Press: Boom in US flights continues

Thanks to significant passenger growth of 17 percent, Munich Airport (FMG) recorded a positive annual result (EAT) of EUR 25 million for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. Revenue increased to approximately EUR 1.4 billion. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) moved back into the positive range for the first time since 2019 at EUR 115 million. 

Munich Airport continued its recovery in first quarter of 2023, with around seven million passengers counted between January and March. This was 70% more than in the same period of the previous year. Due to the restrictions on international travel as a result of the pandemic, only a little over four million passengers had used Munich Airport for a flight in the first quarter of 2021. 

Delta Airlines, one of the world's largest airlines and one of Munich Airport's first customers, is now offering another destination from Munich to the USA. John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) in New York is served on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The high passenger demand for flights to the USA has prompted.

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, will launch four weekly flights from Bahrain to Munich from July 01, 2024. With an Airbus A321neo, Gulf Air will fly from Bahrain International Airport to Munich Airport on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Gulf Air arrives in Munich at 06:35 and departs for Bahrain at 12:20. Flights on this route are now available for booking.

The Scandinavian airline Norwegian is expanding its range of flights from Munich with immediate effect. In addition to its three Scandinavian destinations of Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, it will begin serving Alicante and Malaga again from the start of April, having suspended flights to these destinations during COVID.

Discover Airlines, a recent addition to the Lufthansa Group, is launching an extensive range of flights from Munich Airport to numerous vacation destinations in time for the summer 2024 flight schedule. Discover Airlines, which bills itself as a “leisure airline”, is stationing five Airbus A320s at Munich Airport for this purpose. 

On Sunday, March 31, 2024, Munich Airport launches its summer flight schedule, which this year runs until Saturday, October 26. The airlines have announced more than 3,300 departures per week for this seven-month period, approximately twelve percent more than in summer 2023.

Munich Airport can look back on a successful year in air freight in 2023. According to data from the German Airports Association (ADV), Munich Airport was the only major German airport to record growth in freight transportation in 2023. 

Direct flights can be booked effective immediately: Vietnam Airlines will take off from Munich Airport for the first time at the start of the 2024/25 winter flight schedule at the end of October. In so doing, the airline is expanding its Asian flight program from Munich and will fly passengers twice a week to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The airline will use either an Airbus A350-900 or a Boeing B787-9 for these new flights. 

With the introduction of the JEEVES service robot, passengers at Munich Airport can shop at a self-driving robot. Originally designed for use in the hotel and healthcare sector, a robot of this type is now being used for the first time in the world as a "snackbot" at an airport. 

A total of nine airlines are currently planning 107 weekly flights to 14 destinations in ten countries in East and South Asia. Before the pandemic, in the 2019 summer schedule, there were 101 flights operated by five airlines to ten destinations in seven countries.

After a break of almost four years due to the pandemic, Air China has resumed flights between Munich Airport and the Chinese business metropolis of Shanghai as of today. Modern and efficient Airbus A350-900 long-haul aircraft are being operated three times a week. 

The ongoing positive development at Munich Airport is clearly reflected in the traffic figures for 2023. Passenger numbers rose by five million year-on-year to a total of 37 million. With its current passenger volume, Munich Airport has reached around 80% of the record level from the pre-crisis year 2019. The number of aircraft movements rose by six percent compared to 2022 to more than 300,000 take-offs and landings. The seat load factor reached a record level of 81.3 percent, thereby exceeding 80 percent for the first time since the airport opened. 

Commencing today, Lufthansa Group connects the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru (Bangalore) with Munich, capital of Bavaria. Alongside Delhi and Mumbai, Bengaluru is the third Indian city with a direct connection for travelers via Germany’s only 5 Star hub Munich.   

Munich Airport welcomes a new flight connection: From now on, Uzbekistan Airways will be offering two weekly nonstop flights from Munich to the Uzbek capital Tashkent. Every Friday and Sunday, flights from Tashkent arrive in Munich at 9:20 a.m., and return to Uzbekistan at 10:45 a.m. The flights are operated by a modern Airbus A320neo.

The new winter flight schedule at Munich Airport will begin at the same time as the clock change and last from Sunday, October 29, 2023 to Saturday, March 30, 2024. During this period, passengers will be able to choose between 43 long-haul and 116 medium-haul destinations, as well as 13 cities in Germany. 

On the occasion of inter airport Europe 2023 in Munich, Munich Airport, together with its Terminal 2 subsidiary and Dabico Airport Solutions Germany GmbH, today signed a letter of intent (LOI) to develop an innovative concept for fully automated passenger boarding bridges.