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Etihad Airways celebrates 20th anniversary and increases number of flights to Munich

The new winter flight schedule begins at Munich Airport on the last weekend in October, which lasts from Sunday, October 27, 2024, to Saturday, March 29, 2025. 

Vietnam Airlines celebrated its premiere at Munich Airport with flights to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) will be a new tenant of LabCampus GmbH, Munich Airport’s innovation campus. The university of excellence is not only moving into around 20,400 m² of the innovation hub at Munich Airport, but is also establishing a “Convergence Center” there, among other things. The new TUM Convergence Center creates a unique ecosystem in which students, scientific talents, founding teams, business partners, and citizens can work together in an integrative and innovative way on pioneering projects. 

Munich AirportAcademy and Istanbul Airport's IGA Academy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to jointly develop innovative training programs and take education in the aviation industry to a new level. This collaboration will enable both academies to meet the changing needs of the aviation industry and provide students with a more comprehensive learning experience. 

The "Airports for Innovation" (A4I) initiative was launched in 2021 by the Spanish airport group Aena and Aeroporti di Roma. Munich Airport is now also a new member of this network, along with seven other airports: Athens International Airport, Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur, Dallas Fort Worth Airport, Vancouver International Airport, Dubai International Airport, Narita Airport and Oman Airports. 

At the end of the Bavarian summer holidays, Munich Airport can report strong traffic figures: 6.2 million passengers used the airport in the past six weeks, ten percent more than in the previous year. The peak day was Sunday, September 1st – on that day 143,000 passengers used Munich Airport. The high demand for air travel was also reflected in the utilization of the aircraft: This was 86 percent during the holidays - an absolute record value. 

Airbräu, the brewery at Munich Airport, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. A week of festivities awaits visitors, chock full of anniversary offers and a varied program of music, a Ferris wheel, a wheat beer-themed event carousel and culinary highlights through September 15th, 2024.

Another step towards "Net Zero 2035", the sustainability strategy of Munich Airport, has been taken: MAN Truck & Bus Germany has delivered the first ten electric solo passenger buses to AeroGround Flughafen München GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Munich Airport. A further 27 electric buses of MAN Lion's City E 12 and E 18 models will be put into operation by the end of the year. There is an option to purchase 25 additional buses.

Long-haul non-stop flights between Munich Airport and destinations in the USA have undergone an enormous development and are continuing to grow. When the airport opened in 1992, there were 39 departures to five destinations each week. Today, there are 140 departures to 14 different airports. Yesterday, on Monday, the airport recorded the 50-millionth passenger to travel on the non-stop service to the United States since the airport was established.

For Munich Airport, 2023 was characterized by the further recovery of air traffic after the coronavirus pandemic and, above all, a return to profitability.  Entitled "MOVING OUR WORLD", the 14th integrated report that Munich Airport has now published highlights the key developments that took place in 2023.

More than 19 million passengers in the first half of the year - flights at record load factor

Munich Airport International (MAI), the consulting subsidiary of Munich Airport, hosted a three-week training program for members of Hamad International Airport's (DOH) national talent development program 'ENJAZ'.

The new connection to Bahrain expands the wide range of flights between Munich and the Gulf States, which is also of great importance for tourism in Bavaria.

FlyLili launched its first flight from Brasov to Munich on June 28, 2024. The Romanian airline now offers scheduled flights to Brasov, located on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.  Flight FL1001 lands in Munich at 08:10 and flies back to Romania from Terminal 1 as FL1002 at 09:20.

Munich Airport and Lufthansa Airlines are launching a new partnership with Miles & More. This unique cooperation between an airport, an airline and a loyalty program offers travelers and visitors to Munich Airport an even more attractive shopping experience. From now on, participants can collect and redeem miles in many stores at the airport.

An innovative system for sustainable energy generation is currently in use at Munich Airport: a container with photovoltaic panels and wind rotors from FlowGen, a company specializing in green energy system solutions. In cooperation with Munich Airport, the mobile energy container is being used to charge electric vehicles.

The new pier at Terminal 1 of Munich Airport is progressing rapidly: after the exterior façade was completed last year, the interior fit-out is currently making great strides.

Lufthansa Cargo is expanding its operations at the southern German hub and will be operating freighters from the hub for the first time from 6 July 2024. An A321 freighter will connect Munich with Istanbul Airport twice a week, complementing the existing belly network from Munich. The new freighter connection is planned every Saturday and Sunday with flight numbers LH8350 / LH8351 and LH8346 / LH8347. Lufthansa Cargo customers can book their shipments on the new route with immediate effect.

On Friday afternoon, 218 passengers flew with Lufthansa from Munich to Seattle for the first time. The airline is now offering three weekly flights from Munich to the US metropolis on the Pacific using the most sustainable long-haul aircraft, an Airbus A350. This makes Seattle its fifth destination on North America's West Coast after San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver.

Munich Airport International GmbH (MAI) and its subsidiary, Munich Airport NJ LLC (MANJ) Operators of Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), are proud to announce that EWR Terminal A was recognized as the “World’s Best New Airport Terminal,” during the 2024 Skytrax World Airport Awards held at the Passenger Terminal Expo & Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. 

Thanks to significant passenger growth of 17 percent, Munich Airport (FMG) recorded a positive annual result (EAT) of EUR 25 million for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. Revenue increased to approximately EUR 1.4 billion. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) moved back into the positive range for the first time since 2019 at EUR 115 million.