Memmingen Airport

Memmingen Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDJA
IATA code	FMM
Coordinates	47 ° 59 '33 "  N , 10 ° 14' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '33 "  N , 10 ° 14' 37"  E
Height above MSL	629 m (2064  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	3.8 km southeast of Memmingen , 110 km west of Munich
Street	Memmingen East Cross Memmingen
Local transport	Memmingen train station (approx. 4.5 km away)
Basic data
opening	1936/2004
operator	Memmingen Airport GmbH
surface	207 ha
Terminals	1
Passengers	1,722,764 (2019)
Flight movements	11,082 (2017)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	2,000,000
Employees	100 (2018)
Start-and runway
06/24	2630 m × 45 m asphalt
website
www.allgaeu-airport.de

The Memmingen Airport ( IATA : FMM , ICAO : EDJA , and Allgäu Airport Memmingen / Munich West Airport ) is the commercial airport of the city of Memmingen in Swabia . With 1.72 million passengers (2019), it is the smallest of three commercial airports in Bavaria and the highest airport in Germany .

The Memmingerberg Air Base was completed in the course of the armament of the Wehrmacht in 1936 and the Combat Squadron 51 "Edelweiss" was stationed there. Towards the end of the Second World War, large parts of the complex were destroyed by three bomb attacks. From 1956 the air base was used by the German air force and in 1959 the fighter-bomber squadron 34 "Allgäu" was put into service. During the Cold War , American nuclear weapons were stored on the site as part of nuclear sharing . It was decided to dissolve the squadron when Air Force Structure 5 was taken at the end of 2000. The air base was shut down in mid-2004.

As early as 2002, a consortium of local entrepreneurs founded air + park allgäu GmbH & Co. KG , which later renamed itself Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG , in order to prepare the possibility of civilian use of the airport after its closure. It is the operating company and, with over 70 limited partners, is largely owned by local medium-sized companies. In July 2004 the license was granted under the name Regionaler Verkehrsflughafen Allgäu . The first scheduled flights began in mid-2007 and in September 2008 the space was formally renamed Memmingen Airport. It is served by the low-cost airlines Ryanair , Wizz Air and Pobeda , which have a large share of the flight and passenger volume. Various charter companies fly to other international destinations, some of them seasonally. In addition to scheduled and charter traffic , the airport is also used for general aviation , as an alternate airport and for training flights by the German armed forces.

Location and transport links

The airport is located about three kilometers east of Memmingen or two kilometers from the Memmingen-Ost motorway junction of the A 96 and is signposted from there and from the A 7 . It can also be reached via the federal highways 300 and 312 via Memmingen. Memmingen Airport is located north of the Allgäu and around 80 km from the Austrian federal states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol and around 100 km from Eastern Switzerland. Around 11.3 million people from a total of four countries live in the airport's catchment area within a 2-hour drive; however, the catchment areas of the international airports in Munich and Stuttgart and the regional airport in Friedrichshafen also extend to Memmingen.

With the public transport , there are links to about 4.5 kilometers from Memmingen train station with the city bus line 2 and the regional transport line 810/811 . There are regular EuroCity connections to Munich and Zurich as well as an Intercity connection to the Ruhr area (sometimes further to Hanover / Leipzig) and Oberstdorf once a day . Since 2017, tickets can also be booked through to the airport by train.

The Allgäu-Airport-Express , a cooperation between the airport and a local bus company, connects the airport with Munich several times a day with express buses. Flixbus has integrated the airport into its route network several times a day with the 063 line and on the weekends with the 186 and 005 lines.

To accommodate the increasing traffic through the town of Memmingerberg towards the airport, a bypass road was built around the town and opened to traffic in November 2013. Demands for their own new motorway junction have been rejected so far.

It is noteworthy that Ryanair , Wizz Air and other low-cost airlines suggest a spatial proximity to the city of Munich for marketing reasons, by initially designating the airport as Memmingen / Munich-West Airport and later as Memmingen Munich Airport . The distance of around 100 km is one of the largest in Europe that a commercial airport has to the city that gives it its name. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is comparable , which is also about 100 km as the crow flies from the associated metropolis (Frankfurt am Main), although the usual route there is 110–125 km. The airline Ryanair only calls the airport Memmingen, since flights from Munich are now also offered.

history

Memmingerberg Air Base 1935–1945

The first planning and surveying work for the layout of an airfield began in 1934. The then Lord Mayor of Memmingen Heinrich Berndl asked in a letter to the Reich Aviation Ministry that the airport be built as close as possible to the city for good transport links. On January 21, 1936, construction of the 300 meter by 1,500 meter military airfield near Memmingerberg began. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 18, 1936, and at the turn of the year 1936/37, parts of Kampfgeschwader 255 Alpengeschwader were stationed there, which were soon renamed Kampfgeschwader 51 Edelweiß . During this time, aircraft of the types He 111 , Do 17 and Ju 88 were used at the airfield . Six halls had been completed by August 1939. The aim of the expansion was to create enough capacity for two groups of combat aircraft.

After the outbreak of World War II , missions were initially flown from Memmingerberg, and in early 1940 the squadron was transferred to various airfields in France . The facility was then expanded, including a one-kilometer-long runway made of concrete . In the meantime, a department of the Reich Labor Service has been relocated from Rississen to Memmingerberg. During the war the place was used by the Destroyer School 2 . It also served to test various new aircraft, including the first jet fighter Me 262 and the " America bomber ", Me 264 . Other combat units were also briefly stationed at the air base, sometimes only for a few days.

The first heavy bombing attack with major damage took place on March 18, 1944. Over 800 aircraft penetrated into the airspace over Memmingen and the bombardment lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. Twelve people died that day, and another 27 people the following day. Another major attack on the air base on July 18, 1944 began at 11 o'clock in four waves with 50-60 planes each. 170 people were killed and 140 wounded. Three halls were completely destroyed, three more, the shipyard and the accommodation damaged. In addition, 26 aircraft were completely destroyed and 40 more damaged. On the opposite side, 14 American B-17 bombers and seven P-51 Mustang escorts were shot down. Two days later, the airfield was attacked again and the remaining infrastructure and 40 aircraft were destroyed, 30 more were damaged. Another 18 dead and seven wounded were mourned at the air base. In the weeks that followed, makeshift attempts were made to restore the infrastructure. Up until the surrender in 1945 there were three other heavy and several light air raids. On August 14, 1944, the Horst was attacked by fighter bombers and seven aircraft were badly damaged. On February 25, March 8 and March 22, 1945, the field was attacked by low-level planes. On April 9, there was a heavy attack with 96 B-24 bombers , in which not only the air base, but also parts of Memmingen were destroyed, which led to high casualties among the civilian population. The last attack on Memmingen took place on April 23, 1945. On April 26, the city was surrendered to the United States Armed Forces without a fight .

After the war, the buildings, which were still intact, served as temporary accommodation for those who had been displaced .

Military airfield from 1954 to 2003

Memmingen airfield in 2000 with the still green control tower and the green Picasso hall in military operation

→ Main article : Fighter-bomber squadron 34 "Allgäu"  and pilot school "S"

From 1954 the United States Air Force used the area of ​​the air base as a training area. In 1955, the reconstruction of the runway, the halls and buildings began. In June 1956, a pre-command with the pilot school "S" was transferred to the field and this was used for the German Air Force , which started full flight training operations with Piper PA-18 and North Noratlas aircraft from October 1956 . The school included transport pilot and helicopter training as well as blind flight training .

