Munich Airport remains one of the largest workplaces in Bavaria: According to the recently published new employee survey by Flughafen München GmbH, companies and authorities at the airport employed a total of 2021 people at the end of 33.330.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting global travel restrictions, the number of employees at Munich Airport has only fallen moderately. On the key date of the survey, December 31.12.2021, 4.760, there were 13 employees or 2018 percent fewer employees at the airport than in 54. Compared to the last survey, the number of companies has also fallen by only ten percent or XNUMX companies.

Every three years, FMG carries out an up-to-date inventory of jobs for the entire airport campus, which summarizes the most important framework data on employment trends at the airport. The new study now available is based on data from a total of 464 companies and authorities. The Lufthansa Group remains the largest employer at the airport with 11.941 employees. On the reporting date, the FMG Group ranked second with 8.852 employees. Both companies together employ more than half of all employees on campus.

A breakdown of employees according to areas of work shows that most of the employees are still working in the area of ​​"flying personnel" (27,4 percent). There are clear differences in the development of the individual fields of activity in the comparison period 2018 - 2021: While the "flying personnel" and the area "protection, security and order" did not record any significant decreases, the number of jobs in the areas "other personnel", "Flight operations-related activities" and "Administration, sales of goods and planning" by up to 26 percent. 

More than 31.600 of the employees work in classic employment and training relationships, i.e. in activities subject to social security contributions or as civil servants or trainees. The proportion of these high-quality jobs on campus remained stable at 95 percent. Last but not least, the immediate airport region benefits from the quality of the jobs at the airport: Based on the total of almost 130.000 employees subject to social security contributions, which the statistics show for all employers in the districts of Erding and Freising, the airport employees make up around 23 percent. This means that almost every fourth job in these two districts is based at the airport.

Of the 33.330 employees, 10.344 work part-time. The part-time rate increased by 2018 percent compared to 3,7. With a share of 67 percent, most part-time employees work for the airlines. The number of trainees on the airport campus was 471 on the reporting date. These are spread over 40 training occupations.