Milano Malpensa Airport "City of Milan" (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC), former "Aeroporto Città di Busto Arsizio" [2] is Milan's largest airport. It is located 21.58 NM (39.97 km; 24.83 mi) northwest[1] of central Milan, Italy. It is one of 3 airports in the Milan metropolitan area. The airport is connected to Milan by the Milano-Varese highway as well as by the "Malpensa Express" train starting from the Milan Cadorna railway station (LeNord regional railways) and taking about 41 minutes. It is also connected to Linate Airport by a scheduled bus service and by Milan's local transportation. The Milan airport system has a third international airport, Orio al Serio Airport, which serves low-cost traffic. Malpensa handled over 23.8 million passengers in 2007 (over 33 million with Linate, the second airport of Milan, closer to downtown and over 39 million with Orio al Serio Airport, Milan's low-cost airport). As of early 2008, Malpensa remains the top Italian airport in terms of international traffic, together with Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport in terms of total passengers. As far as hub transit passengers are concerned it is also the second airport in Italy after Rome, according to ASSAEROPORTI traffic data. It is also the leading air freight gateway to Italy. Malpensa serves a population of over 15 million inhabitants. easyJet has a dedicated Terminal (T2) and Malpensa is that company's biggest base outside the UK. In 2008 Lufthansa announced plans to create its first hub outside Germany, and its fourth European hub.[3] In October 2008 Lufthansa set up its Italian division, Lufthansa Italia. SEA and Lufthansa have a memorandum of understanding for future development and improvement of current facilities. In July 2009 Lufthansa announced that has requested 10 additional daily slots at Malpensa.[4] Malpensa has two terminals, T1 for commercial traffic and T2 for charter and low-fare traffic. The T1 has two satellites: A - National and European traffic (Schengen area); B - International traffic (extra Schengen area). The third satellite (C) is under construction and a third runway has been announced, with completion set for 2012.[5] There is also a dedicated cargo terminal called "CargoCity", which currently handles over 410,000 tons of yearly traffic. [edit] Transport links - Malpensa Airport is linked to Milan Cadorna Station (connection with Milan's subway's Line M2 (Green) and Line M1 (Red), and the Suburban and the Regional Railway Service) by the Malpensa Express, with intermediate stops at Busto Arsizio FNM, Saronno Centrale (connection with regional trains bound for Varese and Como) and Milano Bovisa (connection with the Passante track of the suburban railways). Trains depart from Terminal 1 every 30 minutes and the journey lasts 40 minutes (non-stop services running early in the morning and late at night take 34 minutes), it costs 11 euros as of 2009.
- From late 2009 there will be a shuttle connection between Malpensa Airport railway station and Busto Arsizio FS [6]. From here there are connections with Milan's railway stations of Milano Centrale and Milano Porta Garibaldi. The price for the track between Busto Arsizio and the city of Milan is € 3,05. The price from Malpensa Airport to Busto Arsizio has not been announced as of July 2009.
- The Malpensa-Varese-Mendrisio (CH)-Lugano (CH) line is being built and will be finished by 2012. There are future plans also to connect Gallarate Station (FS) and Milan's Centrale Station (FS) allowing for easy connections onto high-speed international lines.
Malpensa Shuttle and Malpensa Bus Express connect the airport to Milan Central Station (Trenitalia's National Railway hub) and the Subway. Stops at the Milan Fair are provided on request. Travel time is about an hour (longer during heavy traffic). A free shuttle bus links Terminal 1 & 2 every 20 minutes 24 hours a day, within the airport. Malpensa is also connected to Linate Airport and to various Northern cities in Italy and Switzerland by buses. Taxis are available at the Arrivals of Terminal 1 & 2. Taxi fares to Milan tend to be quite expensive, generally exceeding €80. [edit] Automobile connections Malpensa Airport is connected by a four-lane highway to the A8 motorway (connecting Switzerland to Milan) and by a four-lane highway to the A4 motorway linking Milan to Turin and to the Strada Statale 11. [edit] Ground handling Ground handling services have been slowly deregulated and have seen SEA (the airport authority) create SEA Handling and the arrival of private handler ATA Handling. ATA Handling provides all services apart from bus transport to/from aircraft (originally subcontracted to SEA Handling, now subcontracted to Air Pullman) and disabled assistance. Up to 2001 all ground handling services were provided by SEA and TWA. In the first few years of deregulation some airlines put their own staff for customer assistance but Air One and British Airways realised that it was too expensive and so dismissed them. United Airlines stopped flying to Malpensa. To date the only airline with its own check-in staff remains KLM. Passenger handling is provided by SEA Handling, ATA Handling, Aviapartner, Globeground Italia and ICTS Italia. Ramp services are provided by SEA Handling, ATA and recently Aviapartner. SEA Handling provides 80% of ramp services mostly thanks to its major customer Alitalia. In May 2006, Italy's Civil Aviation Authority took off the limitation of two ramp handlers. Aviapartner and ARE Group announced that they would create a new company called Aviapartner (owned 