mytaxi and Lufthansa Innovation Hub Launch Taxi-Sharing Service from Munich Airport to City Center

Taking a taxi from Munich Airport into the city center will now be much more cost-effective since mytaxi and Lufthansa now offer all passengers a new taxi-sharing service. With mytaximatch, travelers can share a taxi into Munich’s city center with savings of up to 50 percent. Depending on the route and the traffic, the trip would normally cost upwards of EUR 90. The departure point for joint mytaximatch tours is the taxi rank (P31) at Terminal 2 at Munich Airport.

Land, book a taxi, travel together and share the price of a journey

With the new service at Munich Airport, Lufthansa and mytaxi are offering all passengers an integrated mobility solution that makes the last mile of the journey easier and, above all, cheaper. Initially, the new service will be bookable for a three-month test phase. Booking is done with the touch of a finger on the mytaxi app. Before embarking on their journey, customers can choose the “match option" and enter their destination address. mytaximatch then links up two passengers who have similar destinations and makes it possible for them to travel together. Each passenger may only have a maximum of two pieces of baggage so that the taxi ride isn´t too tight. At the end of each person’s route, the app calculates their individual price. The cost will never exceed EUR 49, even if no suitable ride-share has been found. And even in the case of finding "no match", passengers still benefit from the price guarantee.

Partnership between two drivers of innovation

The collaboration was initiated by mytaxi and the Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH), the central digitalization unit of the Lufthansa Group. Gleb Tritus, managing director of the Lufthansa Innovation Hub, explained, "Our goal is to extend the first-class experience that we offer travelers on Lufthansa flights along the entire travel chain. This also means creating a digital and seamless connection to the diverse range of mobility options available on the ground. mytaximatch is proving to be an innovative addition to Munich Airport's mobility portfolio. The new service appeals in particular to those passengers who would probably otherwise not have decided to take a taxi."

Johannes Mewes, chief product officer at mytaxi, also sees the partnership with Lufthansa as an important and appropriate step: "This pilot project with Lufthansa represents a perfect match for mytaxi and the course of innovation that we are pursuing. Our new service at Munich Airport brings passengers to their destinations in a cost-effective, safe and more environmentally-friendly way. In the process, we will not be putting any new vehicles on the road but rather utilizing available capacity in a way that makes sense, using the shuttle principle."

Alexander Mönch, mytaxi general manager for Germany and Austria, adds, "With a product like mytaxi, we are offering our customers real added value. The taxi journey from the airport into the center of Munich will be more reasonably priced, allowing customers to plan in a better way, with a price guarantee and the usual mytaxi quality of service. We are convinced that mytaximatch will prove to be a highly attractive option for many passengers.”

Mytaximatch just launched at Munich Airport in collaboration with Lufthansa. Lufthansa customers will receive all information they need concerning the new service exclusively via the Lufthansa app and will be redirected straight to the mytaxi service. During the three-month test phase, Miles & More will be giving users a credit of 150 Premium Miles per matched journey – an attractive additional offer for all users who are already collecting miles with mytaxi and Miles & More.

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