Busy January: heavy demand for winter service at the airport
Created: 05.02.2022, 19:00
By: Markus Schwarzkugler
The winter service at the airport has used 181 vehicles so far.
© FMG
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.
This is reported by Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) in a press release.
Munich Airport – For classification: Since October 15th – the start of the current season – there have been a total of 43 days.
The two runways were cleared a total of 46 times and de-iced 26 times - in January there were 21 runway clearings and twelve de-icings.
In total, FMG employees 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 1750 tons of liquid de-icing agent.
EFM, the subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and FMG responsible for aircraft de-icing, has de-iced around 4,800 aircraft to date, around 2,000 in January alone.
