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Munich International Airport (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM), officially named Franz Josef Strauss International Airport (German: Flughafen München-Franz-Josef-Strauß) is located 28 km 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.

In 2005 the airport had 28.62 million passengers, making it the second most important airport in Germany and currently ranked 8th in Europe. 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 München-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 International 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.

Geography

Munich International Airport

Munich city center can be reached by the Munich S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 which take approximately forty minutes and cost about 8,80 Euro one way. Taxi rides to downtown Munich cost about 50 Euro and can encounter traffic jams. Public transport in Munich is widely available and reliable.

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

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. There is also the Airbräu restaurant and a shopping mall.

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.

Munich International Airport at night

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 houses most non-Star Alliance airlines, it has 60 stands, 19 airbridges 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. 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 (Olbia, Cagliari, Palermo, Naples, Venice, Rijeka, Dubrovnik)

Hall A

  • Air Berlin (Alicante, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca)
  • Air Europa (Palma Mallorca)
  • dba (Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Moscow-Domodedovo, Muenster/Osnabruck, Nice, Paris-Orly, Pristina, Rimini, Rome-Fiumcino, Thessaloniki)
  • Hola Airlines
  • LTU International (Adana, Alicante, Almeria, Arvidsjaur, Bangkok, Cancun, Cape Town, Catania, Colombo, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fort Myers, Fuchal, Hamburg, Hurghada, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Málaga, Male, Mauritius, Menorca, Miami, Monastir, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Phuket, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife, Vancouver, Varadero, Varna, Windhoek)
  • Nordic Regional (Palma de Mallorca)
  • VLM Airlines

Hall B

Hall C

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Outside Halls C and D

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

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 Flight information display system

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. 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, London-City)
  • Condor (Agadir, Antalya, Bangkok, Barcelona, Bourgas, Brussels, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fuchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, La Romana, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Mahe Island, Málaga, Male, Malta, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Paphos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Punta Cana, Sanat Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife, Varadero)
  • Croatia Airlines (Split, Zagreb)
  • Germanwings (Berlin-Schoenefeld, Cologne, Hamburg)
  • Jat Airways (Belgrade)
  • LOT Polish Airlines (Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw)
  • Lufthansa (Ankara, Athens, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Catania, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City [seasonal], Hong Kong, Istanbul, Izmir, Kiev, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami [seasonal], Montréal, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Muenster-Osnabruck, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Shanghai-Pu Dong, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tehran, Tokyo-Narita, Vancouver, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
    • Lufthansa CityLine (Amsterdam, Basel, Birmingham (UK), Bologna, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Bremen, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Florence, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hanover, Krakow, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester (UK), Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Muenster-Osnabruck, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Timişoara, Toulouse, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland-Sylt, Zagreb, Zürich)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Ancona, Basel, Berne, Bologna, Cagliari, Milan-Bergamo, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pisa, Prague, Rimini, Rome-Fiumicino, Trieste, Turin, Venice)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Dortmund, Florence, Graz, Olbia, Paderborn, Poznan, Prague, Stuttgart, Wroclaw, Zagreb)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Leipzig/Halle)
    • Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Bari, Belgrade, Budapest, Muenster-Osnabruck, Naples, Nice)
    • Privatair (Newark)
  • Luxair (Luxembourg, Saarbrucken)
  • Qatar Airways (Doha)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
  • Spanair (Valencia)
  • Swiss International Airlines (Zürich)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
  • Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
  • United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)
  • Varig (Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos)

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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