Munich Airport sits 28.5 km north-east of the city, the widest gap between any German hub and the city it serves. A private transfer meets you inside your terminal, tracks your flight, and covers that distance in one leg at a price fixed before you travel.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
About the airport
The distance is the whole character of this airport. Munich Airport was built on open land near Freising in 1992, and everything about arriving here follows from being 28.5 km out: there is no walking away from it, no short taxi hop, and no cheap improvisation if a plan falls through at midnight. It is the widest gap between any German hub and the city it serves.
Road access is the A92 from the Neufahrn interchange, which feeds off the A9 — the Munich–Nuremberg trunk. The airport has its own exit, and in free-flowing conditions the run into the city is around forty minutes. In the morning and evening peaks it is materially longer, which is why any pickup here is timed from your actual landing rather than your scheduled one.
There are two passenger terminals. Terminal 1 handles carriers outside Star Alliance and is split into modules A to E, each with its own arrivals area. Terminal 2, opened in 2003, is Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners, with a midfield satellite added in 2016 and reached by an underground people mover. Terminal 1’s modules matter more than the terminal number: being met at the wrong end of a five-module building is a walk with your luggage.
Munich is a hub in the full sense — a long-haul connecting airport with a large transfer population, not just a gateway to a city. That shows in what people book from it. A substantial share of journeys from this terminal do not go to Munich at all: they go to the Alps, to the lakes, into Austria, or to a company address somewhere in the Bavarian industrial belt.
Getting to and from the airport
The S-Bahn runs from beneath the airport into the city and is the right answer for one person with a cabin bag and no deadline, though it takes the better part of three quarters of an hour to reach the centre and calls at a long list of stations first. The Lufthansa Express Bus is quicker to a few specific points and worth checking if one of them is where you are going.
Where a car earns its price is everything the S-Bahn is not built for. The first departure of the day and the last arrival fall outside it. Three or four people paying per head on rail exceed the cost of one vehicle. And luggage that has to be lifted on and off a train for forty-five minutes stops being a minor consideration somewhere around the second case.
The largest category is destinations that are not central Munich at all. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Bavarian lakes, the Allgäu, Salzburg and the Austrian Tyrol are all regular bookings from this airport and none is a simple rail journey from it. Neither is a company address in the northern suburbs that the S-Bahn passes without stopping — and given how much of Bavaria’s industry sits outside the city ring, that is a great many addresses.
Where your driver meets you
Your driver meets you inside the arrivals area of the terminal your flight lands at, holding a name sign. At Terminal 1 we also confirm the module: A to E each have their own arrivals area, so naming the terminal alone is not enough at this airport and a driver in the wrong module is a genuine walk. The terminal and module come from the flight number you give at booking rather than from your itinerary. Flights are tracked, and 60 minutes of free waiting after touchdown covers passport control and baggage reclaim — useful at a long-haul hub where non-Schengen arrivals can queue.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unterschleißheim | 23 km | 19 min | €62 |
| Dachau | 32 km | 30 min | €76 |
| München Hauptbahnhof | 39 km | 37 min | €87 |
| Landshut | 40 km | 34 min | €89 |
| Olching | 44 km | 36 min | €95 |
| Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm | 44 km | 34 min | €95 |
| Haar | 44 km | 35 min | €95 |
| Vaterstetten | 45 km | 33 min | €97 |
| Messe München | 45 km | 32 min | €97 |
| Germering | 47 km | 34 min | €100 |
| Unterhaching | 47 km | 41 min | €100 |
| Fürstenfeldbruck | 52 km | 42 min | €108 |
| Ottobrunn | 55 km | 41 min | €113 |
| Ingolstadt | 73 km | 53 min | €142 |
| Herrsching | 74 km | 53 min | €143 |
| Augsburg | 88 km | 1h | €166 |
| Augsburg Hauptbahnhof | 89 km | 1h 05 | €167 |
| Bad Tölz | 93 km | 1h 10 | €174 |
| Rottach-Egern | 95 km | 1h 13 | €177 |
| Regensburg | 105 km | 1h 11 | €193 |
| Rosenheim | 107 km | 1h 14 | €196 |
| Murnau am Staffelsee | 107 km | 1h 15 | €196 |
| Straubing | 108 km | 1h 16 | €198 |
| Kaufbeuren | 119 km | 1h 18 | €215 |
| Nuremberg | 160 km | 1h 48 | €281 |
| Ulm | 161 km | 1h 44 | €283 |
| Fürth | 165 km | 1h 53 | €289 |
| Erlangen | 180 km | 1h 55 | €313 |
| Salzburg | 183 km | 2h 03 | €318 |
| Salzburg Hauptbahnhof | 183 km | 2h | €318 |
| Reutlingen | 225 km | 2h 35 | €385 |
| Stuttgart | 240 km | 2h 31 | €409 |
Prices shown are the starting fare for this route and include tolls and airport access charges. Your exact price is confirmed before you book.
