Munich International Airport, named Franz Josef Strauß International Airport (Strauß is often spelled Strauss in English) (German Franz-Josef-Strauß-Flughafen) is the airport located 28 km northeast of Munich, Germany, and is a hub for Lufthansa and Star Alliance partner airlines. It began operations in 1992, replacing the former international Airport in München-Riem and has the IATA airport code MUC, and its ICAO airport code is EDDM. When its construction was started in 1980 a village named Franzheim had to be demolished, its 500 inhabitants having been resettled in other places in the area.

As Lufthansa's home base at Frankfurt International Airport is heavily saturated with traffic and has capacity limits, cities with large frequencies are served through Munich Franz Josef Strauß airport as well as Frankfurt International. The airport was named after Franz Josef Strauß, a post WWII German politician with interest in the aviation industry and infrastructure. The full name is quite uncommon, even the airport authority is only named "Flughafen München Gesellschaft". In the Munich area, most people prefer the term "Flughafen München" (Munich Airport), sometimes "Flughafen München II" or simply MUC.

Munich city center can be reached by the S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 which take approxiametly forty minutes and cost about 8 Euro one way. Daily and tourist tickets may be the better choice. Taxi rides to downtown Munich cost about 50 Euro and can result in traffic jams. Car rental for Munich downtown destinations is not recommended. Public transport in Munich is widely available and reliable.

Smaller towns Freising and Erding are in reach of a taxi (15 minutes, 18 Euro). Many visit the historic town of Freising on quick stopover (from 2 hours) for people who want to see smaller Bavarian towns (Travellers go by taxi to Freising Marienplatz). There is also a scheduled bus line 635 to Freising.

The Munich Airport Center is situated between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. It is both a shopping mall and a business center with conference facilities. There is also the Airbräu restaurant with its home-brewed Beer, which offers Bavarian style food with a slight Italian influence. Beer price is 2 Euro for 0.5 litres. The shopping mall also offers a supermarket and a pharmacy.

In June 2003, Terminal 2 was finished, housing Star Alliance partners exclusively.

The following airlines serve Franz Josef Strauß International Airport:

• Adria Airways
• Aegean Airlines
• Aer Lingus
• Aero Lloyd
• Aeroflot
• African Safari Airlines
• Air Anatolia
• Air Berlin
• Air Canada
• Air China
• Air Dolomiti
• Air France
• Air Kazakhstan
• Air Littoral
• Air Malta
• Air Mauritius
• Air Seychelles
• Alisea Airlines
• Alitalia
• Atlas International
• Austrian Airlines
• BerlinJet
• BMIBaby
• British Airways
• British Airways Citiexpress
• Carpatair
• China Eastern
• Condor Thomas Cook
• Croatia Airlines
• CSA Czech Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Deutsche BA
• Easyjet
• Egypt Air
• El Al
• Emirates
• Etihad Airways
• Eurocypria
• European Air Express
• Eurowings
• Finnair
• Free Bird Airlines
• Germania Airlines
• Hamburg International
• Hapag-Lloyd
• Iberia Airlines
• Inter Express
• Israir
• Kavminvodyavia
• Khalifa Airways
• KLM
• KLM Cityhopper
• Lauda Air
• LOT Polish Airlines
• LTU International
• Lufthansa
• Luxair
• Maersk Air
• MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
• OLT
• Olympic Airlines
• OHY
• Pegasus Airlines
• Pulkovo Aviation
• Qatar Airways
• Royal Jordanian
• Scandinavian Airlines System
• Shorouk Airlines
• Siberia Airlines
• Sky Airline
• SkyEurope
• SN Brussels Airlines
• Spanair
• Sun d'Or
• Sun Express
• Swiss International Airlines
• Syrian Arab Airlines
• TACV Cabo Verde
• Tajikistan Airlines
• TAP Air Portugal
• TAROM Romania
• Thai Airways International
• Tunis Air
• Turkish Airlines
• Tyrolean
• United Airlines
• Ural Airlines
• US Airways

External Links

• Franz Josef Strauß International Airport Homepage