Overview

• The Bavarian Administrative Court dismissed all challenges to the indefinite validity of the 2016 plan approval for the third runway
• Judges held that FMG’s infrastructure projects—including land purchases, the S-Bahn tunnel, road expansions and environmental compensation measures—constitute the start of plan execution
• As a result, the 2016 planfeststellungsbeschluss will not lapse in March 2026, preserving permanent building rights under German planning law
• Flughafen München GmbH reiterated that there are no immediate plans to construct the third runway under the current state-imposed moratorium
• Plaintiffs led by Bund Naturschutz are considering a complaint against the court’s refusal to admit a revision request to the Federal Administrative Court