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Airport news / 11 October 2011 /
From January through the end of September 2011, more travelers used Munich Airport than ever before in the first three quarters of a calendar year. The approximately 28.6 million arriving and departing passengers represented a 10 percent increase as compared with the same period a year earlier. Moreover, the last day of this traffic period – September 30, 2011 – produced yet another all-time high of just under 140,000 passengers, some 10,000 more than the record set last year. The number of aircraft movements increased by more than 6 percent in the first three quarters to 310,730.
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Airport news / 19 September 2011 /
The Supervisory Board of FMG, the Munich Airport operating company, has warmly welcomed the ruling in the planning permission process in favor of Munich Airport’s third runway, including the conditions for the protection of the airport’s neighbors and the surrounding region.
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Issue 3 2011 / 10 June 2011 /
At Munich Airport a total workforce of 30,000 employees with more than 500 companies ensure that more than 390,000 take-offs and landings with 35 million passengers can be handled every year.
A decisive factor in the quality of the passenger experience and comfort at Europe’s seventh largest airport is the smooth functioning interplay of the airport operating company, air traffic control, airlines, authorities and service providers. From the passengers’ point of view, the results of this team effort are more than respectable. In the world’s largest passenger survey, in which Skytrax collected responses from more than 11 million passengers, Munich has just been voted Europe’s best airport for the sixth time. A major factor behind these results is the continuously optimised teamwork manifested within many innovative projects. (more…)
Issue 3 2011 / 10 June 2011 /
Munich Airport’s IT Services Division is establishing an identity as a driver of innovation, and is developing next-generation software that is setting standards in the industry. Bucking the general trend, and resisting the prevailing outsourcing philosophy, CIO Michael Zaddach is relentless in getting new products onto the market. He is successful in these efforts thanks to the division’s own development team with expertise in airport core operations and a farsighted innovation strategy.
Michael Zaddach has headed Munich Airport’s IT Services Division for 10 years. In his early years he focused on implementing certified IT service management in IT operations and putting a consistent platform strategy in place. In this way he not only reduced IT costs, but also made long-term improvements to the quality of service. (more…)
Airport news / 8 June 2011 /
Passengers have a new way of obtaining quick and detailed information at Munich Airport. The new concept, known as InfoGates, will help passengers get their bearings more quickly and allow them to request individual directions to get where they want to go. (more…)
Airport news / 7 April 2011 /
To start the year, the growth rate at Munich Airport yet again kicked into a higher gear. For the first time in its history, the airport topped the 8 million passenger mark in the first three months of a calendar year, with the total number up 12 percent over the same period a year earlier. In its busiest March ever, the airport handled nearly 3 million passengers. Sharp increases were also seen in total aircraft movements. At just under 97,000 flights, the number of take-offs and landings in Munich in the first quarter was approximately 10 percent higher than in 2010.
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Airport news / 4 April 2011 /
Munich Airport has yet again been voted Europe’s best airport in the World Airport Awards. This marks the sixth time Munich has received this honor, which it won last year and four years in a row from 2005 to 2008. In the worldwide rankings, Munich Airport matched the outstanding number four position it achieved in the previous year. This was the outcome of the latest survey by the London-based independent aviation research institute Skytrax, based on the replies of over 11 million passengers from more than 100 countries. The award was presented to FMG, the Munich Airport operating company, at a ceremony in Copenhagen yesterday evening on the occasion of the Passenger Terminal international trade fair.
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Airport news / 21 February 2011 /
The latest sequel in the success story: After the Munich Airport and Lufthansa boards gave the green light to start building the new Terminal 2 satellite facility at Munich Airport, the two companies have now released details of the expansion project. (more…)
Issue 5 2010 / 1 October 2010 /
With double-digit increases, Munich Airport returns to the successful growth of recent years
When the global financial and economic crisis took hold in the summer of 2008, it was not long before the international aviation sector felt the effects. In the first half of 2008, Munich Airport posted a strong six percent increase in total passengers, four percent in airfreight and three percent in the number of take-offs and landings. During the next six months, the picture changed completely. In the second half of the year, growth in the number of passengers and the cargo tonnage turned into decreases. The same happened to the trend in total aircraft movements. In 2009 the air travel industry again had a difficult year. In Munich we experienced our first year-on-year decrease in total passengers following six consecutive years of growth. The five percent decline in the passenger figure at Munich Airport almost exactly matched the rate of shrinkage of the German economy as a whole in 2009. (more…)
Airport news / 20 July 2010 /
The consulting team of FMG, the Munich Airport operating company, has been awarded a large, new contract for the commissioning, relocation and operation of airports. Under the contract, which has a total volume in the double-digit mil-lions, the FMG experts will be busy for four and a half years at two airports in the Sultinate of Oman.
