
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.

48.354°N, 11.786°E · 453 m s. n. m. (1.487 ft)
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
Munich Airport was named after Franz Josef Strauss, Minister-President of Bavaria from 1978 until 1988, who had supported the project and promoted Bavaria as an aviation hub. Strauss, a private pilot, also served as the first chairman of the Airbus supervisory board. The airport opened on 17 May 1992. Munich-Riem Airport, the city's previous airport, closed on 16 May 1992, and the IATA airport code MUC and the ICAO airport code EDDM were reassigned from Munich-Riem Aiport to the new Munich Airport. Passenger traffic more than doubled between 1995 and 2006, from under 15 million to over 30 million annually, despite the impact of the September 11 attacks. To accommodate growth, Terminal 2 opened in June 2003 as a dedicated facility for Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners. In 2015, more than 40 million passengers passed through Munich Airport for the first time. In 2018 the airport recorded 46.2 million passengers and 413,000 aircraft movements, serving 266 destinations. In 2015 Condor announced a new long-haul base at Munich, followed later that year by Transavia opening a base with four aircraft; Transavia closed the operation in 2017. In 2016 Eurowings established a base with routes operated by Air Berlin under a wet-lease agreement. In 2021, Lufthansa announced it would take over most of Eurowings’ Munich services. In November 2013 the airport introduced a new corporate design. The stylized "M" remained but adopted a different typeface and a colored dash, with animated versions installed at prominent locations such as the Terminal 2 satellite.
Other airlines with direct routes
List taken from the airport’s own website (September 2026).
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title = {{Munich Airport (MUC)}},
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