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Munich

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📍 Coordinates 48.3537, 11.7861

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About Munich

Munich Airport is the international airport of Munich, the capital of Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt. It serves as a secondary hub for Lufthansa. The airport is located 28.5 km (17.7 mi) northeast of Munich near the city of Freising.

Munich Airport is the only airport in Europe rated 5-Stars by Skytrax. It is famous for the "Munich Airport Center" (MAC), a large outdoor area between terminals used for events, including a Christmas market and an ice rink. Terminal 2 was specifically designed as a hub terminal for Lufthansa and Star Alliance partners.

The airport has two parallel runways. A planned third runway has been the subject of long-term legal and political disputes. The airport features its own brewery, Airbräu, offering travelers authentic Bavarian beer and food. It is praised for its ease of connections and pleasant atmosphere.

Munich Airport is owned via a three-way partnership: the Free State of Bavaria holds 51 per cent, the Federal Republic of Germany owns 26 per cent, and the City of Munich itself holds the remaining 23 per cent through a specific corporate vehicle called FMG (Flughafen München GmbH). Its ICAO code EDDM signals its position in the German "ED" region, and its official name of "Franz Josef Strauss Airport" honours the former Bavarian Minister-President whose 1988 death occurred while the airport was still under construction; the naming choice was politically contentious because Strauss was closely associated with the CSU and left-of-centre Bavarians objected to the tribute. The airport replaced Munich-Riem, an older Nazi-era field constructed for the 1938 Munich Agreement negotiations, which had become dangerously encircled by postwar suburban development.

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At zoom 12, Munich Airport's two widely-spaced parallel runways run east–west across flat Bavarian farmland—the airport sits in open countryside about 30 km northeast of Munich city centre. The terminal complex and the distinctive Munich Airport Center (MAC) sit between the runways as a compact grey cluster. The surrounding landscape is a patchwork of green agricultural fields with scattered small Bavarian villages and dark patches of woodland. The Erdinger Moos (a former moorland) gives the area a distinctly flat, open character. The S-Bahn railway line connecting to Munich is visible running south from the terminals.

Additional features fine-tune the identification. The airport's own visitor park at the northern end includes a decommissioned Junkers Ju-52 and a Douglas DC-3 permanently parked on grass, appearing as distinctive silvery relics amid the modern taxiways. The MAC (Munich Airport Center) between the terminals shows a distinctive tent-shaped translucent roof that hosts the annual Christmas market with its wooden chalets arranged in radial patterns. The Isar river's braided channels flow 12 kilometres to the south with characteristic gravel bars visible as pale stripes. The Erding Air Base of the German Air Force sits 8 kilometres northeast as a smaller military field with a single east–west runway, and the Freising cathedral rises on a distinctive hilltop 12 kilometres southwest with its baroque towers visible in profile against the flat farmland.

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IATA Code MUC

Passengers/Year ~48 million

Runways 2

Opened 1992

Hub For Lufthansa

ICAO Code EDDM

Distance to city 28.5 km northeast of centre

Curfew 22:00–06:00 (strict)

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Munich Airport is one of only a handful of airports worldwide with a 5-star Skytrax rating—the only airport in Europe to hold this distinction.
The airport has its own brewery, Airbräu, which is the only airport brewery in the world. It serves fresh Bavarian beer brewed on-site in the beer garden between terminals.
Terminal 2 was jointly built and is co-operated by Lufthansa and Munich Airport—a unique arrangement where an airline co-owns its terminal.
The airport replaced the old Munich-Riem Airport in 1992 and was built on the Erdinger Moos wetland, requiring massive land drainage engineering.
The Airbräu brewery inside Munich Airport produces roughly 100,000 litres of beer per year across three main varieties—a helles lager, a wheat beer and a seasonal bock—all brewed on the airport premises using Bavarian hops from the Hallertau region 50 kilometres to the north; passengers consume most of the output on-site, though some is sold in gift packs at the airport's tourist shop
The airport's Terminal 2 satellite building, opened in April 2016, is served by an underground driverless people-mover called the Personal Rapid Transit System that runs on a purpose-built 400-metre concrete guideway; the 55-second journey occurs entirely below ground level and is monitored from a control room in the Munich Airport Center that also oversees baggage handling
In 1958 the site that would eventually become the airport was still an area of drained peat bog with 15 small farms tending livestock on wet meadows; the last farmer to leave, Josef Meier of Franzheim, moved out on 30 September 1985 after the state government paid him 780,000 Deutsche Marks in compensation for his 3.7-hectare property—the highest single settlement of the airport expropriation programme

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