21. February 2025
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Munich Airport (MUC) Visitors Tour

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Spending some time in and around Munich Airport (MUC), I also took the opportunity to have their Airport-Live-Tour, the basic bus tour through the airport’s ground. I decided to use the Pictured Story format for this posting, i.e. you join me with major size pictures, but therefor, there is no final rating for the tour itself. Hope you enjoy my views of Germany’s second largest airport.

 

Munich Airport (MUC) Visitors Tour – Location & Admission

Munich Airport (MUC) is offering regular visitor tours. The easiest way is to check out their website for the exact times. The departure of the tour is next to the visitor center (Besucherzentrum), which is located West of the terminal buildings. The easiest way to reach is is by taking one station with the S-Bahn commuter rail lines S1 and S8 to Flughafen München Besucherpark (“Munich Airport Visitor Park”). From there, you need to take a some ten minute walk to the visitor center.

The Airport-Live-Tour takes some 50 minutes, tours were available in German and English (currently, you cannot book them). I recommend to buy tickets online beforehand, but you can also buy them in the visitor center, if seats are remaining. The adult admission is 12 EUR and is taken with an ordinary coach. Thus, being there early for a window seat may be favorable. On top of that, all visitors need to pass an airport-style security check before entering the secured part of the airport grounds. You cannot step off the bus, which you unfortunately also see by some reflections in the pictures below.

 

Views of Munich Airport (MUC) Visitors Tour

After passing the security gates, the first headed towards Terminal 1, which is served by the majority of non-Star Alliance Airlines. The apron positions there also featured some more “exotic” airlines, which you typically only run into on major European hubs. After that, we headed to Terminal 2, where Lufthansa and their affiliates are dominating. From smaller Lufthansa Group regional planes to the large intercontinental ones – you had quite a nice range of different aircraft types and airlines on that tour. The key attraction, however, was the female guide, who lead the tour with a nice sense of humor and typical Bavarian irony.

From there, the bus went rather to the less “public” and well-known areas of the airport. For example, we passed the parking position for general aviation planes or the Lufthansa maintenance facilities. Fun fact of those hangars is that the Airbus A380 in fact does not fully fit in – thus, you saw a couple of tails looking out of the building, when we drove along. Afterwards, we also had a quick look at other key facilities like the airport’s fire brigade and also passed the cargo part of Munich Airport (MUC) – there are partially designated scattered tours just for these kinds of focus topics. With 50 minutes, the tour is comparably compact, but it does give a nice overview in a nice and relaxed atmosphere.

 

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