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Munich
Airport is one of Europe's big hubs. The biggest part of the yearly
36,9 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. In Summer 2011 the government gave the permission
to build a third runway (north east of airport) and an enlargement of
Terminal 2.
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
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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. |
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