Flights between Munich and the UK

Airlines flying Munich - UK

Discount Airlines

easyJet - fly from Munich to Stansted and have flights as low as €30 (one way). The Express train from Stansted [1] costs from €30 return and takes on average 46 minutes. Worse still, the "cheap" flights almost always land so late that you cannot get all the way home before the trains stop for the night (ie you get stuck somewhere in the middle of London).
Ryan Air
Air Berlin
Easyjet now fly direct to Edinburgh. Book well in advance as it's not particularly cheap if you don't! (less than Euro 150 if you book about 2 months in advance).

Direct Flights

Direct flights between Munich and the UK are offered by the following airlines:

British Airways - flies direct to London (Heathrow), Manchester
Lufthansa - flies direct to (London (Heathrow, City), Manchester, Birmingham)
Easyjet - Now fly direct to Edinburgh and Stansted.
Air Berlin - 2008 service started to Stansted and Manchester
Aer Lingus - Now fly direct to London (Gatwick).

Indirect Flights

Options for indirect flights between Munich and the UK involve change overs at:

Amsterdam (AMS) - with KLM
Paris (CDG) - with Air France
Brussels (BRU) - with SN (was Sabena)
Zurich - With Swiss

International Airports in the UK

London Heathrow (LHR) - south, direct with BA, Lufthansa
London Gatwick (LHR) - south, direct with BA, Lufthansa
Stanstead - south, direct with easyJet
Manchester - north, direct with BA, Lufthansa
Birmingham - midlands, direct with BA, Lufthansa
Liverpool - north
Newcastle - north, fly direct with HLX
Glasgow (GLA) - Scotland, no direct flights from Munich
Edinburgh (EDI) - Scotland, *NEW ROUTE* direct to EDI.

Airports near Munich

An alternative to flying directly to or from Munich might be to fly via a nearby airport and then take a connecting train or bus. Nearby airports are: Salzburg, Frankfurt, Nuremberg , Innsbruck, Friedrichshafen

Salzburg

1hr on the train, costs €25, Bayern Ticket and Schönes Wochenende are both valid on this trip. flybe.com do pretty cheap flights, but only between Salzburg and Southampton or Birmingham. Fares as low as as low as €40 one-way. ryanair.ie fly to Stansted from Salzburg too and sometimes it's only 10 Euros each way.

http://www.thomsonfly.com/en/index.html were offering a good service to Coventry but this service is not listed for summer 20008. Hopefully back on for winter 2008/2009.

Salzburg is an expanding airport and tends to have a lot more services in the winter for the skiing.

Frankfurt

2-4 hrs on the train from Munich. Ryanair flies from Frankfurt , which is nowhere near Frankfurt and involves a substantial expenditure of time and money to get there.

Nuremberg

A reasonable option to London is using Air Berlin which flies from Nuremberg

Online Flight Booking

The following websites are online travel agents. They offer booking of flights between Munich and the UK (as well as all other destinations, of course):

opodo.com / opodo.de
expedia.de / expedia.de
ebookers.com / ebookers.de
lastminute.com - They use most of the main airlines and can be quite cheap. more convenient for regional airports, like birmingham. Also they have that electronic ticket thing where you just turn up and show your passport, which is better than relying on the mail.
www.sta-travel.de

A good source to look for the cheapest options for direct flights is

http://www.skyscanner.net
Swoodoo.de a good option for findng the cheapest flights on offer, with direct links to the offering agents

A discussion on how to find the cheapest tickets can be found here