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Airport news / 14 May 2010 /
May 17th of this year will mark the 18th anniversary of the start of operations at the new Munich Airport. The “coming-of-age” celebration is the latest highlight in a long success story that has seen this airport advance to take its place alongside Europe’s major air transportation hubs. After seeing 12 million travelers in 1992, its first operating year, the new airport handled nearly 33 million passengers in 2009 – almost three times as many. Since May 17, 1992, Munich Airport has counted approximately 416 million passengers, 5.7 million take-offs and landings and more than 2.5 million tons of airfreight.
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Airport news / 25 March 2010 /
Munich Airport has once again won the voting as Europe’s best airport at the World Airport Awards 2010 – a title won by Munich four years in a row from 2005 to 2008. At the same time, Munich Airport moved up in the rankings of the world’s best airports from fifth to fourth. This was the outcome of the latest survey by Skytrax, a London-based independent aviation research institute, with more than nine million respondents worldwide. Dr Michael Kerkloh, the CEO of Munich Airport, accepted the latest honor at an awards ceremony in Brussels on the occasion of the international Passenger Terminal Expo.
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Issue 6 2008, Past issues / 3 December 2008 /
Ecological sustainability has traditionally been a key element in Munich Airport’s environmental strategy and policy, and will become increasingly important in the future as the airport continues to pursue initiatives, not only in the form of innovative environmental projects.
More than 60% of Munich’s 1550 hectares are green areas, and FMG, the Munich Airport operating company, has purchased and set aside further tracts of woodland and wetlands in the immediate airport region as conservation areas, to compensate for the areas paved over when the airport was built. In the 1990s, Munich Airport became the first airport worldwide with a hydrogen fuelling station for apron buses and other vehicles. The pilot research project, funded by the State of Bavaria, was successfully completed in late 2006.
In 2005 Munich Airport received environmental certification under EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme) and DIN ISO 14001, which demonstrates Munich Airport’s relentless commitment to go above and beyond environmental regulations, set at the EU and national level, mandating environmental protection standards at airports. The focus is now on establishing new and streamlining existing sustainability measures at Munich Airport in line with certification standards. Certification under the ISO 14001 and EMAS standards was successfully renewed this year and remains a key element in FMG’s environmental strategy. (more…)
Issue 3 2007, Past issues / 7 June 2007 /
We spoke with Dr. Michael Kerkloh, CEO, Munich Airport about the ground handling operation at Munich International Airport. (more…)
Issue 1 2007, Past issues / 6 February 2007 /
Munich Airport’s impressive, recent growth shows no sign of slowing. Over 30 million passengers were recorded in 2006, the first time that the airport has broken the barrier in a single operating year, and expansion plans are already in place to accommodate future demand. However, as Michael Zaddach explains, success can’t be achieved or sustained through construction alone. IT underpins Munich’s growth, invisibly smoothing operations and the processing of ever greater numbers of passengers and volumes of baggage.
Just days before Christmas 2006, Munich Airport welcomed its 30 millionth passenger for the year, cementing its claim to a permanent spot among Europe’s major air transport hubs. This milestone marked the start of the latest chapter in Munich Airport’s success story, which saw its most recent high point with the opening of Terminal 2 in 2003. Airport planners are already at work on new infrastructure projects, responding to the unabated growth in passenger numbers, take-offs and landings, and cargo volume at Munich Airport. In 2007, construction will start on a new freight facility, and an additional hotel is in the planning stage. (more…)
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