Winter timetable Munich Airport

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New winter timetable features flights to more than 200 destinations

2009, airlines have booked slots for approximately 164,000 take-offs and landings. During the winter season 84 airlines will be operating flights from Munich Airport to 203 destinations in 65 countries.

Vacationers and business travellers will be able to fly to a total of 183 foreign destinations from Munich quickly and conveniently without changing planes. They include 45 long-haul destinations in Africa, North and South America and Asia. With the addition of three weekly flights to its Munich-Johannesburg service, South African Airways will now depart daily to the South African metropolis. Also being enhanced is Lufthansa’s service to Mumbai, which is gaining two weekly flights, bringing the total to five. Vacationers headed for the Thai holiday paradise of Phuket will be pleased to see that LTU will be operating a fourth weekly service this winter. Celebrating its comeback at Munich Airport is the airline TACV Cabo Verde, which will depart every Thursday for Sal on the Cape Verde Islands. Boa Vista, another destination on these islands off the west coast of Africa, will be served by TUIfly every Tuesday. The overall number of flights scheduled on the coming winter timetable is down nearly 5 percent on the same period a year earlier.

The Irish airline Aer Lingus is adding Belfast to its range of flights from Munich, and will fly between the capital of Northern Ireland and Bavaria’s international aviation hub three times a week. The Austrian airline Niki is boosting its services to Vienna by one-third to 17 connections per week. Transaero is launching a second weekly service to St. Petersburg, in Russia, to mark the start of the winter timetable. In the German domestic segment, Cirrus Airlines is adding Mannheim to its list of destinations served.

Compared with last winter’s timetable, Lufthansa now offers substantially more capacity on its Munich routes, including the continuation this winter of the long-haul services launched in the summer to Mumbai, Shenyang and Singapore. Air Berlin is cutting its list of scheduled European destinations by three with the elimination of its flights to Athens, London and Paris.

Passengers at Munich Airport will benefit immediately from a new information service: they can now use their cellphones to view data on current arrivals and departures and the seasonal timetable at www.muc.aero/flug. All they need is a web-enabled phone (WAP 2.0 standard).

Munich Airport Press Release 20/10/2008