"Perspectives 2011" - Sustainability and Annual Report (pdf)

Workforce and work environmentEnvironmental and climate protectionFinancial reviewSustainable developmentquired to enable a passenger to make a connectionfrom an inbound flight to an outbound flight – is just30 minutes in Terminal 2. In Terminal 1, the minimumconnecting time is 35 minutes; if a transfer involvesswitching between terminals, it is 45 minutes. This isa crucial factor when organizing transfer connectionsby air.Those who benefit most from Munich’s gradual transitionfrom a point-to-point airport to a ) hub airportare the local population and businesses in Bavaria andneighboring states. Besides a tightly meshed networkof European routes serving more destinations in Europethan any other airport, we offer them access toan extensive and attractive range of long-haul services.Today, Germany’s two main hub airports, Munich andFrankfurt, now handle 90 percent of the country’s in -coming and outgoing intercontinental traffic. Both economicallyand environmentally, a hub-centric strategyis the most efficient way to organize intercontinentaltraffic, because it concentrates passengers in just afew flights and enables carriers to make optimum useof aircraft capacity.In 2011, the number of seats offered per flight atMunich Airport increased to 134, up four on a yearearlier, reflecting the continuing trend toward largeraircraft. On average, 99 passengers were carried oneach flight – three more than in 2010.Higher service frequencies on intercontinentalroutesThe number of weekly takeoffs from Munich to intercontinentaldestinations alone more than doubledbetween 2001 and 2011, from 138 to 278. Passengernumbers on intercontinental routes increased byclose to 7 percent compared to 2010, with volumeson services to and from Asia growing faster than others.For the first time in years, it was not traffic to theGulf region that drove the rise in Asia traffic: In 2011growth rates were higher on services to destinations) GlossaryLong-haul destinations in 2011CalgaryVancouverPortlandSalt Lake City TorontoSan FranciscoLos AngelesDenver ChicagoAtlantaHoustonFort MyersCancúnMontrealBostonNew YorkPhiladelphiaWashingtonCharlotteMiamiVaraderoPuerto PlataLa RomanaPunta CanaBridgetownIlha do SalBoa VistaMunichYekaterinburgTyumenTashkentErbilSulaymaniyahAmmanDohaRiyadh Dubai DelhiAbu Dhabi Ras al-KaimahJeddah Muscat MumbaiMaleIrkutskDalianBeijingSeoulBusanTokyoShanghaiHong KongBangkokPhuketSingaporeMombasaJakartaSão PauloWindhoekJohannesburgCape TownMauritius47