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Gateways to the World: Bavaria’s Airports
Every Minute En Route: Local Public Transportation
The Bavarian cities go for a public traffic concept to ensure
fast intercity services. At the same time, the cities want to
make sure that the local residents enjoy noise protection
and a proper quality of life. Munich and Nuremberg maintain
a dense network of suburban and subway services
allowing everyone to quickly access most of the city in an
uncongested manner and covering a good portion of the
urban public transportation. Among an excellent reliability,
the suburban and subway services also offer a maximum
possible individual security during journeys through
the city. In Nuremberg, Germany’s most cutting-edge subway
network was developed, providing for both excellent
traveling comfort and a technological pilot project, which
received quite a bit of international attention: The regular
route is operated by the world’s first fully automatic metro.
In other Bavarian cities, busses and trams bear the brunt
of intra-urban traffic. When Bavaria first presented the
“Bayern-Takt”, the free state was one of the first German
states to introduce an integrated timetable system. All
traffic concepts of the Bavarian cities are hence clocked
into a smooth connection with regional railroad transportation
allowing travelers to reach long-distance connections
with public transportation on a short term.
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International airports: Quickly accessible from any location in Bavaria
Bavaria’s international airports in Munich and
Nuremberg are traffic hubs of intercontinental air
transportation and safeguard optimal conditions in
terms of international competition for local companies. On
a regular basis, about 100 airlines take off from Munich
heading for approximately 240 destinations in almost 70
countries.
At Munich Airport alone, roughly 38 million passengers
are cleared every year while 400,000 takeoffs and landings
take place.
Takeoffs and landings take place every minute – one
reason why the airport gradually grows above average
compared to the overall development in the industry. Me-
anwhile, Munich Airport is considered one of the largest
air traffic junctions in Europe and has therefore been repeatedly
awarded the best European airport.
26 regional and special airports also accommodating the
use of private aircraft can be approached from Munich and
Nuremberg, to some extent even directly from another national
and/or international airport, but also with private
aircrafts and connecting regional locations with the international
air traffic.
Locations in North Bavaria are directly connected with
Germany’s largest international airport in Frankfurt on the
Main, one of the most important traffic hubs in the world.
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