City to city
Journeys that never touch the airport, priced the same way: a measured road distance between the two city centres and a fare fixed before you travel. Every one of these pages says plainly when the train is the better buy.
Straight answer
For one person with hand luggage going to central Munich, take the S-Bahn. It runs from under the terminals, it is a fraction of the price, and while it is not fast it is completely predictable — which the A9 at eight in the morning is not. If your destination is one of the stops the Lufthansa Express Bus serves, check that too. Book a car when there are three or four of you and the per-head fares have overtaken one vehicle, when you land before the first train or after the last, when you are carrying ski or golf luggage, or when you are going to the Alps, the lakes, Austria or a suburban business address — which between them account for most of what people actually book from this airport.
At the other end
Munich is the furthest of the big hubs from its own city — 28.5 km, and the S-Bahn takes about forty minutes on a good day. It is also the only German airport where a large share of arrivals are not going to the city at all: the lakes are south of it, the Alps an hour and a half beyond that, and Salzburg and Innsbruck are both comfortable road journeys.
The centre, and the Neues Rathaus above it, whose Glockenspiel performs twice a day to a crowd that is always larger than the show deserves. Climb the Alter Peter opposite instead — the tower stair is unpleasant and the view over the square is the best in the city.
Larger than Central Park, and with a standing wave in the Eisbach at its southern tip where people have been surfing, in the middle of a landlocked city, since the 1970s. There is a beer garden at the Chinesischer Turm halfway up.
On an island in the Isar, and one of the largest museums of science and technology anywhere — mining tunnels in the basement, aircraft overhead, and considerably more of it than one visit will cover.
The permanent food market a short walk from Marienplatz, with a beer garden in the middle of it that rotates its brewery through the year. It is where the city buys lunch rather than a reconstruction of where it used to.
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 28.5 km north-east, near Freising — the largest gap between any major German airport and its city. In free-flowing traffic the road journey is roughly forty minutes, and materially longer in the morning and evening peaks, which is why the pickup is timed from your actual landing rather than from your scheduled one.
The terminal your flight actually arrives at, taken from the flight number you give at booking. At Terminal 1 we also confirm the module — A to E each have their own arrivals area, so naming the terminal alone is not enough at this airport.
60 minutes of free waiting time after touchdown, which covers passport control and baggage reclaim on a normal arrival. Flights are tracked, so a delay moves the pickup rather than costing you the booking.
Transfers run from Munich Airport into the Bavarian Alps, the lake district and across into Austria, priced by route rather than by meter. Winter arrivals with ski luggage and family groups are the most common bookings, and both are the cases where a per-vehicle price beats a per-person one most clearly.
Yes — tell us at booking so the right vehicle is sent. Skis and golf bags are a volume problem rather than a weight one, and the difference between a saloon and an estate or van is the difference between a comfortable transfer and an argument at the kerb. There is no charge for declaring it; there is a real cost to not declaring it.
Yes, and to the specific entrance rather than a general address. Munich’s exhibition grounds are east of the city at Riem, which is on the opposite side from the airport approach — during a large fair that crossing is the slow part of the journey, and a price agreed in advance does not move with the traffic.
Guides
It has its own German word — Flughafenwechsel — which tells you how routinely it happens.
Bavaria is the largest German state, and its three airports are 5, 28.5 and 110 km from the city they name.
Germany runs the largest trade fair circuit in the world, and every stop on it has the same week-long transport failure.
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.
