Annual Report 2008 (pdf) - Flughafen München

The year in review
Highlights
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Highlights
The year in review
January 22, 2008
Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) institutes
a new innovation and environmental award to
encourage the development of new technologies
and advance environmental protection at
Munich Airport. Known as the MUC Award,
and with a cash prize of €10,000, it is to be
bestowed for the first time in 2008. FMG
hopes the award will foster the creative potential
of students and researchers and encourage
research into ways to make airport operations
more environment-friendly and less resourceintensive.
The MUC Award is to recognize
ideas and projects that address environmental
issues of importance for the aviation industry.
March 2008
In the international Air Cargo Excellence Survey,
Munich Airport ranks second, behind Japan’s
Nagoya International. The initiator of this global
survey among airlines and freight forwarders,
conducted for the fourth time, is the renowned
magazine Air Cargo World. The Air Cargo Excellence
Survey scores airports according to four
measures: Performance, Value, Facilities, and
Regulatory Operations; they are also rated on
their overall impression. Munich ranked among
the top three airports worldwide in each of these
categories and made first place in the Facilities
category.
March 30, 2008
Munich Airport adds a number of attractive
new Asian destinations to its worldwide
network of routes with the introduction of
the summer timetable. Deutsche Lufthansa
begins offering three weekly nonstops to
Mumbai in India, plus five frequencies a
week to Singapore. The range of services to
Seoul, too, expands, with Lufthansa increasing
its number of flights to the South Korean
capital from three to five and, later in the
season, six a week. These flights also serve
Busan, the country’s second-largest city,
and Shenyang in China. Korean Air, too,
previously a freight-only carrier in Munich,
begins operating a passenger service to
Seoul. Airlines coordinated almost 246,000
takeoffs and landings for the summer timetable
season through to October 25.