In 1959, due to lack of space, the school was relocated to Wunstorf , Diepholz and Faßberg, and from there the newly formed Fighter Bomber Wing 34 was relocated to Memmingerberg. On May 5, 1959, this new unit, which was given the nickname Allgäu in 1992 , was ceremoniously put into service in Memmingerberg by the then Federal Minister of Defense , Franz Josef Strauss . Since then, around 2,400 soldiers and civil servants have been employed at the air base.

During the Cold War , American nuclear weapons were stored on the site as part of nuclear sharing. A US Air Force squadron with up to 400 soldiers was responsible for these weapons from 1966 to 1996 . These were housed in a separate area of ​​the air base, which also had its own facilities such as an American school and a supermarket.

It was decided to dissolve the squadron when Air Force Structure 5 was taken at the end of 2000. On December 31, 2002, operational flight operations were officially ceased. The final decommissioning took place on June 30, 2003. Memmingerberg Air Base was shut down on March 31, 2004. From April 1, 2004 the area belonged to the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Memmingen Airport from 2004 to 2010

The premises of Memmingen Airport 2005, today's terminal in the center of the picture on the left

View across the apron to the terminal with Flybe and Ryanair machines

On June 13, 2002, local entrepreneurs and the Unterallgäu district founded air + park allgäu GmbH & Co. KG, which was later renamed Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG , in order to prepare the possibility of civilian use of the airport after its closure. On July 31st, an application for a change permit under aviation law was submitted to the Aviation Office of Southern Bavaria. On July 20, 2004 it was approved as a regional airport in Allgäu .

General aviation operations began on August 5 of the same year, but at that time there was still no scheduled or charter air traffic. At the Hanover Fair in 2005, daily necessity flights were offered for the first time; however, due to a lack of demand, these had to be canceled again. Another scheduled service planned by Dauair , twice a week to Dortmund and Rostock from August 27, 2006, could not be carried out due to bankruptcy . As a replacement in autumn 2006, airline Walter offered flights twice a week for an Allgäu hotelier between Dortmund and Memmingen ; the number of passengers in the two-month phase was limited to around 100 people.

At the end of June 2005, the Oberallgäu district decided to provide start-up aid of 480,000 euros for the airport. On September 18, 2005, the population of the city of Memmingen decided in a referendum with a narrow majority to grant additional start-up aid of 200,000 euros. In a referendum, also carried out on September 18, 2005, in the Unterallgäu district, however, the citizens clearly decided against start-up funding of 400,000 euros. On December 15, 2005, after three years of negotiations with the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks, the sale of the airport site was completed. 144 hectares of the total area of ​​243 hectares became the property of the operating company. Originally, an appraisal had shown a value for the airport site of 32 million euros, which referred to building land prices. The airport area was actually sold for 2.1 million euros, which corresponds to a flat rate of less than 1.50 euros per square meter, including all buildings and all other infrastructure. In return, the operating company undertook to take over the contaminated sites. The Free State of Bavaria funded investments in the conversion of the military airfield into a civil commercial airport and in this context promised an investment grant of 7.5 million euros. In March 2007 , the EU approved this subsidy as part of a notification procedure .

The lawsuits of three surrounding communities as well as several residents and farmers before the Bavarian Administrative Court against the aviation permit were dismissed by judgment of December 2, 2005. The Federal Administrative Court had admitted an appeal against this judgment due to its fundamental importance , but dismissed this and thus all pending lawsuits after an oral hearing on December 13, 2007 in the last instance.

The conversion of the Picasso Hall , a former maintenance hangar of the former air base into a terminal for handling passengers, was completed shortly before scheduled flight operations began in 2007; an instrument landing system and other technical equipment were also installed during this time and parking areas were installed on the site of the former air base . Administration and service building set up. Areas for general aviation were created south of the runway . For the 2008 summer flight schedule, the number of parking spaces on the airport premises was almost doubled in order to be able to offer sufficient parking spaces for the forecast passenger volume.

With effect from September 25, 2008 the place was formally renamed Memmingen and this was announced in NfL I 230/08.

In May 2009 the terminal was expanded and, among other things, a second floor with additional waiting areas was set up - the expansion was opened on May 29th by the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Zeil . A year later, the terminal building was expanded by two more gates to a total of six, increasing the capacity of the terminal to 1.5 million passengers. In September 2010, plans were published that a new hotel should be built on the airport grounds. For this purpose, the former air base hospital was rebuilt and expanded.

In 2010, the low-cost airline Ryanair took up scheduled services. She was poached from Friedrichshafen Airport after it refused to pay the marketing subsidies demanded by Ryanair. In the following years, Ryanair developed into the primary airline based in Memmingen.

Expansion from 2010 to 2020

In November 2010, plans for further structural measures were announced, including a widening of the runway including the expansion of the taxiways and the expansion of the terminal. In June 2011 the planning approval decision for the expansion measures announced in winter 2010 was applied for. According to planning, the runway will be widened from 30 meters to 45 meters and extended from 2401 meters to 2981 meters. The concreted area on which the runway is located is 2981 meters long and 60 meters wide, although due to various factors (see technical equipment ) only the inner area of ​​30 meters wide and 2401 meters long has served as a runway. The expansion does not change the size of the poured concrete. The track will be widened from 30 to 45 meters by dividing the previously 15 meters wide fortified shoulders on both sides, each on half. H. 7.5 meters can be narrowed. The runway will be extended from 2401 to 2630 meters. The runway lighting will also be renewed. In addition, an instrument landing system (ILS) is to be set up in the secondary approach direction 06 and commissioning is expected to take place in 2021.

In addition to these measures, further asphalt and civil engineering works are being added, such as the enlargement of the apron, the extension of the baggage hall to a size of 2,100 m² and the construction of a new rain retention basin. In addition, the construction of new hangars and an expansion of the parking facilities are planned. In connection with the expansion, vacant buildings or land are to be rented or sold. An application was made to extend the regular operating time from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and to allow delayed flights until 11:30 p.m.

At the beginning of March 2013, the government of Upper Bavaria approved the planning approval decision with the expansion of the terminal, the construction of new hangars as well as the widening and extension of the runway and the expansion of the taxiways. A partial extension of flight operating times was also approved under certain restrictions. Several citizens, the Bund Naturschutz and the municipality of Westerheim filed a lawsuit against the decision. The municipality of Memmingerberg participated in the lawsuit, but only against the extension of the flight times and not against the entire planning approval decision. The trial against the airport expansion and the extension of flight times took place in June and July 2015 before the Administrative Court in Munich . The court dismissed all lawsuits on July 14, 2015; a revision was not permitted. In September 2017, the EU Commission approved aid from the Free State of Bavaria, which is now allowed to contribute 12.2 million euros out of a total of 17 million euros in expansion costs.

In December 2017, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified the airport's safety standards.

The expansion was further delayed by busy construction companies and the cost forecast was increased from 17 to 20 million euros. The official groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 5, 2018 by Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder . During the widening of the runway, the airport was closed from September 17 to 30, 2019 inclusive. The overall expansion should be completed by 2020.

A former bunker on the airport premises is to be used by the Bunker Plant Extracts company for growing cannabis.

Airlines and Destinations

TUIfly operated the first scheduled flights at the airport

A Boeing 737-800 from Ryanair at Memmingen Airport

On June 28, 2007, TUIfly started scheduled air traffic at Memmingen Airport. The holiday destinations Mallorca , Crete , Naples , Rome , Venice and Antalya as well as domestic German flight connections to Berlin and Hamburg were initially offered . For the 2007 winter flight schedule and the 2008 summer flight schedule, the offer was successively expanded, including new connections to Cologne and Tel Aviv .

