With flights taking off virtually every minute, there's a mad rush to the nearly 70 gates of the Franz Josef Strauss International Airport here.
Forty years ago, there was a more confused rush when Munich hosted the 1972 Olympics after Palestinian terrorists shot dead 11 Israeli athletes and coaches after a hostage drama at the Games Village.
It was the darkest day in the history of sport.
Spitz's secret exit
Even American swimmer Mark Spitz, the hero of those Games with seven golds which were all won in world record times, had to flee Munich under the cover of darkness after his last swim.
Being a Jew, he was also at risk and his trip home was arranged very secretly with armed guards accompanying him.
It's been 40 years since that dreadful day and now the International Olympic Committee is under pressure from many parts of the world for an official moment of remembrance, a minute's silence, at the London Olympics which begins on July 27. London will be the 10th Olympics after the Munich massacre.
IOC rejects proposal
But the IOC has rejected the proposal. It's clear that the London Games organisers and the IOC fear that some Arab countries may walk out of the Olympics if they allow it and do not want the Games to be politicised.
So what do the Germans think about the issue? And what about the Munichers?
Matuszis Marcel, from Munich and a pilot with Lufthansa, feels that London should remember the athletes killed with a moment of silence.
“I was there and I remember how terrible it was,” said Marcel at the Munich airport. “What does it take to have a minute for these athletes in London. They should have it.”
Paul Sinclair, from London who is now virtually a Municher after having stayed here for the last two decades, is also of the same opinion.
Pay your respects
“I grew up in Munich and I think they must remember them at the Games, yes definitely, to pay your respects,” said Paul, a young man in his mid-twenties who is in the automotive industry.
Jozef, a 52-year-old robotics programmer from Germany and now working on a project in Pune, feels that despite a stress on security, no Games are safe from terrorism.
“London is packed with cops everywhere but I think no Olympics will be safe if there are mad men around.”
The 'Happy Games'... that was the official motto of the 1972 Munich Games. What a sad one it turned out to be!
