Munich Airport
Munich Metropolitan Region, Upper Bavaria, parts of Austria
- IATAMUC
- ICAOEDDM
- Serves
- Munich Metropolitan Region, Upper Bavaria, parts of Austria
- Operator
- Flughafen München GmbH
- Owner
- Not recorded
- Opened
- 17 May 1992
- Elevation
- 1,487 ft (453 m)
- Runways
- 2 (longest 4,000 m)
- Airlines based here
- Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine, Lufthansa City Airlines
- Website
- www.munich-airport.de
About the airport
Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München “Franz Josef Strauß“; IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and the surrounding region of Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria. Located 28.5 km (17.7 mi) northeast of Munich near the town of Freising, it is named after former Bavarian minister-president Franz Josef Strauss. According to the German Aeronautical Information Publication, the airport's official English name is Muenchen Airport. The airport is the second-busiest in Germany after Frankfurt Airport and the eleventh-busiest in Europe, handling 41.6 million passengers in 2024. It ranked as the 39th-busiest airport worldwide that year. Munich Airport is a hub for Lufthansa. It has two passenger terminals, two runways, and extensive cargo and maintenance facilities capable of handling wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A380.
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.