1 hour to connect in Munich--will I have enough time?

Yes, I would think so. Munich Airport has a good layout and isn't all that big. Of course if your flight is late that is a different story, but if its on time, you should have plenty of time. :) Have a fun trip!

No sweat, Munich's an easy one.
Even if your flight's late, Lufthansa makes that run a zillion times a day so they'd stick you on another one.

Maybe someone is more familiar with connecting in Munich. I've flown in and out many times but never connected. I don't think you will go through customs in Munich, but you will go through Immigration, because you are entering Schengen there. International (outside Schengen) flights come into one level in Terminal 2, domestic (inside Schengen) flights use another level (below international?) Immigration is in the middle of the International level. After going through Immigration, you should just go to the other level. If you go down to customs, you will leave the secure area and have to come back through security.

The bad news, United uses the farthest gates from Immigration, at the very end of the concourse (Immigration is in the middle).

If your flight is on time, yes.

Thanks All! That makes me feel much better! Could you remind me of what the drill is upon entering the EU? We go through Immigration in Munich but then do we go through again when we get to Athens? Is there a separate Customs step? This is only our 2nd time overseas and I don't quite remember the steps. Thanks!

People with checked-through bags don't get them until Athens, where they go through customs. I imagine you can do the same. In Munich, the baggage claim and customs is on the ground floor, and, as I remember, the only way out is to leave the secure area. Ask at immigration how you go directly to the Schengen country gate without leaving security.

In fifteen years I've arrived in Germany ten times (Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart) and customs has always been a formality. One lane was labeled "nothing to declare", and I went directly out without being checked.

This is an interesting question for me as I am forever amazed that airlines will book connecting flights with so little time between them, thus forcing passengers to miss flights. It happened to me on a trip from Rome-Newark-Houston-LA.... all on United. An hour connection time might be OK "IF" the flight departed on time and arrived on time. With the first flight departing 20 minutes late it spiraled so that it took too long to get through customs and made me miss all remaining scheduled flights. It was a nightmare.

I fly frequently to Germany. Is Munich airport itself designed better for connections? Or is it the location of a airline terminal? Or the flight itinerary? I am just remembering several trips running through the terminals to the next connection. As a result, I laugh at the UA reservations operator when he tells me I should have enough time to make my connectiont; I prefer to book with at least 1 1/2 hours between flights just in case.

This Monday I easily made a 45 minutes connection from a Lufthansa to another Star Alliance flight within Munich's Terminal 2 - any yesterday even though there were only 40 minutes between the two flights and the incoming flight was on a small plane with tarmac parking position and bussing to the terminal building I was at my departure gate in about 20 minutes.

@Andreas,

Did you arrive at Munich on a trans-Atlantic flight and have to go through Schengen immigration?

If you do go through immigration, can you go from there directly to an "in-Schengen" departure gate on the other level without going through security, or does immigration take you out of security and you have to come back through again?

In Munich T2 the non-Schengen level is exactly above the Schengen floor. If your flight starts at Munich's T2 first you go through secruity (which everybody does) and then either you stay on that level for Schengen flights or go up one floor, go through passport control and are in the non-Schengen area.

So transfering from a non-Schengen to a Schengen flight vv. does NOT require you going through security again. That only is the case if you have to change from T2 to T1 vv.