Following a break of more than a year, Lufthansa is resuming its scheduled service to Delhi today. The service to the Indian capital will be operated three times a week with modern Airbus A350 long-haul aircraft. 

Munich Airport welcomes a further increase in so-called cargo-only services. As of today, Qatar Airways is operating regular flights to and from Munich with a cargo version of its Boeing 777. The routing starts in Bangalore, India, and leads via Qatar's capital Doha to Munich and then on to Chicago. On the return flight, in exactly the opposite rotation, the freighter reaches Munich every Tuesday. Qatar Airways operates this service on behalf of the international logistics provider DB Schenker. 

The 2021 traffic figures for Munich Airport are still heavily marked by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Passenger numbers rose by 1.4 million more than twelve percent to a total of 12.5 million passengers. That said, this passenger volume represents only slightly over a quarter of the airport's record results for 2019 before the pandemic.

The first snowfall of the new year occurred last weekend. In order to ensure safe flight operations even under these weather conditions, Munich Airport has a winter service team standing by from early November to mid-April. In the event of ice and snow, the airport’s winter maintenance convoy moves out. It comprises 181 vehicles, including 66 tractors from the surrounding area. 

Starting tomorrow, the US carrier American Airlines will fly from Munich to Charlotte for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic in March last year. 

After a longer suspension of its scheduled flights due to the pandemic, Delta Air Lines now again operates four weekly long-haul services with Boeing 767-400 aircraft to its traffic hub in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The decision announced by Lufthansa today to station four additional, state-of-the-art long-haul Airbus A350s at its Bavarian hub has been welcomed by Flughafen München GmbH (FMG). 

There is now a new shopping attraction at Munich Airport: The long-established Munich company Hirmer has today opened a new store in Terminal 1.

During the Christmas season, Munich Airport offers passengers and visitors a wide range of services in numerous stores and restaurants. Comprehensive hygiene measures are in place to ensure the necessary protection against infection. 

20 months after it was closed due to the pandemic, the satellite building of Munich Airport’s Terminal 2 will be partially reopened on Wednesday, December 1, 2021: The airport and Lufthansa, which jointly operate Terminal 2 and its satellite building, will again use the south area of the non-Schengen level for the handling of flights to the United States. 

At Munich Airport, cargo is predominantly transported in large passenger aircraft as belly cargo. In previous years, this belly cargo made up around 90 percent of the total cargo volume in Munich. Against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic, however, the relative significance of the different types of air cargo in Munich has shifted considerably.

The end today of strict US entry restrictions for European travelers has further boosted transatlantic travel at Munich Airport, with Lufthansa today resuming flights to Miami for the first time in addition to the routes it has already begun operating again this year. Flights from Munich will land in the major Florida city again for the first time since the route was halted in March 2020 and will operate three times a week in the winter flight schedule.

Every day an average of 1,000 aircraft take off and land at Munich Airport. When winter weather hits this precisely timed system, it can have a big impact on the closely coordinated processes that keep traffic moving.

Traffic at Munich Airport has risen steadily since the beginning of the summer months. While only 570,000 passengers were registered at Munich Airport in the first quarter of the year due to the global Covid-19 pandemic and resulting travel restrictions, this figure more than tripled in August alone to over 1.8 million. At his visit to the Munich Press Club, the CEO of Flughafen München GmbH, Jost Lammers, added that passenger demand is still high after the end of the summer holidays.