51% by Aviapartner and 49% ARE Group) to serve Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino. There are fears that luggage mishandling will go up. Aviapartner has started operating serving Iberia flights and signing more contracts as time has gone on. However, SEA Handling maintains a dominant position and is reorganising itself to be more competitive by going from a monopolistic mentality to free market one. [edit] Security services Airport security services were transferred in 2000 from the Polizia di Stato (State Police) to SEA which created an internal division called SEA Airport Security. Up to 2002 SEA was assisted by IVRI in providing security services but the contract was not renewed. SEA Airport Security is supervised by Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Military Customs Police) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority). Carabinieri supervise ramp entrance. Furthermore some airlines rely on private security companies (such as ICTS Italia, SEA Airport Security, Gruppo Sicurezza etc) to provide ID check and airplane guarding. [edit] Airlines and destinations [edit] Terminal 1-A / Schengen Destinations | Airlines | Destinations | | Aegean Airlines | Athens, Heraklion, Thessaloniki | | AirBaltic | Riga | | Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg | | Air Alps | Perugia | | Air Dolomiti | Perugia, Salerno | | Air Europa | Madrid | | Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | | Air France operated by Airlinair | Lyon | | Air France operated by Régional | Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse | | Air Italy | Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Lampedusa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lourdes, Minorca, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Skiathos, Tenerife-South | | Air Malta | Malta | | Air One | Rome-Fiumicino | | Alitalia | Bari, Catania | | Alitalia operated by Air One | Bari | | Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | | Blue1 | Helsinki | | Blue Panorama Airlines | Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lourdes, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Samos, Santorini | | Brussels Airlines | Brussels | | City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter [begins 15 April][7] | | Czech Airlines | Prague | | Elbafly | Elba [seasonal] | | Estonian Air | Tallinn | | Europe Airpost | Lourdes | | Finnair | Helsinki, Rovaniemi [seasonal] | | Flybaboo | Geneva, Marseilles | | Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn | | Iberia | Madrid | | Icelandair | Reykjavik-Keflavik [seasonal] | | Itali Airlines | Lampedusa, Lourdes | | KLM | Amsterdam | | Livingston Energy Flight | Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lourdes, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini | | LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw | | Lufthansa | Barcelona, Bari, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Munich, Naples, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino | | Lufthansa operated by bmi | London-Heathrow | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti | Munich | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air | Stuttgart | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart | | Luxair | Luxembourg | | Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | | Meridiana operated by Eurofly | Fuerteventura, Tenerife-South | | Mistral Air | Pantelleria | | Neos | Amsterdam, Brindisi, Chania, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Lourdes, Madrid, Malaga, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Porto Santo, Rhodes, Satorini, Seville, Skiathos, Tenerife-South | | Niki | Vienna | | Olympic Air | Athens | | Scandinavian Airlines System | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen | | Spanair | Alicante, Barcelona, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca [all seasonal] | | Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | | Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich | | TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto | | Twin Jet | Marseilles | | Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Valencia | [edit] Terminal 1-B / non-Schengen Destinations | Airlines | Destinations | | Aer Lingus | Dublin [seasonal] | | Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | | Air Algérie | Algiers | | Air China | Shanghai-Pudong | | Air Italy | Al-Minhad, Antananarivo, Aruba, Asmara, Cartagena [begins December], Colombo, Dubai, Fortaleza, Khartoum, Marsa Alam, Natal, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Sal, Salvador da Bahia, Santiago de Cuba, Zanzibar | | Air Mauritius | Mauritius | | Air Moldova | Chişinǎu | | Air Seychelles | Mahé | | Alitalia | Cairo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, St Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita | | Alitalia operated by Air One | Algiers, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Borypsil, Sofia, Tirana, Tripoli, Tunis | | Albanian Airlines | Tirana | | AMC Airlines | Sharm el-Sheikh | | American Airlines | New York-JFK | | Arkia Israel Airlines | Tel Aviv | | Atlas Blue | Marrakech | | Atlasjet | Antalya | | Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku | | Belavia | Minsk | | Belle Air | Tirana | | Blue Panorama Airlines | Aruba, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cairo, Camaguey, Cancún, Cartagena, Casablanca, Cayo Largo, Freeport, Gan Island, Havana, Holguin, La Romana, Larnaca, Le Ceiba, Luxor, Maceio, Malé, Marrakech, Montego Bay, Nassau, Natal, Nosy Be, Panama City, Puerto Plata [begins 