Climate and environmental protection

Renovation work gets under way at Munich Airport’s Terminal 2: The central security checkpoint at Munich Airport’s Terminal 2 is being modernized and equipped with state-of-the-art technology, with completion scheduled for fall 2024. As a result, passengers of Lufthansa and its partner airlines will benefit from faster, more effective procedures and much greater convenience.

Munich Airport is launching a unique and long-term climate-protection project: FMG has come to an agreement with the Count Arco’sche Forest Administration to turn existing forests in eastern Bavaria into “climate forests” that store as much carbon dioxide as possible. The project was unveiled to the public today at Munich Airport’s Visitors Park by the Bavarian Finance Minister and Supervisory Board Chairman of FMG, Albert Füracker, airport CEO Jost Lammers, and Max-Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley. 

Customs investigators at Munich Airport: Undercover customs investigator regularly go looking for narcotics at Munich Airport. Couriers are getting ever more creative in how they hide their drugs, but the investigators have an unerring ability to find them out.

Argo AI's autonomous vehicles will begin testing at Munich Airport on an asphalted area of around 55,000 square meters. Around four months after the start of construction work, the management of Munich Airport has now been able to hand over the preliminary test track of the new development site, which was completed on schedule. In the course of the construction work, 220 cubic meters of concrete were used, cable conduits with a total length of 16,000 meters were laid and a fence more than one kilometer long was erected. Among other things, 16 LED floodlight masts, each 18 meters high, are used to illuminate the facility. The second construction phase of the test track, which will increase the area by a further approx. 36,000 square meters, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2022.

From 1 June 2021, "green kerosene" (sustainable aviation fuel - SAF) will also be used to refuel aircraft at Munich Airport. After thorough technical testing, the fuel depot at the airport is now being opened for climate-friendly fuels of the future.  

Munich Airport and bayern design present smart solutions to make life easier in the future - from refrigerators that think for themselves to intelligent street lighting. Munich Airport's Terminal 2 is hosting a new exhibition by bayern design, the center of competence for design in the State of Bavaria.

Munich Airport and Lufthansa are working together to make air travel sustainable and have made a public commitment to the goal of effectively limiting environmental and climate effects. In the new "Green Gate" exhibition in the airport's satellite terminal, passengers can now learn about the many-faceted programs and initiatives of the two companies to promote sustainable mobility.