Munich Airport
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Munich Airport is home to Airbräu, which opened in 1999 as the world's first (and still only) airport brewery, brewing its beer according to Germany's 1516 purity law.
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The airport's full name honours Franz Josef Strauss, who was Bavaria's minister-president from 1978 until his death in 1988, having earlier served West Germany as defence minister and minister of the treasury. A private pilot and aerospace enthusiast, he helped found Airbus in the 1970s and chaired its supervisory board until his death.
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Munich's new airport opened on 17 May 1992 already named for Strauss, who had championed the project and promoted Bavaria as an aviation hub but did not live to see it finished, having died in 1988. The old Munich-Riem Airport had closed the previous day.
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The old Munich-Riem Airport moved to its current Franz Josef Strauss site in a single overnight operation on 16-17 May 1992, with roughly 5,000 workers and 700 trucks shifting the entire airport in about 16 hours.
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Munich's Terminal 2 Satellite, opened in 2016 as a €650 million joint project between the airport and Lufthansa, is 609 metres long and adds 52 gates. It connects to Terminal 2 by a fully automated underground people-mover system.
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Munich's two parallel runways are each 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) long, deliberately built longer than needed so aircraft rarely require thrust reversal on landing — a noise-reduction measure, even though it adds to taxi times.
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The airport's Visitors Park includes a viewing hill overlooking the western apron plus a restaurant and playground, and displays three historic aircraft: a Lockheed Super Constellation, a Douglas DC-3 and a Junkers Ju 52.
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Passenger traffic at Munich Airport more than doubled between 1995 and 2006, growing from under 15 million to over 30 million a year, despite the dip in air travel that followed the September 11 attacks.
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A photovoltaic system installed on Terminal 2's roof in 2003 generates about 445,000 kWh of electricity annually — roughly the same as the yearly usage of 150 households.
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Arrivals and departures at Munich Airport are banned between 22:00 and 06:00, with narrow exceptions for mail flights, emergencies and government-authorised services, a restriction won after decades of local protest over aircraft noise.
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