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MUNICH AIRPORT
 

Munich Airport is one of Europe's big hubs. The biggest part of the yearly 28 millions passengers connect here, as they are happy with the short connecting times and the clear architectural line. The traffic of Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners is dominated by small jets and turboporops. 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 opend 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 now two parallel runways in a west-east direction, which are 4km long each and can be operated independently. There are plans to build a third runway.
The architects round Prof. Hans-Busso von Busse setted 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 facility to today's needs. In the former days short distances between the car and the aircraft were the most important elements. The arrival and departure lounges are located on the same level and are seperated in 4 areas. Today airport operators try to lead the passengers through many as possible shopping areas. If this is really the wish of the passengers can be questioned? Demand and supply will determin the further development.

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 a very interesting maintenance traffic as Lufthansa Technik, LTU International, flyDBA and Augsburg Airways have their own maintenance facilities here and conduct orders for other airlines, too. The former strong incoming traffic from the UK lost Munich Airport completly to to the airports of Salzburg and Innsbruck. For this kind of traffic is the long bus transfer from the area north of Munich to the skiing areas and winter resorts simply too long.