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An exclusive ribbon-cutting at Munich Airport today: Together with Eurotrade, the retail subsidiary of Munich Airport, the French luxury leather goods company "Longchamp" opened its new 72-square-meter boutique in Terminal 2 at Gates H. The ribbon was cut by Markus Wahl, CEO Longchamp Germany, Rainer Beeck, Senior Vice President Commercial Activities at Munich Airport (right), and Sven Zahn, Managing Director of Eurotrade Handels-GmbH (left). The exclusive store is now open.

Kuwait Airways re-instates two weekly services between Munich and Kuwait City. The route is operated on Thursdays and Saturdays with a brand new Airbus A320neo. “We are very pleased that Kuwait Airways has decided to re-launch flights to Munich and we expect a good response to the route this summer” states Oliver Dersch, Vice President Traffic Development Munich Airport.

The volume of traffic at Munich Airport is beginning to soar once again. For the first time in more than a year, Munich Airport counted over 50,000 passengers on two days in July. Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) is anticipating that the number of air travelers for the entire month of July will surpass the one-million mark. 

Normality is gradually returning to Munich Airport: On average, there are currently 400 take-offs and landings with over 30,000 passengers every day. Those passengers can now take advantage of an extensive range of catering, shops and services. In total, more than 20 restaurants and bars, around 45 shops and six car rental offices have reopened across the two terminals, the Munich Airport Center (MAC) and the Visitors Park. 

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.

Against the background of the global coronavirus pandemic and the resulting massive decline in international air travel, fiscal 2020 presented Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) with a number of major challenges. This, FMG’s 11th integrated report, reports on all the most important developments in 2020 under the title “Staying on Track.”