Munich Airport Terminal 2

Terminal 2 opened in 2003 and is the simpler of Munich’s two buildings to be collected from, for one reason: it has one arrivals hall on Level 03 rather than five module-sized ones. Wherever your aircraft parks, you converge on the same exit.

The complication here is airside rather than landside. A midfield satellite opened in 2016 and is reached by an underground people mover, so a long-haul arrival can involve a train ride before you reach passport control at all. That does not change where you are met — it changes how long it takes you to get there, which is why the free waiting time after touchdown matters more at this terminal than at most.

The forecourt rules are Munich-wide: ten free minutes, twice per calendar day, with re-entry charged as a new stop. Car park P20 has a covered walkway straight into the terminal, and P26 is the other convenient one.

Your driver waits inside the Level 03 arrivals hall with a name sign, before you come through. Because the flight is tracked from the number you gave at booking, a delayed long-haul or a slow satellite transfer moves the pickup rather than eating into it.

This is the terminal most intercontinental arrivals into Munich use, which means it is also the terminal where people land tired, at odd hours, with the most luggage and the longest onward journey. It is the case for a fixed price at its strongest.

A move to Terminal 1 is handled on our side — we see the reassignment on the flight number and the driver goes there instead. Terminal 1 is adjacent and connected landside, so if you do need to walk it, you can. What you should not do is agree a meeting point with somebody in advance based on the terminal printed on your ticket, because at Munich that is the piece of information most likely to change.