Munich Airport has published its winter schedule, and the most useful changes for premium travelers are on long-haul routes. The airport released the details on October 19. The season runs from October 25, 2026, to March 27, 2027, and covers 182 destinations in 67 countries.
More long-haul flights
Munich says three airlines are adding long-haul capacity this winter:
- Lufthansa goes from three to five flights a week each to Mexico City, Johannesburg and São Paulo.
- Singapore Airlines goes from seven to ten flights a week to Singapore.
- Thai Airways goes from seven to ten flights a week to Bangkok.
Bangkok gets an extra boost in the peak of the season. From January 16 to February 26, 2027, Lufthansa will add a second daily flight. Munich says that, with Thai, there will be up to four daily flights between the two cities on some weekdays.
The São Paulo change matters for travelers between Brazil and southern Germany. Five weekly flights means fewer days when you have to route through Frankfurt instead.
Lufthansa's new A350-1000
The airport also points to the first flight of Lufthansa's new Airbus A350-1000, which carries a special anniversary livery. Munich says it will fly first to Tokyo Haneda on December 3, then to Shanghai and Singapore in the weeks after. Nine more A350-1000s are due to be based in Munich over time. We covered the Haneda launch in more detail earlier this month.
Two new airlines, and more of the far north
Two airlines are new to Munich this winter. Cyprus Airways starts twice-weekly flights to Larnaca on December 17. Fly2Galicia will fly twice a week to Santiago de Compostela, though the airport did not give a start date.
The premium leisure airline beOnd is raising its Maldives service to four flights a week, with stops in Dubai or at the Red Sea Airport in Saudi Arabia.
Lapland and northern Norway are a theme of the season. Munich says Lufthansa goes from two to four weekly flights to Tromsø and from two to three to Kittilä from February 1, 2027. Lufthansa adds two weekly flights to Rovaniemi from December 4, and Discover Airlines will fly once a week to Ivalo from early January.
Several routes that started this summer will keep flying. Air Serbia stays daily to Belgrade, Bluebird keeps three weekly flights to Tel Aviv and Royal Jordanian keeps three weekly flights to Amman.
Where to wait in Munich
Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners, including Singapore Airlines and Thai, use Terminal 2 and its satellite. Long-haul flights to São Paulo, Mexico City, Bangkok or Singapore usually leave from the satellite's non-Schengen gates or from the H gates in the main building.
In the satellite, business class passengers and Star Alliance Gold members can use the Lufthansa Business Lounge, and Senators can use the Senator Lounge. First class passengers and HON Circle members get the First Class Lounge. In the main building, the Business Lounge H and Senator Lounge H serve the H gates.
If you rely on Priority Pass, the Airport Lounge World is the stronger of Munich's two independent lounges. It sits in the new Terminal 1 pier, and passengers leaving from Terminal 2 can take a shuttle bus there, so leave extra time. Priority Pass also lists shorter hours from October 26, with the lounge closing at 9:45 p.m.
What it means
None of these changes is huge on its own. Together, they show Munich continuing to grow as Lufthansa's premium long-haul hub, now with the A350-1000 based there. For travelers, the practical gains are more choice of days on Latin American and Southeast Asian routes, and new winter options into Lapland.
You can find every lounge at the airport on our Munich page, and see how they rank in our list of the best lounges in Munich Terminal 2.
