Munich Airport
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Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München, IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. To the German Aeronautical Information Publication, it is known as Muenchen Airport.[4] It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport in Europe, handling 47.9 million passengers in 2019.[5] It is the world's 15th-busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic,[6] and was the 38th-busiest airport worldwide in 2018.[7][8][needs update] It serves as hub for Lufthansa including its subsidiaries Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti and Eurowings as well as a base for Condor and TUI fly Deutschland.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Flughafen München GmbH | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Munich Metropolitan Region | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Erding and Freising districts, Bavaria | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 17 May 1992; 31 years ago (1992-05-17) | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,487 ft / 453 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°21′14″N 011°47′10″E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | munich-airport.de | ||||||||||||||
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The airport is 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. It has two passenger terminals with an additional midfield terminal, two runways as well as extensive cargo and maintenance facilities and is fully equipped to handle wide-body aircraft including the Airbus A380.