinations (outgoing traffic)

• some cargo activities on weekdays
   

Beside these different kinds of traffic, there is also an interesting maintenance traffic of Lufthansa Technik, Air Berlin/LTU and Augsburg Airways. They have their own maintenance facilities here and conduct orders for other airlines. The former strong incoming traffic from the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia lost Munich Airport completely to Salzburg and Innsbruck. The bus transfer to ski areas and winter resorts is shorter and more comfortable from these austrian airports.