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.
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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.
