en.Wedoany.com Reported - Munich Airport still cannot be reached by long-distance trains. A review by Germany's Deutsche Bahn has shown that ICE (Intercity Express) trains cannot operate on the existing S-Bahn (city rapid transit) and regional train lines. A spokesperson for Deutsche Bahn stated that achieving a long-distance rail connection to the airport on the currently heavily saturated tracks is not feasible.

Deutsche Bahn now continues to pin its hopes on the construction of a new line, which has been under discussion for decades, allowing ICE trains to reach Germany's second-largest airport. The spokesperson stated that this is necessary to ensure a stable connection. DB Fernverkehr (Deutsche Bahn Long-Distance Transport) explicitly supports this plan, for example, in the context of expanding the Munich-Ingolstadt corridor.

Discussions about a long-distance rail connection to the airport have been ongoing for forty years without results. In the 1980s, the airport planned a long-distance train station and four runways, but ultimately only two runways and an S-Bahn connection were built. In the late 1980s, the decision was also made for the Munich-Nuremberg high-speed line, which opened in 2006, but no station was built at the airport.

The lack of a long-distance rail connection is particularly inconvenient for travelers arriving from Upper Bavaria north of Munich or Franconia by public transport: although the airport is located 30 kilometers northeast of the state capital Munich, they must either take a bus directly or first travel by train to Munich Central Station, then transfer to a bus or S-Bahn. The Münchner Merkur newspaper first reported on this matter.

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