Terminal 2 satellite facility at Munich Airport cleared for take-off

On hand for the announcement, Dr Michael Kerkloh, the CEO of Munich Airport, said that the planned expansion of capacity will take the Bavarian hub to the next level: "We are gaining handling capacity for an additional 11 million passengers a year, which puts us in the order of magnitude of today's Frankfurt Airport. This will enable us to maintain the high standards of quality achieved by our airport today as a connecting hub even with the anticipated traffic volume in the future." Thomas Klühr, who heads the Munich and Direct Services Division as well as Munich hub operations for Lufthansa, sees the project as the key for putting the structures in place to handle the planned long-term growth at the Munich location: "The construction of this satellite facility secures Munich's position as a player among the international premium hubs," said Klühr. He added that this step represents "the continuation of the success story jointly written by Lufthansa and FMG, and unparallelled anywhere else in the world." The construction of Terminal 2 marked the first time that an airline and an airport operating company jointly assumed entrepreneurial responsibility for designing, building and operating a passenger handling facility of this kind."

By developing the satellite facility the two companies now want to continue the dy-namic growth in Munich: Terminal 2, which opened in 2003 and was specifically de-signed to handle the hub traffic of Lufthansa and its partners, will already reach its capacity limit of 25 million passengers this year.

As in the original Terminal 2 development, the investment costs of 650 million euros for the new building will be shared by FMG and Lufthansa on a 60:40 basis. The archi-tectural firm handling the general planning of the satellite will be the Munich firm Koch + Partner, which already performed this function in the Terminal 2 project.