Low airfares and cheap tickets are available on domestic flights from Munich Airport (MUC), Germany to cities such as Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Cologne.
Munich Airport with around 31 million annual passengers is a distant second in Germany to Frankfurt International Airport with over 52 million. However, Frankfurt’s location in central Germany allows many travelers to use trains to their final destinations. Munich in the far south sees more passengers on German domestic flights (9.4 million passengers vs. Frankfurt’s 6.8 million in 2006). The routes to Hamburg, Berlin, and Düsseldorf are particularly busy.
German airline Lufthansa, the second largest in Europe after Air France-KLM, uses Munich Airport as a major secondary hub, especially for European destinations. As a result, Lufthansa offer connecting flights from Munich to a huge number of German airports. Few would use short-distance flights from for example Nürnberg or Stuttgart to travel to Munich but these domestic flights do make sense for passengers connecting at Munich Airport to long-distance flights.
Lufthansa’s domestic destinations from Munich Airport (MUC) include Berlin-Tegel (TXL), Bremen (BRE), Cologne/Bonn (Köln CGN), Düsseldorf (DUS), Frankfurt (FRA), Hamburg (HAM), Hanover (HAJ), and Münster/Osnabrück (FMO).
Lufthansa fly passengers to Munich Airport from several other German cities on flights operated by regional partners:
German low-cost airline Air Berlin is the second largest airline in Germany. It has many domestic flights from Munich Airport (MUC) including to Berlin-Tegel (TXL), Bremen, Cologne/Bonn (Köln CGN), Düsseldorf (DUS), Hamburg (HAM), Hanover (HAJ), Münster/Osnabrück (FMO), Saarbrücken (SCN), and (in summer only) Westerland/Sylt.
Low-cost airline Germanwings, controlled by Lufthansa, has a surprisingly low profile at Munich Airport. Currently, Germanwings only flies to German airports Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, and Hamburg from Munich Airport.
Low-cost airline Condor flies from Munich Airport to Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF), Bremen, Cologne-Bonn (CGN), Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, and Leipzig. However, these flights are mostly to connect to Condor’s longer distance holiday flights and too infrequent to offer real competition to the other airlines operating in these routes.
Munich Airport is the second largest in Germany with more domestic flights than any other airport in the country. Cheap flights on low-cost airlines as well as intercontinental flights contribute to the popularity of MUC. Alternative airports in Germany include Frankfurt International (FRA), Nürnberg / Nuremberg (NUE), and Salzburg (SZG) in Austria. Trains and buses provide easy access to Munich Airport.
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