A new gate for up to twelve aircraft is to be built even before the airport’s long-planned third runway, Albert Füracker, Bavarian finance minister and chairman of Munich Airport’s supervisory board, said on Thursday.
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In addition, passenger screening, restaurants and lounges in Terminal 1, which opened in 1992, will be renovated.Â
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Initial construction work on the 95,000-square-metre expansion is scheduled to begin before the end of the year.Â
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The new gate will be opened “by 2023 at the earliest,” a press release issued by the airport operator FMG stated on Thursday.Â
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In order to accommodate for the expected increase in passenger numbers, the new gate will be for international flights outside the Schengen area of Europe.
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