{"id":22149,"date":"2022-05-17T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=22149"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:20:20","slug":"munich-airport-celebrates-milestone-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/munich-airport-celebrates-milestone-birthday\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Munich Airport Celebrates Milestone Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exactly 30 years ago, on the night of May 17, 1992, Munich\nAirport moved to its current location about 30 kilometers northeast of Munich.\nSince then, Munich Airport has handled around 850 million passengers and almost\nsix million tons of air freight on a total of nearly ten million flights to and\nfrom Munich. In the record year of 2019, Munich Airport recorded a total of\nnearly 48 million passengers and approximately 417,000 takeoffs and landings.\nThe number of aircraft movements has thus more than doubled since the airport\nopened in 1992, while passenger numbers have nearly quadrupled over the same\nperiod. And in fact, the volume of air freight has increased six-fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This above-average growth was mainly driven by the further\ndevelopment of the new airport into a major European hub airport. Munich\nAirport’s success story was interrupted in March 2020 by the Corona pandemic,\nwhich had a massive impact on air traffic worldwide. In the meantime, a\nsignificant recovery followed the lifting of many travel restrictions. During\nthis year’s Easter vacations, traffic in Munich reached more than 70 percent of\npre-crisis levels for the first time again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airport’s relocation from Munich’s suburb of Riem to the\nnortheast between the cities of Freising and Erding received worldwide\nattention. In just one night, around 5,000 people with almost 700 trucks managed\nthis mega move and the punctual start of operations on the following morning.\nThanks to the expertise and reputation gained in this way, Munich Airport has\nsince been operating successfully as a consultant for airport relocations and\nairport openings worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As strategic partners, Munich Airport and Lufthansa joined\nforces when they reached an agreement in 1998 to jointly build, finance and\noperate Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. To date, this cooperation between the\nairport and the airline is unique within the international aviation industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the Munich Airport Center (MAC), which opened in\nSeptember 1999, the airport gained a state-of-the-art multifunctional service\ncenter. Today, the MAC with its spectacular glass membrane roof and the large\nforum area below is not only an architectural highlight, but also the airport’s\ncommercial center and marketplace. The opening of Terminal 2 in June 2003\nprovided the necessary capacity expansion. Lufthansa and its partners have\nexclusive use of the terminal, which is designed to meet the specific requirements\nof transfer traffic. It quickly scored points with its users thanks to its\nmulti-faceted retail and gastronomy offers, attractive rest areas and\nworkplaces, as well as a wide range of service facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Skytrax Munich Airport ranks for years among\nthe most passenger-friendly airports in Europe and also received the award as a\n5-star airport. The opening of Germany’s first midfield terminal in 2016 marked\nthe next significant expansion, adding a capacity of 11 million to a total capacity\nof 50 million passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just three years after opening the mid-field terminal, the\nfirst construction phase began in April 2019 for the new pier at Terminal 1,\nwhich will significantly improve the service and quality of stay in Terminal 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Munich Airport is known for its spirit of innovation and\ndiversification. In March 2018, the kick-off for the LabCampus took place in\nthe northwest of the airport: a cross-industry innovation and collaboration\ncenter on the airport site. LAB 48, the first building on the LabCampus, will\nbe completed soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jost Lammers, CEO of Munich Airport, takes the airport’s\nbirthday as an opportunity to look to the future with confidence: “Even\nthough its impressive success story was interrupted by the massive impact of\nthe Covid 19 pandemic, Munich remains a main player in the Champions League of\nEuropean airports. In these weeks, we are seeing the enormous momentum with\nwhich air traffic is currently picking up again after two years of crisis. I am\ntherefore confident that we will soon reach pre-crisis levels again and\nsubsequently grow beyond them.”\n\nA film review featuring the milestone of the\nlast 30 years: https:\/\/youtu.be\/2C0gG-cCqps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exactly 30 years ago, on the night of May 17, 1992, Munich Airport moved to its current location about 30 kilometers northeast of Munich. Since then, Munich Airport has handled around 850 million passengers and almost six million tons of air freight on a total of nearly ten million flights to and from Munich. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MFZ0740-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22154,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions\/22154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}