October 12: Anniversary celebration for FMG, the Munich Airport operating company
60 years ago today, the state of Bavaria and its capital, the city of Munich, established the airport operating company Flughafen München-Riem Gesellschaft mbH (FMG). At that time, FMG had 134 employees. Today about 30,000 employees work for 550 companies on the airport campus, including 7,400 with the FMG Group. In the first year, the airport handled 28,970 passengers at the old Riem location, as compared with more than 32.7 million in 2008 – a more than thousand-fold increase over that period.