Memmingen Airport is 110 km from Munich and 3.8 km from Memmingen. If you booked it as a Munich airport, the transfer is the journey — and it goes door to door at a fixed price.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
About the airport
Memmingen is marketed against Munich and located in the Allgäu, and the gap between those two facts is 110 km. That single number is the most useful thing anyone can tell you about arriving here, and it is worth knowing before you book the flight rather than after you collect your bag.
The airport is a converted military field with one terminal, 11 check-in desks and 12 gates split between Schengen and non-Schengen, no jet bridges, and boarding on foot or by bus. Memmingen town itself is only 3.8 km away — the airport is genuinely local to somewhere, just not to the city on the marketing.
Ryanair and Wizz Air dominate it, with several based aircraft, which produces the usual low-cost arrival pattern: cheap fares, awkward hours and passengers a long way from where they assumed they would be. Evening arrivals here regularly land after the regional buses have finished for the day.
What redeems the geography is that the Allgäu is worth arriving in. The Alps, Füssen and Neuschwanstein, Oberstdorf, Lake Constance and the Austrian border are all closer to this terminal than Munich is. For a skier, a walker or someone going to see the castles, this is not a distant Munich airport — it is the nearest airport to the actual destination.
Getting to and from the airport
A coach runs to Munich and is priced per passenger, which makes it the cheapest option for one person with a flexible schedule going to Munich city centre — take it if that describes you, and we would rather you did than overpaid us.
Past that, the arithmetic turns. A coach fare times four is a private car, and at family size the comparison is usually decided before you factor in the two hours and the changes at the far end. Run your own numbers rather than assuming.
The coach also only goes to Munich, and the reason most people fly here is not Munich. For Füssen and Neuschwanstein, Oberstdorf, the Allgäu villages, Lake Constance or a ski resort over the Austrian border, there is no scheduled service to compare against — and the drive is a fraction of the run to Munich. That inversion is the whole argument for this airport.
Where your driver meets you
There is one terminal and one arrivals door, and your driver is behind it with a name sign. Boarding here is on foot or by bus rather than through a jet bridge, and the single baggage belt clears a flight quickly, so arrivals reach the hall fast. Flights are tracked from the number you give at booking, and 60 minutes of free waiting after touchdown is included — which matters at an airport where a missed pickup on a late evening arrival leaves you in the Allgäu with no bus and no rank.
Arrivals and pickup
One terminal, 11 check-in desks and 12 gates split into Schengen and non-Schengen zones, with a single arrivals area. There are no jet bridges at all here — every flight boards and disembarks on foot or by bus, so allow a few extra minutes between the aircraft door and the exit, particularly on a full Ryanair or Wizz Air arrival.
The taxi rank is directly outside the arrivals hall with no shuttle involved, which is the good news. The less good news is how few cars are usually on it: this is a small airport with a concentrated schedule, and a rank that copes at midday does not cope when two aircraft land together at 22:40.
Memmingen is 110 km from Munich, the city it is marketed against, and 3.8 km from the town it is actually in. Anybody who booked a flight to “Munich West” and expects a short hop into Munich has a two-hour problem, and the bus that covers it runs to the flight schedule rather than to yours. The real catchment here is the Allgäu, Lake Constance and the Alps — Oberstdorf, Füssen, Neuschwanstein, the Austrian and Swiss borders — and for those a car is the only sensible way out of the airport.
Fleet
Every class includes the same service — flight tracking, meet and greet, waiting time and a fixed price. What changes is the space.
Top of the range
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz S-Class or similar
A flagship saloon — the long-wheelbase, rear-seat-first kind. Booked for board-level guests, client collection and the journeys where the car is part of the impression.
The default for work travel
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz E-Class or similar
An executive saloon with room to work, quiet enough to take a call, and a boot built for checked luggage rather than weekend bags. The class most corporate accounts book by default.
The sensible one
3 passengers / 2 bags
Toyota Corolla Hybrid or similar
A clean, current saloon with a professional driver. Everything that matters — flight tracking, meet and greet, a fixed price — is included; you are simply not paying for a badge.
Groups and real luggage
7 passengers / 7 bags
Mercedes-Benz V-Class or similar
Seven seats, a boot that takes seven cases, and a sliding door that makes loading at the kerb straightforward. The class families and small teams actually need.
Up to sixteen
16 passengers / 16 bags
For conference groups, wedding parties and trade-fair teams moving together. Quoted as one fixed price for the whole group rather than per seat.
Routes
| Destination | Distance | Journey time | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulm | 61 km | 43 min | €123 |
| Ulm Hauptbahnhof | 62 km | 44 min | €124 |
| Immenstadt | 70 km | 47 min | €137 |
| Ravensburger Spieleland | 76 km | 1h 01 | €147 |
| Legoland Deutschland | 81 km | 55 min | €155 |
| Neuschwanstein Castle | 89 km | 1h 01 | €167 |
| Augsburg | 93 km | 1h 06 | €174 |
| Messe Friedrichshafen | 93 km | 1h 07 | €174 |
| Augsburg Hauptbahnhof | 94 km | 1h 04 | €175 |
| Munich | 118 km | 1h 26 | €214 |
| Reutlingen | 136 km | 1h 49 | €243 |
| Stuttgart | 151 km | 1h 45 | €267 |
| Pforzheim | 187 km | 2h 09 | €324 |
| Ingolstadt | 191 km | 2h 03 | €331 |
| Zürich | 208 km | 2h 25 | €358 |
| Heilbronn | 209 km | 2h 24 | €359 |
| Karlsruhe | 216 km | 2h 24 | €371 |
| Regensburg | 233 km | 2h 26 | €398 |
Prices shown are the starting fare for this route and include tolls and airport access charges. Your exact price is confirmed before you book.
