Although the catering trade in Germany is largely closed, Mönchengladbach Airport is looking ahead and is looking for a new innkeeper to run a 745 square meter restaurant.

The subsidiary of Düsseldorf Airport sees the new restaurant as a crowd puller and also highlights a 280 square meter outdoor terrace in a broadcast. This should offer a view of the apron. "This special ambience is predestined for a qualitative gastronomic offer", says Ulrich Schückhaus, managing director of the airport company. "We are thereby increasing the attractiveness of the airport for visitors as well as for companies".

Another argument presented by Mönchengladbach Airport in a broadcast: The airport should be located along a "popular bicycle route that will ensure sufficient public traffic and thus guests in the new catering trade". Innkeepers who want to cook at this airport, which has no scheduled services but specializes in general aviation and flight students, have to be quick. Applications will only be accepted until March 24, 2021.

Mönchengladbach Airport is already an important economic factor in the region with around 650 jobs - and the trend is rising. Maintenance heavyweights such as RAS and elite Jet are expanding, a strong flight school operation and unique event locations such as the Hugo Junkers hangar enliven the MGL sustainably. Flight movements in 2020 were 48.856, almost 15 percent above the previous year. "Against the background of the corona pandemic, this is a particularly positive signal that goes against the negative industry trend," says Franz-Josef Kames, Managing Director of the airport company.

Further investments will be made in the coming years under the label “Innovationsflughafen MGL”. Additional aircraft and maintenance hangars, administration and production areas for flight-related businesses and research facilities for innovations in air traffic are planned. In addition, another hangar is being built for the exhibition of historical aircraft that are still airworthy.