From April 2009 the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair , which had announced that it would market Memmingen Airport as Munich West , initially offered flights from Memmingen to Alghero , Alicante , Dublin , Girona , London-Stansted , Pisa and Reus . In autumn 2009 the offer was expanded, from October the additional destinations Bremen and Stockholm- Skavsta and from November the Scottish Edinburgh were served . Since then, other destinations have been added, some of which are seasonal, including Trapani and Faro . Rome-Ciampino and Palma followed in the 2011 summer flight schedule . Two new routes to Brussels-Charleroi and Budapest have been announced for the 2012 summer flight schedule.

Wizz Air machine at Memmingen Airport

The Hungarian airline Wizz Air has been offering a connection to Kiev since August 7, 2009, and Katowice in Poland was also served from September 22, 2009 to February 2010 . This was followed by a connection to Lviv , which was soon suspended due to renovation work at the airport and not resumed, as well as a new connection to the Serbian capital Belgrade for the 2011 summer flight schedule . From October 3, 2013, the Ukrainian city of Donetsk was also served ; the connection was closed again in 2014 due to the destruction of Donetsk airport . Wizz Air wants to expand Memmingen into its southern German location in the long term .

On October 25, 2009, most of TUIfly's city connections were taken over by Air Berlin , including connections to Hamburg, Cologne (both were discontinued) and Berlin, while the remaining TUIfly routes from Memmingen, including connections to Rome and Pisa , for the 2009/2010 winter flight schedule was canceled. The company was therefore no longer present in Memmingen for the first time since summer 2007, but it returned seasonally for the 2010 summer flight schedule. Berlin was also no longer served by Air Berlin as of the 2010/2011 winter flight schedule. In the course of the introduction of the air traffic tax, Ryanair canceled all domestic German airlines, so with the connection to Bremen the last domestic German connection from Memmingen was canceled .

After the withdrawal of Air Berlin, the dominant position of Ryanair, which carried out 88.2% of all scheduled flights in the winter of 2010/2011, strengthened.

In order to create a larger offer at the airport and to be able to offer domestic German flights again, some shareholders of the airport founded touropa touristik GmbH & Co. KG with the Munich entrepreneur Georg Eisenreich . Under the traditional brand, package tours with flights to Gran Canaria, La Palma, Cyprus, Hurghada and Antalya were first offered. For this purpose, an Airbus A319 from Germania was chartered and stationed at the airport. The flights began with the start of the 2012 summer flight schedule. In March 2012 it was announced that Avanti Air would be operating scheduled connections to Berlin and Hamburg on behalf of Touropa from June 2012. For this purpose, an aircraft of the type ATR 72-200 with three crews and technicians was stationed at the airport. The flights operated under the name flytouropa, under which individual flights could also be booked for the flights offered by Germania. Due to a lack of demand, flights to Berlin and Hamburg were discontinued on December 1, 2012, and flights to the Canary Islands from January 12, 2013 on. After the other destinations (Cyprus, Hurghada and Antalya) had already been discontinued in the course of 2012, Touropa no longer offers flights from Memmingen.

The weekly flights to the Canary Islands Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, planned from May 4, 2013, did not materialize because the operator Aviation Service Erfurt had stopped selling these trips. The airline XL Airways Germany , which was initially used, filed for bankruptcy, and Enter Air , which was supposed to step in in its place, withdrew.

On October 10, 2013 it was announced that Germanwings wanted to operate regular flights from Memmingen to Berlin and Hamburg from December 8, 2013 . The flights, which were to be marketed both individually and in combination with overnight stays, were ultimately operated by Eurowings . Due to the phasing out of the CRJ900 aircraft at Germanwings, they should be abandoned soon afterwards. However, Intersky then announced that it would take over and expand the flights as a stopover to and from Friedrichshafen.

Wizz Air has been flying to the Romanian city ​​of Timișoara twice a week since November 1, 2014 . For the 2015 summer flight schedule, Wizz Air announced that it would further expand its commitment and serve the city of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the capitals of Bulgaria and Lithuania , Sofia and Vilnius . With the new destinations Hermannstadt (Sibiu) , Kutaisi , Niš and Podgorica , Wizz Air replaced Ryanair as the most active airline at Memmingen Airport in the 2016 summer flight schedule.

On the evening of November 5, 2015, the regional airline InterSky ceased operations. The routes to Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne / Bonn were completely eliminated. Since then there have been no more domestic German flights from Memmingen.

Since the 2016 summer flight schedule, the low-cost airline Pobeda , a 100% subsidiary of the Russian state airline Aeroflot , has been offering flights to its hub in Moscow .

Ryanair has been operating a base in Memmingen with 35 employees since September 1, 2017 and has one aircraft permanently stationed there. In total, Ryanair served 16 destinations from Memmingen in the winter; Fes, Oradea, Seville, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Warsaw Modlin were new. Since March 31, 2019, another Ryanair aircraft has been stationed in Memmingen and the workforce has been increased to 70 employees. Primarily existing destinations will be expanded and some of them will be served year-round.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 winter flight schedule has been drastically restricted. From April 5th to May 11th, flights were only possible after prior registration . Regular flight operations as part of the 2020 summer flight schedule are to be resumed from July 1 .

In the 2020 summer flight schedule, as of July 14, 2020, eight airlines are serving 49 destinations from Memmingen, in addition to destinations in Eastern Europe, primarily holiday destinations in the Mediterranean region.

Military air traffic

In addition to civil air traffic, military air traffic by the German armed forces also takes place at Memmingen Airport.

• Memmingen Airport serves as an alternate airport for Tactical Air Force Squadron 74 based in Neuburg an der Donau . Twice a year there is also a training course for civilian personnel at Memmingen Airport and flight exercises are carried out.

• From the Luftlande / Lufttransport training base in Altenstadt , Upper Bavaria, there are regular practice flights with the A400M military transport aircraft and parachute jump exercises with the M28 short-haul transport aircraft .

• For Lechfeld Air Base in Lagerlechfeld at which a deployment of the military transporter A400M is planned, the Memmingen airport will also serve as the alternate airport.

• From the Laupheim airfield , where the helicopter squadron 64 of the German air force is stationed, there are regular flights from CH-53 transport helicopters over Memmingen airport.
• With the A400M , transfer flights are regularly flown over Memmingen Airport within the Bundeswehr.

Traffic figures

In the first few years after the airport opened in 2004, there was no significant passenger traffic. After the start of scheduled flight operations in June 2007, over 380,000 passengers were recorded in the first twelve months. In the first full financial year 2008, 460,081 passengers were handled. Since then, the number of passengers at the airport has risen steadily and reached its peak with 911,609 passengers in 2010. The decline in 2011 was primarily due to the discontinuation of domestic German connections after Air Berlin stopped operating its routes. For 2012, the airport expected 950,000 passengers, but only reached 869,937. The number increased by 14 percent compared to the previous year, but the target we had set ourselves was clearly missed. The number of passengers reached its low point in 2014 at 750,334. Since then, the number of passengers has increased steadily. The increase is also very much due to the increasing number of flight connections to Eastern Europe. In 2017, the airport handled more than a million passengers in one year for the first time. On December 6, 2018, the ten millionth passenger was welcomed. According to an expert report on the expansion of the airport, an annual passenger volume of up to 2.8 million is expected by 2025.

According to an interview with the manager of the airport in the spring of 2015, the proportion of passengers who begin their journey at the Allgäu Airport and back end (is outgoing ) 59%; the proportion of passengers arriving via Allgäu Airport and spending a limited time in the vicinity of the airport ( incoming ) is 41%. According to the results of a study by the Ifo Institute on behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs in December 2018, an average of 40% of the passengers at Memmingen Airport are incoming passengers. Almost two thirds of all overnight stays by travelers remain in Bavaria, and almost 60% of them in the Bavarian target regions of this study. However, many also travel to neighboring Baden-Württemberg or the neighboring countries of Austria and Switzerland. According to the above-mentioned study by the Ifo Institute, 294,700 passengers entered Memmingen Airport in 2018. Of the incoming passengers, 21% stated the Allgäu as their destination and 40% of them named a private holiday trip as the reason. The figures from the Ifo study and the data from the Bavarian State Office for Statistics show that, with almost 4 million guests arriving in the Allgäu in 2018, 0.6% of Allgäu holidaymakers arrived via Allgäu Airport.

