Press Release

Issued by Flughafen Muenchen GmbH.

September 6, 2007

Munich Airport CEO, Dr. Michael Kerkloh, has successfully defended the title he earned last year as "Airport Manager of the Year." The award, conferred by the renowned aviation journal, Touristik Report, and the Munich daily newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, was handed over to the head of the Munich Airport operating company, Flughafen München GmbH (FMG), at a ceremony yesterday in Frankfurt with top representatives of the tourism industry in attendance. The vote was conducted by a 37-member jury recruited from a pool of airport executives and other industry experts.

Kerkloh owes his successful reelection not only to the support of his colleagues in the executive suites of German airports, who picked him as the unchallenged number one in their midst. The Munich Airport CEO won by an even wider margin in the voting by aviation journalists and industry experts. In the runner-up positions behind Kerkloh were Michael Eggenschwiler (Hamburg Airport), Christoph Blume (Düsseldorf Airport), Wilhelm Bender (Fraport) and Rainer Schwarz (Berlin Airport).

Only a few weeks have passed since the announcement that Munich Airport was voted Europe's best airport for the third year in a row in a worldwide passenger survey conducted by the London-based Skytrax Institute. In his acceptance speech yesterday, Kerkloh stressed that Munich Airport's ongoing success is an "overall effort" involving contributions from "the entire airport family."

Michael Kerkloh has been at the helm of FMG since September 2002. He is FMG's president and CEO, and also serves as the company's labor director.

In addition to the best airport manager, four other awards were handed out in Offenbach to managers in various areas of the travel industry and the award for tourism manager of the year, which went this year to Joachim Hunold, the head of the airline Air Berlin.