Munich International Airport

	IATA	MUC
	ICAO	EDDM
	Type	Public
	Run By	Flughafen München GmbH
	Closest Town	Munich
	Elevation Ft	1470
	Elevation M	448

	Runway Angle	08R/26L
	Runway Length F	13,123
	Runway Length M	4,000
	Runway Surface	Paved

	Runway Angle	08L/26R
	Runway Length F	13,123
	Runway Length M	4,000
	Runway Surface	Paved

Munich International Airport , officially named '''Franz Josef Strauss International Airport''' (, 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.

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 , a post World War II German conservative Politician who was an Officer in the Wehrmacht during the war, and who, later on, played an important role in German politics, then representing democratic, albeit strongly conservative values and "Bavaria as such". Strauss had been prime minister in Bavaria (the federal state where the airport is located) for a long time; 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.

In June 2003 , Terminal 2 was finished, housing Star Alliance partners exclusively.

GEOGRAPHY

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 .

Terminal One

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)

Hapag-Lloyd (Antalya, Brindisi, Cairo, Catania, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Malaga, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife)

Hapag-Lloyd Express (Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle, Olbia)

Hall A

Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)

Air Europa (Palma Mallorca)

Dba (Athens, Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Florence, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Moscow-Domodedovo, Muenster-Osnabruck, Nice, Paris, Rimini, Rome Fiumcino, Thessaloniki)

Germania (Ekaterinburg, Pristina)

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, Malaga, 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, Varadero, Varna, Windhoek)

Sterling (Copenhagen)

Hall B

British Airways (Bristol, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)

Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)

Hamburg International (Ankara, Hurghada, Izmir, Luxor)

MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)

OLT (Bremen)

Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)

Tunis Air (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)

Hall C

Aeroflight (Prestina, Rhodes, Simferopol, Tel Aviv)

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)

African Safari Airlines (Mombasa)

Air Berlin (Malaga, Palma, Palma Manorca)

Air Cairo (Hurghada, Luxor)

Air Malta (Malta)

Air Via (Bourgas, Varna)

Atlas Jet International (Antalya, Istanbul)

Atlas Blue (Agadir)

Carpatair Romania (Timisoara)

Czech Airlines (Prague)

DONBASSAERO (Donetsk, Odessa)

Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna)

Egyptair (Cairo, Hurghada)

Emirates (Dubai)

Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)

Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos)

Inter Express (Antalya, Bodrum)

KMV (Mineralnye Vody)

MNG Airlines (Antalya)

Onur Air (Antalya)

Pulkovo Aviation (Moscow-Vnukovo, St. Petersburg)

Polet Airlines (Voronezh)

Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum)

Royal Jordanian (Amman)

Siberia Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)

Sky Airline (Antalya)

Sun Express (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)

Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus)

TACV (Sal)

Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe)

TAROM Romania (Bucharest, Cluj, Sibiu)

Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir)

Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)

Hall D

Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)

Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles De Gaulle)

Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)

Atlas International (Istanbul)

Easyjet (London-Stansted)

Finnair (Helsinki)

Flyniki (Ibiza)

Flynordic (Stockholm)

Icelandair (Reykjavik)

Iberia Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid)

Intersky Luftfahrt (Elba)

KLM (Amsterdam)

--- KLM Cityhopper

Nordic Regional (Palma Manorca)

Olympic Airlines (Athens)

SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)

Swiss International Air Lines (Basel, Zürich)

Voli Regionali (Venice)

Windjet (Forli)

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 (Tel Aviv)

El Al (Tel Aviv)

Israir (Tel Aviv)

Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)

Terminal Two

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 Two.

Aegean Airlines (Athens, Saloniki)

Adria Airways (Ljubljana)

Air Alps (Bolzano)

Air Baltic (Riga, Vilnius)

Air Canada (Toronto)

Air China (Beijing)

Austrian Airlines (Vienna)

Carpatair (Timisoara)

Cimber Air (Billund)

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, Mahe Island, Malaga, 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 {Link without Title} , Hong Kong, Istanbul, Izmir, Kiev, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Montréal, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Muenster-Osnabruck, Naples, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, San Francisco, Shanghai-Pudong, 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, Timisoara, 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)