The 630 winter service employees at Munich Airport are available around the clock to ensure safe flight operations in snow and ice. In January 2022 alone, the busiest month of the current winter season, the winter service had to be deployed on 21 days.

Since October 15 - the start of the current season - it has been a total of 43 days, as the airport announced in a broadcast. The two runways were cleared a total of 46 times and de-iced 26 times - in the first month of the new year there were 21 runway clearings and 12 de-icings. In total, the employees of Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) and external workers worked 46.000 hours with 181 vehicles on the runways, taxiways, aprons and in the public areas of the airport. So far, FMG's winter service has used 180 tons of quartz sand, 80 tons of de-icing granulate and 1.750 tons of liquid de-icing agent. EFM, the subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and FMG responsible for aircraft de-icing, has had to de-ice around 4.800 aircraft since the start of the season, around 2.000 in January alone.