Originally Posted by exbayern

MUC consistently receives honours as 'top airport in Europe' and one of the top in the world. But go back 18 years and it was a concrete bunker. I recall sitting in humid, sweaty terminal with an open ceiling above me and drips coming out from various pipes. (My earliest flight memory is 1972 at MUC during the Olympics, sitting on the tarmac, but we won't revisit that time...)

Amazing what was transformed from that to the current state. I have said before that I can easily spend several hours here - banking, shopping at the book store, having a gelato, using the post office, etc. This is what an airport should be, in my mind - somewhere where one can go to conduct business as well as fly...