22 december] Phuket, Punta Cana, Recife, Roatan, Salvador da Bahia, Santa Clara, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tabarka, Varadero, Zanzibar | | British Airways | London-Heathrow | | Continental Airlines | Newark | | Corendon Airlines | Antalya | | Cyprus Airways | Larnaca, Rome-Fiumicino | | Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, New York-JFK | | EgyptAir | Cairo, Luxor, Sharm el-Sheikh | | El Al | Tel Aviv | | Emirates | Dubai | | Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | | Eurofly | Agadir, Al Alamain-Dabaa, Antalya, Barbados, Bodrum, Cairo, Cancún, Colombo, Cork, Hurghada, Luxor, Mahé, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Mostar, Mykonos [seasonal], Punta Cana, Santorini [seasonal], Shannon, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar | | Flybe | Birmingham, Manchester | | Freebird Airlines | Antalya, Istanbul | | Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | | Japan Airlines | Tokyo-Narita | | Jat Airways | Belgrade | | Jet4you | Casablanca | | Karthago | Djerba, Monastir | | Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | | Libyan Airlines | Tripoli | | Livingston Energy Flight | Antigua, Banjul, Barbados, Boa Vista, Cancún, Cartagena, Cayo Largo, Colombo, Dakar, Djerba, Donetsk, Dubai, Fortaleza, Havana, Holguin, Hurghada, La Romana, Larnaca, Luxor, Maceio, Malé, Marka, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Natal, Panama City, Phnom-Penh, Phuket, Porto Santo, Porto Seguro, Punta Cana, Recife, Sal, Salvador da Bahia, San Salvador, Sharm el-Sheikh, St Lucia, Tenerife-South, Varadero, Zanzibar | | Lufthansa | Bucharest-Henri Coandă | | Middle East Airlines | Beirut | | Mistral Air | Hurgada, Tel Aviv | | Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica | | Neos | Agadir, Amman, Antalya, Antigua, Aqaba, Banjul, Boa Vista, Cairo, Cancún, Cap Skirring, Djerba, Dubai, Havana, Holguin, Hurghada, La Romana, Larnaca, Mahé, Malaga, Malé, Marka, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Merida, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Punta Cana, Ras al Khaimah, Recife, Sal, Salvador da Bahia, Samana, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar | | Nouvelair | Djerba, Monastir | | Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad, Lahore | | Qatar Airways | Doha | | Rossiya | St Petersburg | | Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca | | Royal Jordanian | Amman | | Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh | | Singapore Airlines | Singapore1 | | SriLankan Airlines | Colombo [resumes 16 December] | | Star1 Airlines | Vilnius | | SunExpress | Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir | | Syrian Air | Aleppo, Damascus | | TAM Airlines | São Paulo-Guarulhos | | Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | | Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Tozeur, Tunis | | Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | | Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil, L'viv | | Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 1: Singapore Airlines flights continue to/from Barcelona, but Singapore Airlines has no right to transport passengers between Milan-Malpensa and Barcelona. [edit] Terminal 1-C Terminal 1-C is under construction [edit] Terminal 2 | Airlines | Destinations | | easyJet | Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brindisi, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech, Mykonos, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda | | Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen [begins 29 March] | [edit] Cargo airlines | Airlines | Destinations | | Air Atlanta Icelandic | | | Air China Cargo | Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong, Vienna | | Asiana Cargo | London-Stansted, Seoul-Incheon | | Atlas Air | Lima, S.Maria Azzorre | | AirBridgeCargo Airlines | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Maastricht, Moscow-Sheremetyevo | | CAL Cargo Air Lines | Liège, Tel Aviv | | Cargoitalia | Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Hong Kong, New York-JFK, Toronto-Pearson | | Cargolux | Luxemburg, New York-JFK | | Cargolux (Italia) | Baku, Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luxemburg, Osaka-Kansai | | Cathay Pacific | Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London-Heathrow, Manchester | | China Airlines | Dubai, Manchester, Taipei-Taoyuan | | China Cargo Airlines | Amsterdam, Shanghai-Pudong, Urumqi | | Cygnus Air | Madrid | | DHL Aviation | London-Heathrow, London-Luton, London-Stansted | | Emirates SkyCargo | Dubai | | Etihad Crystal Cargo | Abu Dhabi, Tripoli | | European Air Transport | London-Heathrow | | FedEx Express | Ancona, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Memphis, Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Venice-Marco Polo | | Great Wall Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong [begins January 2010] | | Kalitta Air | | | Korean Air | Navoiy, Seoul-Incheon | | Lufthansa Cargo | Detroit, Frankfurt, Shannon | | MNG Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle | | Nippon Cargo Airlines | Amsterdam, Nagoya-Centrair, Tokyo-Narita | | Polar Air Cargo | | | Polet Airlines | Khartoum | | Qatar Airways | Doha | | Saudi Arabian Airlines | Brussels, Jeddah, Riyadh | | Southern Air | Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK | | TAROM Cargo | Bucharest-Henri Coandă | | West Air Sweden | | | World Airways | Baltimore, Chicago-O'Hare, Mexico City, New York-JFK | [edit] References [edit] External links
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