Straight answer
One person, travelling light, going to Munich city centre, with time to spare: take the coach. It is priced per passenger and it will be cheaper than a car, and that is the honest answer for that specific trip. Everything else points the other way. At two the gap narrows, at four the car is usually cheaper as well as faster, and for the Allgäu, the Alps, Neuschwanstein, Oberstdorf, Lake Constance or anywhere over the Austrian border there is simply nothing scheduled to compare against — which is also, conveniently, where most people who land here are actually going.
At the other end
Memmingen markets itself as Munich West and it is not Munich — the city is about 110 km away, comfortably over an hour by road. What the airport is actually in the middle of is the Allgäu, which is a better reason to be here: alpine foothills, lakes, and the most photographed castle in the world an hour to the south.
A walled free imperial city that most people fly past without noticing, with its towers and much of its circuit intact and a market square that has not been prettified. Fifteen minutes from the terminal.
About an hour south near Füssen. Ludwig II built it as a private fantasy of a medieval castle, lived in it for a matter of months, and it opened to the public within weeks of his death — the thing was a paying attraction almost immediately. Book a timed ticket or do not go.
Roughly seventy kilometres south-west, on an island in the lake, with a harbour mouth guarded by a stone lion and a lighthouse. Austria and Switzerland are both visible from the promenade.
Oberstdorf and the high valleys are an hour and a half down the road — walking and cable cars in summer, skiing in winter, and the Breitachklamm gorge, which is worth the detour on its own.
Business travel
Most of what a company needs from a transfer is not a discount — it is knowing the number before the journey, and knowing somebody will be standing there holding the right name. Both are how this service already works.
Name a colleague, a client or a candidate as the passenger and put your own address on the confirmation. The driver holds their name at arrivals; the booking, the changes and the receipt stay with you.
The fare is fixed before you book, so it goes into an approval or onto an expense claim as a known number rather than an estimate. Traffic on the day changes the journey, never the amount.
Flight tracking moves the pickup with the aircraft, and the driver waits inside arrivals with a name board rather than texting from a car park. Someone you are trying to impress should not have to find anybody.
A group that outgrows a van is quoted as the combination of vehicles that actually seats it, priced per car and confirmed as one booking — not turned away at the vehicle list.
If your company moves people through this airport more than occasionally, it is worth a conversation rather than a form. Tell us the routes and the volume and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right operator for it.
What is included
Agreed in full before you book. Traffic, tolls and airport charges are already in it — the meter does not exist.
We watch the flight number you give us. Land early or three hours late and the pickup moves with you, at no extra cost.
Your driver waits inside arrivals holding a name sign, helps with the luggage and walks you to the car.
Free waiting time after touchdown — enough for passport control and baggage reclaim without anyone watching a clock.
From the exact address to the exact address. Not to the nearest station, and not to a rank at the end of the road.
Infant, child and booster seats specified at booking. They are not charged as an extra.
Cancel up to 24 hours before pickup at no charge. Plans change; that is not something to be fined for.
Licensed, insured, English- and German-speaking, and briefed on your journey before they set off.
FAQ
About 110 km from Munich city centre, despite how the airport is marketed. It is in the Allgäu in south-western Bavaria, and the road journey to Munich takes well over an hour.
It depends entirely on group size, and we would rather you did the sum. The coach is priced per passenger and a transfer per vehicle: one person travelling light is better off on the coach, at two the gap narrows, and by four the car is usually cheaper as well as faster.
Yes, and this is what the airport is genuinely well placed for. Füssen and Neuschwanstein, Oberstdorf, the Allgäu villages, Lake Constance and the Austrian ski resorts are all far closer to this terminal than Munich is, and none has a scheduled connection from it.
Yes, and the fare does not change with the hour. Low-cost schedules put a lot of arrivals here late in the evening, when onward public transport in the Allgäu has largely stopped for the day.
Yes. Say how many people and how much equipment at booking so the right vehicle comes — skis and boards are a volume problem, and a saloon boot fills up fast. Cross-border transfers into Austria are priced by route and quoted before you travel.
Lake Constance sits west of the Allgäu and is a routine transfer from this terminal — considerably closer than Munich, and a straightforward drive. Like most destinations here it has no direct scheduled connection from the airport, which is the recurring reason transfers get booked.
Guides
One of them was taken to court over it. The other three are still doing it.
Bavaria is the largest German state, and its three airports are 5, 28.5 and 110 km from the city they name.
At most of these airports the train wins. We would rather tell you which ones than sell you a car you do not need.
Uber exists here. It is a different product from the one on your phone at home, and the reason is a law rather than a business decision.
Most people who land at either of these are not going to a city. They are going into the mountains, and the mountains have no railway station.
A shuttle is a shared bus on a timetable. Eight German airports have a real one — and at three of them you should take it.
Airports
Ready when you are
Two addresses, a date, and how many of you there are. You will see the price for every vehicle class before you commit to anything.
