Capacity bottlenecks, in the airport that was only opened in 1992, were relegated to the past - for the time being at least - when the new Terminal 2 became operational in June 2003. The consortium project of Flughafen München GmbH and Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which doubles the passenger capacity with one fell swoop, is located to the east of the existing passenger area and is directly connected to the "Munich Airport Center" (MAC). In contrast to the existing Terminal 1, the new terminal does not feature a modular construction but instead consists of a central hall and a pier of about a kilometre with 114 gates.