Our business units: a sustainable contribution to success

Aviation business unit

Munich Airport ensures connectivity for the people and businesses based here. It can be assumed that demand for air travel will continue to develop positively due to the economic strength and attractiveness of Bavaria and southern Germany as an incoming destination. Munich Airport is crucial as a gateway for this region.

With 41.6 million passengers in 2024, Munich Airport reached approximately 87 percent of the record volume from the pre-crisis year 2019. Despite Germany’s slower recovery compared to other European air traffic markets, we remain on course to solidify our position as one of the leading hub airports in an increasingly consolidated European aviation market. Long-haul and connecting traffic will therefore be the essential cornerstones of the aviation strategy in the medium to long term, too. With Gulf Air, Vietnam Airlines, and Cathay Pacific, we secured three additional long-haul carriers for our location in 2024. In addition, more destinations in point-to-point traffic will expand the variety of offerings from Munich. The quality of infrastructure and processes will play a key role in this.

The Lufthansa Group’s decision to further expand its long-haul offering at the site is a clear commitment to the Bavarian hub airport within Lufthansa’s multi-hub system. In summer 2025, all eight remaining Airbus A380 aircraft in the fleet will be operated out of the Munich hub airport. Altogether, the Lufthansa Group will then operate 35 long-haul aircraft and a record 180 long-haul flights per week – primarily to North America and Asia – marking the highest long-haul capacity ever offered at Munich Airport.

Air cargo has also benefited from the attractive long-haul offering. Cargo volume increased by 11 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching a total of around 308,000 metric tons. Development of the cargo and logistics business thus reflects the key importance of functioning global supply chains.

Commercial Activities business unit

The Commercial Activities business unit works to ensure and increase FMG’s value contribution. Optimizing the efficiency of space and the product portfolio are key to further increasing customers’ willingness to make purchases. Changing retail structures and consumer habits also call for new marketing and acquisition concepts. This includes, among other things, increased use of digital tools and the expansion of partnerships for direct engagement with air passengers.

Since July 2024, for example, a new trilateral partnership has been in place with the frequent flyer and rewards program Miles & More and Deutsche Lufthansa. This collaboration between an airport, a loyalty program, and an airline is unique throughout the world. Through elaborate presentations in the terminals, high-quality showcases of strong brands, and exceptional events in the Munich Airport Center forum, we offer our guests memorable experiences during their stay.

The recovery of passenger figures and rising demand in 2024 revitalized commercial activity in retail and food services in the terminals. In addition, several concert highlights in Munich during the summer months contributed to increased passenger volumes and higher consumer spending. In the advertising segment, the focus in the reporting year remained on new customer acquisition and the strengthening of existing brand partnerships. In this context, the UEFA European Championship and numerous trade fairs had a positive effect.

The parking and mobility business unit is growing again and is approaching its pre-crisis 2019 level. This growth is primarily concentrated in individual travel by vacationers. In this specific segment, we significantly expanded our offering in 2024 with the opening of the new economy parking garage P43. In addition, various renovation and new construction projects are currently underway to secure parking capacity for the future. Already today, optimal utilization and pricing are being achieved – in addition to standard yield management – through a focus on the online marketing of car parking spaces.

Real Estate business unit

The Real Estate business unit at Munich Airport is responsible for the demand-oriented provision and development of buildings, spaces, and infrastructure that are essential for the airport’s and on-site companies’ value creation processes. It also strategically positions the real estate business in the market to unlock further business opportunities and to establish the airport as an attractive real estate location.

Using real estate as a means of securing the core business of aviation

The real estate and infrastructure at Munich Airport are undergoing comprehensive modernization, with special focus on sustainability and a high quality of stay. This is exemplified by the new pier at Terminal 1. In the coming years, further extensive renovation work is planned, affecting Terminal 1, the central building, the tower, and the parking garages.

Generating additional contributions to profits by developing real estate

We are open to third-party development projects located outside our airport premises, provided they create synergies for the airport and the surrounding region. One such example is the concert and event arena being planned by an investor from Freising at the western edge of the airport campus – which the investor describes as Germany’s most sustainable venue of its kind. This multifunctional hall, which will be able to host concerts for up to 20,000 visitors, promises not only a variety of uses, but also a significant boost to the regional economy and cultural life.

Taking account of regional interests

We place great value on intensive dialogue with the airport region, take local needs into account in site development and construction projects, and take responsibility for infrastructure initiatives that extend beyond the airport premises. In addition, Flughafen München GmbH offers the best possible support to companies that prefer proximity to the airport and the international environment it provides when choosing their location.

International business: Global success

The Group subsidiary Munich Airport International GmbH (MAI) promotes value-generating growth beyond the Munich site and thereby opens up new business units for FMG. It provides management, consulting, and training services for the international aviation industry, and is a widely respected partner – not least due to the recognized quality of Munich Airport.