Munich Airport starts an Auracast pilot at six gates

Munich Airport is the second German airport to put gate announcements on Auracast. Sittig Technologies, the Frankfurt company behind Frankfurt Airport's trial earlier this year, switched the system on at Munich on 14 July 2026 and announced it two days later. Both Sittig and the German trade press describe it as a pilot.

Which gates

Six gates, split across both terminals:

• Terminal 1, Pier A: gates A42/A43 and A44/A45, in the newly opened extension of the pier.
• Terminal 2: gates G31 and G32. Terminal 2 is used by Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners.

That is three times the size of Frankfurt's two-gate trial, and it covers two quite different buildings rather than a single pair of neighbouring gates. Sittig says live airport announcements, gate announcements included, go out over the broadcast as well as the loudspeakers.

How passengers join

This is the main practical difference from Frankfurt. Sittig says QR codes are displayed at each of the six gates, and scanning one connects a smartphone to that gate's Auracast stream. According to Sittig:

• Android users can scan the code or pick the stream from the Bluetooth menu.
• iPhone users need a third-party app. Sittig does not name one.
• Compatible hearing aids, cochlear implants, earbuds and headphones can receive the broadcast directly.

On compatible Android phones, announcements fade in over whatever is already playing, such as music or a podcast, and fade out again when they finish. You do not have to stop listening to hear your gate call.

airliners.de adds that you can also search for nearby broadcasts with a scanner app, much as you would look for a Wi-Fi network. If you are not sure whether your phone can do any of this, our phone guide covers each platform, and our guide to joining a broadcast has the steps. Our Munich venue page has the current detail.

What is installed

Sittig's announcement does not say what hardware is at the Munich gates. It names only PAXGuide, its automated announcement software, and says the system needs no additional hardware at the gates. airliners.de reports that it is built into the existing announcement system, so gate staff need no new training.

Sittig's own Auracast product page describes the general approach: PAXGuide sends both automated and manual announcements to plug-in transmitters, which can sit in its PAXModular paging stations at each gate, as at Frankfurt.

Why it matters for hearing-aid users

Notebookcheck points out that telecoil systems are found only sporadically at German and Austrian airports, and that Frankfurt has none. For people with hearing aids or cochlear implants, a gate broadcast that reaches their own devices fills a real gap. Sittig also pitches it at everyone else: passengers wearing noise-cancelling earbuds in a loud terminal can keep them in and still hear their flight called.

What has not been announced

No end date, no evaluation plan and no results have been published. Munich Airport has not issued its own statement in anything we found; the announcement came from Sittig. Florian Halsner of Sittig said Munich was "the ideal partner to take Auracast to the next level in German aviation", and that the pilot builds on the company's experience at Frankfurt, where the trial has since been extended without a new end date.