The following information comes from the archive of statistics on the development in passenger and freight traffic of the Airport Association ADV and the statistics of the Federal Statistical Office .

Source: ADV, GENESIS

Source: ADV, GENESIS

year	Flight movements	Passengers
2005	5,338	4,769
2006	5,724	4,715
2007	10,948	173.103
2008	7,985	460,081
2009	10,000	812.217
2010	10,292	911,609
2011	8,389	767.782
2012	10,368	867.375
2013	8,546	838,969
2014	8,540	750.334
2015	10.145	883.490
2016	9,759	996.714
2017	11,082	1,179,875
2018	13,082	1,492,553
2019	13,930	1,722,764

Busiest flight routes from FMM

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	London Stansted	45.187	▼ -4.82%	47,477	285	▼ -8.06%	310
2	Sofia	43,393	▲ 1.92%	42,576	237	▼ -3.66%	246
3	Kiev Shulyany	41,233	▲ 54.56%	26,678	254	▲ 51.19%	168
4th	Palma de Mallorca	32,275	▲ 37.96%	23,395	211	▲ 32.7%	159
5	Sibiu	31,086	▲ 97.28%	15,757	201	▲ 95.15%	103
6th	Skopje	29,349	▲ 30.19%	22,544	155	▲ 11.51%	139
7th	postage	25,822	▼ -5.57%	27,345	150	▼ -4.46%	157
8th	Faro	24,124	▼ -2.26%	24,683	141	▼ -4.08%	147
9	Alicante	23,671	▲ 16.39%	20,337	137	▲ 14.17%	120
10	Palermo	23,461	▼ -0.92%	23,678	137	▼ -2.14%	140
11	Belgrade	22,889	▲ 18.7%	19,283	140	▲ 13.82%	123
12	Dublin	22,596	▼ -10.9%	25,359	140	▼ -5.41%	148
13	Timisoara	22,238	▲ 6.74%	20,833	142	▲ 3.65%	137
14th	Moscow-Vnukovo	22,024	▼ -40.59%	37,071	128	▼ -42.08%	221
15th	Warsaw Modlin	20,041	Route new	0	143	Route new	0
16	Tuzla	18,711	▲ 16.24%	16.097	121	▲ 16.35%	104
17th	Malaga	18,331	▼ -0.16%	18,361	107	▼ -3.6%	111
18th	Tenerife South	18,263	▲ 0.01%	18,262	104	▼ -0.95%	105
19th	Seville	17,772	Route new	0	105	Route new	0
20th	Varna	16,769	Route new	0	107	Route new	0
21st	Thessaloniki	16,743	Route new	0	102	Route new	0
22nd	Nis	15,980	▲ 4.39%	15.308	102	▼ -1.92%	104
23	Stockholm Skavsta	15,954	Route new	0	103	Route new	0
24	Podgorica	15,803	▲ 6.64%	14,819	102	▼ -0.97%	103
25th	Fez	15,578	Route new	0	102	Route new	0
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

Busiest flight routes by country from FMM

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	Spain	120,923	▲ 26.16%	95,847	733	▲ 22.99%	596
2	Romania	86,919	▲ 57.54%	55.173	587	▲ 54.07%	381
3	Bulgaria	70.001	▲ 41.01%	49,644	404	▲ 37.88%	293
4th	Portugal	49,946	▼ -4.01%	52.030	291	▼ -4.59%	305
5	Great Britain	47.241	▼ -0.73%	47,586	317	▼ -4.8%	333
6th	Ukraine	44.056	▲ 60.62%	27,429	272	▲ 55.43%	175
7th	Serbia	38,869	▲ 12.37%	34,591	242	▲ 6.61%	227
8th	Italy	37,047	▲ 2.16%	36,262	264	▲ 1.15%	261
9	North Macedonia	29,349	▲ 30.19%	22,544	155	▲ 11.51%	139
10	Greece	27,955	▲ 78.55%	15,657	169	▲ 72.45%	98
11	Poland	24,032	▲ 291.66%	6.136	175	▲ 264.58%	48
12	Ireland	22.605	▼ -10.87%	25,362	142	▼ -4.7%	149
13	Russia	22,025	▼ -40.59%	37,076	129	▼ -42.15%	223
14th	Bosnia a. Herzegovina	21.309	▲ 32.38%	16.097	138	▲ 32.69%	104
15th	Morocco	18,495	▲ 284.19%	4,814	121	▲ 255.88%	34
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

Operating company and financial situation

The airport is operated by Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG . The company was founded in 2002 by eight medium-sized companies from the Memmingen region: Magnet-Schultz , Pfeifer Holding , Dachser , Berger Holding , Hans Kolb Wellpappe , MAHA Maschinenbau Haldenwang , SWH and Kurrle Holding. On September 4, 2015, the company comprised 73 companies, municipalities and private individuals as limited partners with limited partner contributions i. H. v. € 9,520,000. The district of Neu-Ulm is directly with a limited partner contribution i. H. v. € 100,000.00 involved. This was already declared worthless in 2012 due to the losses at the airport and written down to a memorable value of one euro. Other public local authorities, such as the cities of Kempten (Allgäu) and Kaufbeuren or the districts of Ostallgäu and Oberallgäu are indirectly through the Allgäuer Regional- und Investitionsgesellschaft mbH as the largest partner in the airport with a limited partner's share i. H. v. € 1.6 million involved. In 2012 this share was written down by 50% to € 0.8 million due to the airport's losses. The second largest shareholder is the Risk Capital Fund Allgäu GmbH & Co. KG, Kempten with a limited partner's share i. H. v. 850,000.00 €, followed by Raiffeisenbank Kleinwalsertal with a limited partner's share i. H. v. € 500,000.00. Equity on December 31, 2014 was € 5,010,358.35. The capital shares of the limited partners i. H. v. 9,520,000.00 € and their capital accounts II i. H. v. 10,631,000 € were loss accounts in the amount of H. v. 15,140,461.65 € and 1,353,184.30 € against the loss shares of limited partners not covered by capital contributions. Ralf Schmid has been the company's managing director since 2002.

On February 3, 2016, “Flughafen Memmingen GmbH, Memmingerberg” was entered in the commercial register. The object of the company is the "implementation of flight operations at the Memmingen Airport in Memmingerberg (IATA CODE: FMM). This includes, in particular, the operation of the entire infrastructure required for handling flight operations (runway, approach lighting, technical handling of flight operations) as well as the entire area of ​​operation of the terminal including passenger handling. This includes holding and managing investments; the management of real estate; all promotional activities directly or indirectly related to the aforementioned activities. ”The share capital amounts to 25,000.00 €. Ralf Schmid was appointed managing director (as with Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG).

ALLgate GmbH, responsible for passenger handling , is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. In addition, Allgäu Airport has a 40% stake in Losch Airport Service Allgäu GmbH, which is responsible for aircraft handling.

The first years of the company were characterized by investments such as the purchase of the airport site and the renovation of existing facilities. The 2008 balance sheet put eight million euros in losses to date, eleven million euros in long-term liabilities and 100,000 euros in cash, which made it necessary for the shareholders to increase their deposits. However, this balance sheet did not include the subsidies from the Free State of Bavaria for the renovation of the infrastructure, some of which had already been paid in advance.

