The Bavarian Finance Minister and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Flughafen München GmbH, Albert Füracker, received the Lower Saxony Finance Minister Reinhold Hilbers at Munich Airport today. 

Together with airport boss Jost Lammers and Stefan Kreuzpaintner, CCO Lufthansa Airlines and head of the Lufthansa hub in Munich, Minister of State Füracker informed the guest from Hanover about the hub operations in Munich and the measures that FMG and Lufthansa are taking to ensure more climate protection in air traffic.

In the background, in addition to Lufthansa's ultra-modern long-haul aircraft, an Airbus A350, examples of electromobility in ground handling can also be seen. In addition to a tow vehicle for luggage trolleys and a cargo lifter, this also includes a passenger bus that was formerly powered by diesel and has been converted to a generator-electric drive with liquid biomethane. The proportion of electrically operated vehicles and handling equipment in the FMG fleet has meanwhile increased to around 40 percent.

“The corona pandemic presented the entire aviation industry with major challenges through no fault of its own. Munich Airport is facing up to these tasks and wants to emerge stronger from the crisis. In 2016 we decided that Munich Airport would be operated CO2030-neutrally by 2 at the latest. The management is working at full speed with numerous measures to ensure that the airport will achieve this ambitious climate target, ”said Albert Füracker, Chairman of the FMG Supervisory Board.