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Munich International Airport (MUC)
Airport Information
(Munich, Germany)
Officially known as the Franz Josef Strauss International Airport, being named after the Bavarian minister, Franz Josef Strauss, the airport is generally known to travellers as simply Munich International Airport (MUC). The facility can be found just 27 km / 17 miles north-east of central Munich and next to Achering, Attaching, Hallbergmoos and Schwaig, being easy to navigate, with an excellent sign system offering both German and English titles.
Munich Airport operates its original Terminal 1, as well as the newer terminal from which a vast number of airlines provide flights to an equally large number of domestic, European and international destinations. Total annual passenger figures have now topped 31 million, which makes it Germany's number two airport and one of the busiest in the whole of Europe, with more than 30,000 employees working onsite. In recent years, Munich International Airport has won a series of prestigious awards, being voted by Skytrax as the 'Best Airport in Europe' no less than three times.
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Public buses and trains run from the airport and into downtown Munich and the surrounding districts of Altstadt-Lehel, Haidhausen, Maxvorstadt and Schwabing. Green hotel shuttles are often available to those staying in reputable establishments, while taxis, privately operated transfer shuttles and limousines are all widely available. Further afield from Munich International Airport are the towns and cities of Starnberg, Freising and Dachau.
Munich International Airport (MUC) Information: History and Facilities
Although Munich International Airport did not actually open until 1992, construction work began twelve years before. A site was chosen close to Erdling, although this caused many problems, not least the difficult task of relocating the entire village of Franzheim and its 500 residents.
Munich Airport was actually built to replace the extremely busy Munich-Riem Airport, which dated back to 1936 and was serving upwards of 12 million passengers every year. By 2002, a second terminal building was completed, and soon afterwards, a third runway was needed.
Located across the present-day terminal buildings you will find a number of ATMs and banks, operated by Deutsche Post. HypoVereinsbank, ReiseBank and Sparkrasse. Also onsite at Munich International Airport is a post office in the public area, a hotel finding service, a dentist and doctors, Internet access in the centrally located Service Centre, a Kinderland play area, showers in the Main Concourse, a tax refund desk, and business facilities at the Munich Airport Centre and the adjacent Kempinski Airport Hotel.
Options for dining and refreshments are abundant and include a large number of bars and a genuine brew pub as well as Bavarian and international eateries. Particularly notable is the Allresto Snack Bar, Lobby Café, Piazza Monaco, Spazio Italia and Airbräu, a popular pub with its very own onsite brewery, also serving a variety of Bavarian-style dishes.
Shoppers will be delighted to find almost 200 outlets around Munich Airport, with favourites including Duty Free / Travel Value, Benetton, Boss Orange, Capri, Cartier, E-Edeka, Gateshop, Lufthansa WorldShop, Newspoint and Schönweitz Optic. For those arriving by car there are over 20,000 spaces in a total of ten different car parks, four of which are multi-storey.
Munich International Airport (MUC) Information: About Munich Tourism
Munich is one of Bavaria's largest cities and is a popular visitor destination on account of its multitude of cultural attractions and extensive number of beer gardens. Visitors will find an endless collection of magnificent churches among the city's many examples of fine architecture. The Altstadt or old town is home to both the old and the new town hall buildings, while areas such as Haidhausen and Maxvorstadt are home to chic coffee houses, museums and art galleries.
Each year, thousands upon thousands of visitors fly into Munich Airport (MUC) for one of the city's greatest attractions, its annual beer festival. Held each year at the very end of September and beginning of October, the Munich Beer Festival is part of the Oktoberfest celebrations, which attract up to six million visitors.
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