By the end of 2009, the company had invested a total of 22 million euros with grants. In 2009, the airport generated a profit of 35,000 euros in operational business for the first time . The turnover this year was at 8.1 million, liabilities at 12.4 million euros and the total assets at 17.5 million euros.

The operating result increased to 106,000 euros in 2010, despite more difficult conditions such as the discontinuation of domestic connections. Overall, however, the airport posted a loss of 610,000 euros, with a turnover of 9.5 million euros, liabilities of 12.7 million euros and a balance sheet total of 18.9 million euros. The equity ratio rose from 23.8% in the previous year to 28.7% and, according to the managing director, was above the average of all German airports. A worse result was achieved in 2011 due to the decrease in passengers. A loss of EUR 2,030,843 was recorded, the equity ratio fell to 24.6%. Liabilities rose by 6.8% to 13.6 million euros and the balance sheet total was 19.9 million euros. The result in 2012 could be improved slightly due to the increased number of passengers. A loss of 1,125,499 euros was recorded, the equity ratio fell to 19.5%. The reason given for the increase in outside capital was an increase in shareholder loans or shareholder-related loans to finance investment activities. The liabilities increased to 17.6 million euros by the end of 2014 with a balance sheet total of 22.9 million euros.

As a result of the approved planning approval decision, extensive investments in the infrastructure amounting to 15 million euros are planned. The high annual deficits of the airport company and the expansion plans are criticized by the opponents.

The loss in 2013 was 1.6 million euros. In 2014 it rose to 1.753 million euros. At the end of 2014, Allgäu Airport took out a seven-digit interim loan to bridge a liquidity bottleneck. The loan came about only through the influence of airport owners. Allgäu Airport had to present a viable business plan by mid-2015, as the two banks involved only disbursed the loans under more stringent conditions. The auditors expressly point out that "ensuring the financial capacity to act depends on the ongoing financing by the shareholders." In 2015, the financial situation improved slightly. A loss of 1,075,065 euros was posted, the equity ratio increased to 29.1%. Liabilities fell slightly compared to the previous year to 17.1 million euros with a balance sheet total of 25 million euros. The airport's financial position stabilized further in 2016. The equity ratio rose to 32.6%, liabilities fell to 14.6 million euros with total assets of 22.9 million euros. The annual result showed a deficit of 498,606 euros, although the number of passengers reached almost 1 million and a profitable operation had been announced for this number. The balance sheet total in 2017 fell by 7.9% to 21.1 million euros compared to the previous year. The equity ratio is 65.3%. The cash change in cash and cash equivalents is clearly positive in 2017 due to inflows from investing activities. Liabilities decreased significantly due to the reduction of bank liabilities by 54.7%.

Breakdown of the previous operating company

Division of the new operating companies

The former Oberallgäu CSU district administrator Gebhard Kaiser, advisor to the airport, wants to divide Airport GmbH into three companies. On February 3, 2016, the airport operating company "Flughafen Memmingen GmbH, Memmingerberg" was founded with a share capital i. H. v. € 25,000.00 entered in the commercial register. It is responsible for flight operations and bears the economic risk of the airport. Another new company to be founded is the “holding company II”, in which the local authorities are to contribute 7.2 million euros. The properties that could not be used up to now due to inadequate development, contaminated sites and aviation regulations (aviation law breaks municipal planning sovereignty) or that are currently used as a parking lot (see also contaminated sites PFT) are to be transferred to this company. The old company is to become the "Owning Company I". It will then include the airport core area and the flight-related commercial areas. This company should then receive the state investment grants i. H. v. € 12.2 million and the sales proceeds that the local authorities will pay for their shares in Holding Company II (€ 7.2 million).

Several counties and cities have already agreed to participate in the holding company II:

• City of Memmingen : 1.8 million euros
• City of Kaufbeuren : 252 thousand euros
• City of Kempten (Allgäu) : 648 thousand euros
• Unterallgäu district : 0.9 million euros
• Landkreiswohnungsbau Unterallgäu GmbH: 0.9 million euros
• Oberallgäu district : 1.37 million euros
• Ostallgäu district : 720 thousand euros
• District of Lindau : 324 thousand euros (Provided that the districts of Oberallgäu, Ostallgäu and Unterallgäu as well as independent cities also participate.)
• District of Neu-Ulm : a maximum of 288 thousand euros (provided that the other municipalities also participate. This commitment is linked to the following expectation: "In future, there will be no further inquiries from the airport operator and Grundbesitzgesellschaft II to the district of Neu-Ulm regarding an increase in the shareholder share, grants or shareholder loans. ")

Against the purchase of land by the city of Memmingen and Unterallgäu a petition was under a on July 14, 2015 citizens' initiative started. The city of Memmingen countered this with a request for advice and the district of Unterallgäu with a request for a district council. After acceptance of the petition for a referendum initiated by the found referendums held in Memmingen and neighboring Unterallgäu on 22 November, 2015.

In the city of Memmingen, the referendum against the purchase of the property achieved 47.1% approval of the votes cast; the council request for the property purchase received 59.6% approval. Since the quorum was not achieved for both requests, they are not legally relevant and the city council's resolution to purchase the property remains in place. In the Unterallgäu, the referendum against the purchase of the property achieved 52.6% approval of the votes cast; the district council request for the purchase of the property received 53.7% approval. The quorum was achieved in both cases. The decision was made on the key question, which was 52.7% in favor of the district council request.

With the signing of the purchase agreement on November 13, 2017, the local authorities acquired a 55 percent stake in a total of 21 hectares on the airport site for 5.9 million euros, which corresponds to a purchase price of 51 euros per square meter and compared to the original price of 1 , 5 euros per square meter can be seen that the airport paid when purchasing the land (see section Memmingen Airport 2004 to 2010 ).

Entrepreneur Bettina Kurrle has been chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Flughafen Memmingen GmbH and the Advisory Board of Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG since 2019.

Infrastructure

Aerial view of the airport

Technical Equipment

Memmingen Airport is equipped with a 2630 meter long runway . The airfield is approved for aircraft with a wingspan of up to 52 meters (ICAO Code 4D).

In the approach direction 24, the airport has an instrument landing system with CAT I all-weather flight operations . An ILS approach procedure is currently being planned for approach direction 06 . The following non-precision approach procedures exist in both directions: circling approach procedures , NDB / DME and GPS approach procedures.

The Cockpit Association criticizes the security at Memmingen Airport because of the lack of technical facilities and has therefore included it in its annually published list of defects since it was founded. In the 2011 report, one of five points of criticism was deleted compared to 2010, since the lighting of the corresponding taxiways has meanwhile been supplemented by the recommended runway guard lights. Memmingen was also reprimanded in 2013 and 2014, with Memmingen with 19 having the most deficiency points among the airports rated in Germany. Complaints were still made about the taxiway parallel to the runway that was not usable for line machines, the lack of runway centreline lights (the lighting of the runway center line) and a complete runway end safety area (a safety area in front of and behind the strip a runway). Compared to 2012, however, the required stop bars have now been retrofitted. As part of the 2019/20 construction work, the Runway Centreline Lights and Runway End Safety Area will be implemented. The airport complies with the national guidelines of the BMVBS and the minimum standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO . The recommendations of the ICAO going beyond this and the stricter requirements of the IFALPA world pilots' association are not fully complied with, which is the reason for the criticism of the Cockpit Association. In 2015, Vereinigung Cockpit completely redesigned its rating system. A grade is now given for each feature. Together with Heringsdorf, Memmingen came second to last with a grade of 2.9. Mannheim Airport came in last . The average for all airports is 2.1.

