Flughafen München GmbH as the operator of Munich Airport does not carry out any fever measurements. At Munich Airport, The Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) is responsible for infection control measures and has its own round-the-clock Infectiology Task Force.
In principle, the following applies: According to international health law, sick persons or persons suspected of being infected may not be transported. Contact persons to confirmed cases are also not allowed to fly until their quarantine period has expired. If, for example, a passenger is classified as suspected of infection or falls ill during the flight, the pilot is obliged under international health law to report this immediately to the destination airport. The destination airport reports the incident to the medical service. After landing, a member of the medical service goes on board and checks whether the patient requires medical assistance or whether there is a possible suspicion of infection. If the suspicion of an infectious disease cannot be ruled out, the medical staff will take a travel medical history in accordance with the guidelines of the Robert Koch Institute.
Then, in cooperation with the Infectiology Airport Task Force of the LGL, it is decided whether the patient should be taken to hospital or whether the medical service or task force should take a smear test on the patient. The other passengers are informed about the incident and the further procedure by officials of the Airport Infectiology Task Force. Passengers who were within a radius of two to three meters of the potentially sick person are informed in more detail about further action.
According to the German health authorities, the various regulations and measures generally lead to the identification of infected passengers. Only symptom-free travellers or passengers who have taken antipyretic medication before departure could not be identified as a result. For these passengers, however, measures such as the time-consuming measurement of the fever in all arriving passengers would be ineffective.