For the winter months there are facilities for aircraft de-icing with three de-icing vehicles of the type "Elephant Beta". A mixture of water and glycol alcohol heated to over 80 ° Celsius is used as the deicing agent. For surface de Seven snowplows with Kehrblasgeräten, two snow blowers, and three de-icing-Sprayer available.

The surface water that occurs in the area of ​​the runway and the apron areas is discharged into the Schmidbach, also known as Schmittenbach, near Ungerhausen . Until the end of 2014, there was a limited approval from the Unterallgäu district office . On May 6, 2014, a new decision on the discharge of surface water through two discharge points into the Schmittenbach was issued subject to certain conditions. So u must. a. a newly built infiltration basin will be put into operation, which took place in the course of the construction work in 2019/20. Because of the risk of flooding, the Ungerhausen municipal council rejects an expansion of the surface water discharge. In addition, on May 19, 2015, 10.0 ng PFT per liter of water were found at the discharge point for surface water from Allgäu Airport into Schmittenbach (or Schmiedbach) and 33.0 ng PFT per liter of water at the Schmiedbach bridge.

Fuel supply

Already during the initial construction phase of the airport in the 1930s was in Ungerhausen of the turnoff branch line Ungerhausen-Ottobeuren from the railway Buchloe-Memmingen an approximately 4.5-km long railway siding built to supply the airport. It was dismantled in the late 1970s and a pipeline was laid under the route . A pumping station was built near Ungerhausen station to unload the wagons and feed them into the pipeline and tank farm. The facilities were dismantled when the air base closed in 2004. The air base's tank systems are no longer used. The tank farm for Jet A1 , which is used for line machines, is operated by Air PB. There are tankers with Jet A1 and since August 2008 a filling station for AVGAS 100LL and Jet A1 fuel in the south .

Energy management

A combined heat and power plant with an electrical output of 250 kW and a thermal output of 290 kW generates around half of the total energy requirements of Memmingen Airport. The heat released is fed into the existing heating network. A central heating plant is used to supply heat to the majority of the buildings at the airport and the adjacent industrial park. At the parking lots there are charging stations for electric and hybrid vehicles, which are supplied by photovoltaic systems.

Terminal - "Picasso Hall"

The airport terminal was built and used as an aircraft and maintenance hangar in 1957/1958 . It is also called the Picasso Hall because of its self-supporting, curved ceiling construction and the characteristic supporting pillars . At the end of 2006, work began on converting the 2500 square meter hall into a high-performance airport terminal. The terminal was completed in three months for around four million euros, shortly before scheduled flight operations began. In the first expansion stage, it was initially designed for up to 400,000 passengers. A glass front was installed on the north and south sides. The terminal area also had ten check-in counters , areas for travel agencies and rental car companies, for example, and a bistro. The departure area was only for three boarding gates , security gates, a duty-free designed Laden and another bistro. The arrival area consists of the baggage claim area with the two baggage carousels , customs clearance, security control and seating and resting areas. The installation of a second level was also prepared during the expansion. As the airport already had more than 500,000 passengers a year later, the terminal was already at its load limit. In 2009, the second level was installed in one month of construction, largely in night work. This created 325 square meters of new space, 150 additional seats and a new gate and was opened on May 29, 2009 by the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Zeil . In the period that followed, the level was continuously expanded. New elevators, indoor and outdoor stairs, another bistro and two more piers with around 440 square meters were built and opened on May 21, 2010. Gates five and six are mainly used for non-Schengen flights . A total of around 1.7 million euros was invested in further expansion. After these measures, the terminal has a capacity of two million passengers per year on a total area of ​​5,143 square meters.

The airport tower

Control tower

The airport tower went into operation in 1961. The administration of the airport is located in the attached base building. Since June 22, 2007, it has housed the operating rooms of DFS Aviation Services , a subsidiary of Deutsche Flugsicherung , which specializes primarily in small and medium-sized airports. The tower's VHF radio frequency is 126.850 MHz. Other frequencies are ATIS 118.850 MHz and GND 121.675 MHz.

Environmental management

At Memmingen Airport , there is a regular groundwater supply, also due to the contaminated sites . So samples are taken from the groundwater 3-4 times a year and checked for pollutants.

As part of the expansion of Memmingen Airport, compensation areas are to be created for the seals - around 12 hectares are located near Ottobeuren, Ollarzried and Inneberg. One area is located on the western Günz near Inneberg and is to be implemented at the same time as a flood protection measure in cooperation with the Kempten Water Management Office. In addition, around 3 hectares of lark windows were created outside the airport site, and a lizard habitat was created on the airport site in 2018 on an area of ​​around 5,800 m².

Bird strike protection

Some preventive measures have been taken to protect against bird strikes. All bushes that could attract birds with their berries were removed from around the runway. The traffic signs were provided with thorn grids so that they cannot be used as seats for birds. To compensate for this, special perches are attached outside the danger zone. Before every take-off or landing, an attempt is made to scare the birds off with the help of fanfares, alarm pistols and flare ammunition . A peregrine falcon is also regularly used on the area of ​​the airfield to drive away rooks and carrion crows . The passive measures include green space management, with strips approx. 100 m from the runway being kept short. Within the security area, around 135 hectares of green space are managed in accordance with the requirements of long grass management, as specified in the 2013 biotope report of the German Committee for the Prevention of Bird Strikes in Air Traffic (DAVVL). Despite the protective measures, there is an average of one bird strike per month.

Noise management

On December 1, 2012, the ordinance on the establishment of a noise protection area for the Memmingen airport came into force, which was passed by the state government and implements the federal law on protection against aircraft noise (Aircraft Noise Act). Aircraft noise measurements of the continuous noise level are continuously carried out at two locations outside the runway area at the respective approach and departure corridors, and the results of this are published on the airport website.

Employees

At the beginning of 2019, around 100 people were employed full-time and part-time directly at Memmingen Airport, including trainees and students, interns and temporary workers. Around 250 more people work on the airport premises at subsidiaries ALLgate GmbH (passenger handling) and Losch Airport Service Allgäu GmbH (aircraft handling) as well as at third-party companies that are directly assigned to the area of ​​flight operations.

safety

police

The airport police are responsible for all police tasks at the airport and thus combine the functions of criminal, traffic, security and border police. It carries out border controls on departure and entry as well as passenger and baggage checks and is responsible for general questions about ID cards, passports, visas and passport replacement papers. The officers are provided by the Bavarian police . The airport is in the protection area of ​​the Swabian South / West Police Headquarters ; the local authority responsible is the Memmingen Police Station . The airport guard is located in a building next to the terminal. In 2017 the station was manned by 34 police officers. Due to the growth of the airport and the increasing number of destinations from countries outside the Schengen area, a further increase in staff became necessary. At the beginning of 2018, for example, the staff was increased to 50 positions at short notice. On January 1, 2020, the previous airport police were replaced by the Bavarian border police . From an organizational point of view, this is still affiliated to the Memmingen Police Station, but is under the supervision of the Border Police Directorate in Passau. In spring 2020, the workforce grew to 70 police officers.

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The airport operating company had applied for restricted customs status before the scheduled flight operations began. However, this was initially refused, which meant that the handling of non-Schengen flights had to be announced 24 hours in advance. Since the nearby customs authorities did not have any free capacities, officials from the Bavarian Forest had to travel regularly for clearance . The operating company had to bear the costs incurred, such as for the travel and accommodation of the officials. For 2008, the airport had applied for a permanent office to be set up by the tax authorities in order to be able to increase the number of flights to and from countries that have not signed the Schengen Agreement. The Federal Ministry of Finance rejected this in October 2007 on the grounds that there were already enough customs airports in southern Germany and that such an office was not expected to be sufficiently utilized. The customs clearance in non-EU countries was then a little easier: The main customs office in Augsburg exempted the airport from the so-called “customs airfield compulsory” and from the transport obligation for the weekly flights to and from Antalya in Turkey on the instructions of the Federal Ministry of Finance. So now customs officials from the region could take over the controls. It was also sufficient if a flight was announced an hour in advance. After long negotiations, it was announced in August 2010 that Memmingen Airport will have a customs office with officials stationed there and that they will no longer have to travel specifically to handle non-Schengen flights. The control unit at Memmingerberg Airport (Allgäu Airport) is organizationally a branch of the main customs office in Augsburg .

Airport fire brigade

Airfield fire engine Falke 2 (Z8)

The airport fire brigade employs 30 people in a three-shift system in order to ensure constant readiness for action during flight operating times. The fleet consists of two airfield fire fighting vehicles of the type MAN / Ziegler Z8 (FLF 60 / 120-15) with a capacity of 12,000 liters of water and 1500 liters of foam concentrate AFFF , an HLF 24/40 with 500 liters of foam concentrate and a 500 kg powder extinguishing system on Mercedes -Benz chassis. A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter ambulance, a MAN emergency stair vehicle and a Caterpillar telescopic loader are also available. These are housed in the same buildings as at the time of the air base. The airport is in fire fighting category 7 (aircraft with a wingspan of up to 49 meters up to 61 meters and a fuselage width of max. 5 meters) and can be upgraded to category 9 (up to 76 meters) on request.

Incidents

• On September 23, 2012, there was an incident with a Ryanair aircraft coming from Manchester with a total of 141 passengers on board, which the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation classified as a serious incident . In order to save time, the pilots of the Boeing 737 aircraft decided to make a visual approach to runway 24. The minimum safety height of 1000  feet was clearly undercut. It was only when the ground proximity warning system issued the alarm “Terrain, Terrain, Pull Up” at 450 feet (about 137 meters) that the crew initiated a go-around maneuver about four nautical miles from the runway .

• On April 6, 2015 crossed glider the trajectory of a from Timişoara coming commercial aircraft of the airline Wizz Air with 145 passengers and six crew members on board. The Airbus A320-232 passenger aircraft approaching for landing and the Grob G 102 glider approached within a few hundred meters. The Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation classified this incident as a serious incident .

• On February 25, 2016 Plow lost on the runway a tire, thus approaching aircraft take off had. The responsible air traffic control organization The Tower Company reported the incident to the Federal Air Traffic Control Authority as another reportable event .

• On March 17th, 2019 there was an incident with a Ryanair plane coming from Faro (Portugal). There were 164 passengers on board the Boeing 737-800 with the flight number FR7481. A warning light triggered the alarm, whereupon the captain declared an air emergency. The plane was finally able to land safely and no passengers were injured. The passengers were able to get out regularly using the stairs and intervention by the rescue workers was never necessary.

• On January 24, 2020, an Airbus A321 of the Hungarian airline Wizz Air from Sofia with the flight number W64339 came off the taxiway while taxiing to the parking position. A bike got into a bend in unpaved ground. The aircraft had to be towed free by the airport fire brigade, which resulted in air traffic being impaired for 3 hours. All 216 passengers and the crew were uninjured.

Contaminated sites

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and perfluorinated surfactants (PFT)

Fire extinguishing exercises have taken place on the airport premises since the start of operations. The main fire material used was kerosene , and even small amounts of napalm . To extinguish the fire, was extinguishing foam used. PFT ( perfluorinated surfactants , subgroup of PFCs - perfluorinated hydrocarbons) was added to this from the beginning of the 1960s until 2001 . The products used were v. a. to “Light water FC-203” from 3M, which contained both perfluorinated carboxylates and perfluorinated sulfonates. Until 1977 fire extinguishing exercises were carried out in an unpaved floor pan. The kerosene and the extinguishing foam could seep into the subsoil unhindered. In 1977 a fire extinguisher was built at this point, which was connected to the partially ailing sewer system of the airfield. However, due to leaks in the joints in the concrete, pollutants could still penetrate the subsoil, albeit to a lesser extent. In the military geological report from 2003, the subsurface of the fire extinguishing basin was examined for PAK, MKW, BTEX, LHKW and relevant heavy metals. Relatively high lead and mineral oil hydrocarbons were found. “No other parameters were determined here.” The expert came to the conclusion that the apparently contaminated material had to be removed and properly disposed of.

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)

In 2007, the fire extinguishing basin and the surrounding earth wall were dismantled in order to create a parking lot for short-term parkers (now P1). During the dismantling, olive-colored discoloration and a mineral oil smell were found. During the subsequent sampling of the excavated material, a PAH concentration of 2,941 µg / kg was found. Benzo (a) anthracene with 710 µg / kg and phenanthrene with 630 µg / kg represented the largest PAH positions. In addition, 397 µg / kg nuclear power plants, 120 µg / kg BTEX, 24 mg / kg lead and 9.0 mg / kg of arsenic and other metals were found. 791.43 t of the contaminated material (installation class Z2) were disposed of in the Berkheim / Eichenberg landfill . The excavated material, classified as Z1.2, was used on a plot of land owned by the BImA at the time for a noise protection wall as a demarcation to the AMC training area directly on the premises of Allgäu Airport.

Perfluorinated surfactants (PFT) / perfluorinated hydrocarbons (PFC)

An expert calculation as part of the preliminary investigation has shown that approx. 5.3 t of PFCs were released during fire-fighting exercises in the period from 1965 to 2000. The expert assumes that 90% of the PFCs were initially discharged through the ailing sewer system. He makes no statement about the further whereabouts of these 90%. The remaining 10% of the PFCs, approx. 525 kg, initially remained underground. According to the appraiser's estimate, another 90% of this was removed from the subsoil during the renovation and dismantling of the fire extinguishing basin. These are located in the Eichenberg landfill and in the southern area, where the Z1.2 material was reused. The expert assumes that the potential for pollutants is around 52.5 kg of PFC in the underground of the former fire extinguishing basin. If these PFCs remain in the soil, an emission duration of approx. 220 years with an annual emission of 240 g can be expected. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that next to the former fire extinguishing basin an infiltration basin for the rainwater from the parking lots was built. In the preliminary investigation, the expert made no statement about the emission of the PFC-contaminated material, originally classified as Z1.2, which was installed in the southern area, since he had no knowledge of the relocation of the PFT-contaminated material within the airport site. However, the Unterallgäu district office issued the stipulation that construction work on the airport site in connection with the removal of rainwater may only be carried out if it can be proven that the damage caused by PFT and the planned construction work do not mutually influence each other. This is necessary because at the discharge point for surface water from the former air base in the Schmiedbach on May 19, 2015 10.0 ng PFT per liter of water and at the Schmiedbach bridge 33.0 ng PFT (of which 16.0 ng perfluorooctanesulfonic acid , 11, 0 ng perfluronanoic acid and 4.6 ng perfluorohexanesulfonic acid) per liter of water were measured. "However, the public sector currently sees no need for action, as the values ​​are still below the threshold values."

When groundwater samples were taken in September 2013, the Kempten Water Management Office found perfluorinated and polyfluorinated surfactants (PFT) in the groundwater below Allgäu Airport. PFT are considered carcinogenic. The threshold value according to the LfU guidelines is 0.3 µg per liter of water. However, on February 16, 2015, groundwater measuring point 5 measured 7.6 µg PFT per liter of water. 4 other measuring points also showed PFT values ​​above the threshold value. These PFT emissions can endanger the drinking water supply of the community of Ungerhausen , as the groundwater flow leads in the direction of the well of the community adjacent to the airfield. It is now clear that the municipality of Ungerhausen will have to give up its own water supply, as up to 200 ng PFT was measured in the various measuring levels. Ungerhausen is now striving for a connection to the Woringer Group's water supply. According to Mayor Josef Fickler, the PFT value could rise very quickly if, after the very dry 2018, the pollutant was increasingly washed into the groundwater due to heavy rainfall.

Before the citizens' and council requests, which took place on November 22, 2015, u. a. The Lord Mayor of Memmingen Ivo Holzinger and the Unterallgäu District Administrator Hans-Joachim Weirather claimed the following: "The BImA has promised to the District Office Unterallgäu that it will cover costs that arise in connection with the PFT problem on the conversion site." On December 4th, 2015 However, the Ministry of Finance made it clear: “The contracts contain a comprehensive and general exclusion of liability from the Federal Agency [for real estate tasks] for material defects. In addition, they contain an exclusion of the assumption of costs that are necessary to remove harmful soil changes / contaminated sites and any building pollutants. "

In response to the request from three MPs, the responsible state ministry informed the inquirers on December 16, 2015 (published on March 2, 2016) that soil samples had been taken in the area of ​​the former fire extinguishing basin. The measurement results are not yet available. Soil samples from the southern rainwater retention basin and from the discharges into the Schmittenbach have not yet been carried out. Likewise, no soil samples have yet been taken in the area of ​​the former conversion site. The polluted soil, which came from the dismantling of the former fire extinguishing basin and was used to build a noise protection wall, has not yet been examined. According to the ministry's response, further suspicions for PFT / PFOS entries in the southern area are the use of extinguishing foams in exercises and operations as well as further relocation or installation of contaminated soil.

In 2018, two additional groundwater measuring points were set up by an expert's office to investigate the groundwater outflow in the area of ​​the former fire extinguishing training basin. In all samples, levels were determined below the respective threshold values ​​according to the PFC guideline or the sum parameters described there. These come to the conclusion that at this point in time there is no endangerment of the further groundwater outflow from the pollution at the former fire extinguishing training basin.

Criticism of the airport

As early as 2000, when the plans to withdraw the German armed forces became known, the stop the aircraft noise action group was formed , no airfield Memmingerberg as an amalgamation of the airport opponents. In April 2002 it was transformed into a non-profit association with the aim of preventing the area from being used for flying purposes after the armed forces had withdrawn and protecting citizens from aircraft noise. In 2009 the name was changed to Citizens Against Aircraft Noise . According to the statutes, the purpose of the association is to resist airport expansion measures at Allgäu Airport, to provide active support in the event of aircraft noise complaints, to monitor compliance with laws and regulations by the operator, to resist state and municipal subsidies, to educate people about environmental pollution caused by air traffic and to provide additional information on media coverage. In November 2002 in Memmingen, for example, a rally was organized on Theaterplatz against the civil aviation subsequent use of the air base with 3500 participants. Another demonstration followed in March 2004 with 4,000 participants in Memmingen.

During the two-week period in August 2011, 964 objections were submitted to the Southern Bavaria Aviation Office against the 2011 plan approval procedure . In addition to private individuals, the Association of Citizens Against Aircraft Noise, the Verkehrsclub Deutschland and the Bund Naturschutz have raised objections to the expansion project and, in extensive statements, have clearly spoken out against the expansion of operating times and the expansion of capacity at Allgäu Airport.

Hearings as part of the planning approval procedure took place on January 10 and 11, 2012 at the instigation of the licensing authority. The need for the expansion of the infrastructure at the airfield and the reasons for longer operating times of the airfield were controversially discussed. The Bund Naturschutz renewed the objections regarding climate protection and the Verkehrsclub Deutschland warned of the financial risks. The Association of Citizens Against Aircraft Noise rejects the expansion on the grounds that the permit is economically and ecologically unacceptable, and has demanded adequate protection against aircraft noise. After the approval of the planning approval decision was announced, the associations renewed the criticism. Several citizens, the Bund Naturschutz and the municipality of Westerheim then agreed to file a lawsuit against the approval. The municipality of Memmingerberg decided to also file a lawsuit, but only against the extension of the flight times and not against the entire planning approval decision. The trial against the expansion of the airport and the extension of flight times took place on four days in June and July 2015 before the Administrative Court in Munich . According to a report commissioned by Allgäu Airport and available to the court, instead of the previous average of 80 night flights, 2000 scheduled flights plus ambulance and special flights will take place at night in the future. The court dismissed all lawsuits on July 14, 2015 and an appeal against the judgment was not permitted.

A study by the Zeppelin University of Friedrichshafen comes to the conclusion that these “cannibalization effects from Memmingen Airport” threaten the very existence of Friedrichshafen Airport.

Sportfluggruppe Memmingen

The forerunner of the Sportfluggruppe Memmingen was founded in 1936. However, with the outbreak of World War II, the group quickly came to an end. In 1950 the association was re-established. Mainly glider pilots flew back then. The association also helped to bring the runway back into a condition that could be used to a limited extent. In the following years, the inventory such as towing vehicles, winches and more was steadily expanded. The population also showed a great interest in flying, as evidenced by various aircraft christenings on the market square or Hallhof in Memmingen. The takeover of the Bundeswehr in 1955 and the resumption of flight operations did not affect the sport flying group. Many military pilots were also involved in the association. At the same time, the Memmingerberg sport flying group, which emerged from the Bundeswehr sport flying group , developed in the mid-1960s . In addition to gliding, this also operated powered flight. In 1995 the two groups merged and renamed Sportfluggruppe Memmingen e. V.

See also

• List of commercial airports in Germany
• Nuclear weapons in Germany

Web links

Commons : Memmingen Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
• Official website of Memmingen Airport
• Official website of the association “BÜRGER GEGEN FLUGLÄRM e. V. "

Individual evidence

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92. ↑ Neu-Ulm district: 2012 annual financial statements , page 25
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155. ↑ Lizard habitat in the course of expansion. Retrieved March 20, 2019 . 
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157. ↑ Münchner Abendzeitung: Kleiner Falke ensures the safety of large aircraft , accessed on October 11, 2012.
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169. ↑ European Commission: Specific information on the customs office
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171. ↑ ICAO fire fighting category. Retrieved November 29, 2012 . 
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184. ↑ landratsamt-unterallgaeu.de opinion of the district council on the question of the district council request (PDF)
185. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk (br.de): The federal government pays for the removal of contaminated sites ( Memento from August 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
186. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk (br.de); Broadcast Quer from October 8, 2015: Burned tax money? Millions for Allgäu Airport ( Memento from October 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
187. ↑ Jens Spahn , Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance, December 4, 2015, in response to written question No. 218 for November 2015 by the member of the Bundestag Ekin Deligöz ekin-deligoez.de
188. ↑ German Bundestag printed matter 18/6997 of December 11, 2015 Written questions with the answers from the federal government received in the week of December 7, 2015 , p. 44, accessed on February 14, 2016
189. ↑ Guidelines for the Preliminary Assessment of PFC Contamination in Water and Soil. Accessed April 2017 . 
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195. ↑ Verkehrsclub Deutschland: Objections Memmingen (PDF file; 55 kB), accessed on October 11, 2012.
196. ↑ Bund Naturschutz: Press release "Planning approval procedure for the expansion of the Allgäu Airport. Retrieved on February 18, 2019 . 
197. ↑ Bund Naturschutz: Klimakiller Allgäu Airport plans expansion , accessed on October 11, 2012.
198. ↑ Verkehrsclub Deutschland: Expansion of Memmingen Airport is a step in the wrong direction , January 9, 2012.
199. ↑ all-in.de: Objections to the expansion of Allgäu Airport are explained  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 10, 2012.  
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