Milan Malpensa Airport

Milan Malpensa Airport "City of Milan" Aeroporto di Milano-Malpensa "Città di Milano"
IATA: MXP ICAO: LIMC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SEA Aeroporti di Milano
Serves	Milan
Location	Somma Lombardo, Italy
Hub for	Air One CargoLux Italia
Focus city for	AlbaStar Alitalia Blue Panorama Airlines easyJet Livingston Meridiana Neos Air
Elevation AMSL	768 ft / 234 m
Website	www.milanomalpensa.eu
Map
MXP Location within Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17L/35R 3,920 12,861 Asphalt 17R/35L 3,920 12,861 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 18537301 Passenger change 11-12 -4.0% Aircraft movements 174892 Movements change 11-12 -8.4%
Source: ASSAEROPORTI Statistics from Assaeroporti

Milano Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC), also named City of Milan Airport, former City of Busto Arsizio Airport is the largest airport of Milan, northern Italy. The first industrial airport was opened in 1909 by Giovanni Agusta and Gianni Caproni to test their prototypes, near the Cascina Malpensa, an old farm. The civil flight airport was then opened in 1948, during war reconstruction, to serve the northern area of Milan. Until recently, it was a major hub for Alitalia, but now serves as a hub for long-haul flights and low cost carriers. It is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of central Milan, Italy. It is one of 3 airports in the Milan metropolitan area.

The airport is in the Province of Varese, within the communes of Cardano al Campo, Somma Lombardo, Casorate Sempione, Ferno, Lonate Pozzolo, Samarate, and Vizzola Ticino.. The Milan airport system has a third international airport, Orio al Serio Airport, which serves low-cost traffic.

Malpensa was the 21st busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers, handling 18,947,808 passengers in 2010 and 18,537,301 in 2012. As of early 2008, Malpensa remains the top Italian airport in terms of international traffic, together with Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino 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 the company's biggest base outside the United Kingdom.

In 2008 Lufthansa announced plans to create its first Hub outside Germany, and its fourth European hub, at Milan Malpensa airport. In October 2008, Lufthansa set up its Italian division, Lufthansa Italia. Operations commenced on 2 February 2009, and ceased on October 30, 2011 as Lufthansa abandoned plans to create a hub at Malpensa airport.

Malpensa has two terminals and a third runway has been announced, with construction to commence in 2014 and finish in 2017. There is also a dedicated cargo terminal called "CargoCity", which currently handles over 410,000 tons of yearly traffic.

History

The airfield has been associated with aviation for more than 100 years. It all began on 27 May 1910 when the Caproni brothers flew their first "flying machine", the Cal biplane, from what was little more than a field. In the years that followed, many prototypes took-off from here and eventually a more formal airfield was established. Both Gianni Caproni and Giovanni Agusta established factories on the new site, and it quickly developed into the largest aircraft production centre in Italy. During the 1920s and 1930s, the airfield hosted two squadrons of the Regia Aeronautica Italiana (Italian Air Force). In September 1943, Malpensa airfield was taken over by the Luftwaffe. Soon after their arrival the Germans laid the airfield’s first concrete runway. After the cessation of hostilities, manufacturers and politicians of the Milan and Varese regions, led by banker Benigno Ajroldi of Banca Alto Milanese, restored the airfield with the aim of making it an industrial fulcrum for post-war recovery. The main runway, which was heavily damaged by German troops as they retreated from northern Italy, was rebuilt and extended to 1,800m and a small wooden terminal was constructed to protect goods and passengers from the weather.

After World War II

Malpensa Airport official opening to commercial traffic took place on 21 November 1948 as "Aeroporto Cittadi Busto Arsizio", although Belgian national flag carrier Sabena had started flying to Brussels from here a year earlier. On 2 February 1950 Trans World Airlines (TWA) became the first company to fly long-haul flights from Malpensa, using Lockheed Constellation on services to New York/Idlewild Airport. A change of ownership occurred in 1952 when the Municipality of Milan took control of the airport’s operator, the "Societa Aeroporto di Busto Arsizio", and changed its name to "Societa Esercizi Aeroportuali SpA" (SEA). Once in full control, SEA decided to develop Malpensa as an international and intercontinental gateway, while Milan’s other airport, Linate Airport, was tasked with handling domestic services only. Between 1958 and 1962 a new terminal was constructed at Malpensa and the facility’s two parallel runways were extended to3,915m in length, becoming the longest in Europe at that time.
By the beginning of the 1960s, major European carriers such as British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and Alitalia had moved the majority of their services to Linate Airport, which was just 11km from Milan’s city centre, making it much easier to reach for passengers. This left Malpensa with just a handful of intercontinental links, charter flights and cargo operations. It was the beginning of a period of good fortune for the city facility while Malpensa suffered a decline in commercial traffic, with passenger numbers dropping from 525,000 in 1960 to just 331,000 by 1965. It was destined to play second fiddle to Linate Airport for another 20 years.
By the mid-1980s Linate Airport was handling seven million passengers per year and, with only a short single runway and limited parking slots, it had reached saturation point. With no land available for expansion, an alternative solution was sought. "Societa Esercizi Aeroportuali SpA" (SEA) quickly found that developing Malpensa was the only practical alternative. By the end of 1985, a law had been passed by the Italian Parliament that paved the way for the reorganisation of the Milan airport system. Malpensa was designated as the centre for all air services covering northern Italy, while Linate Airport was downgraded to a domestic and short-haul facility. "Malpensa 2000", as the plan was called, included the construction of a new terminal as well as developing fast and efficient connections to Milan’s city centre. The European Union recognised the project as one of the 14 “essential to the development of the Union” and provided €200 million to help finance the work. Construction started in November 1990, with Milan’s state-of-the-art airport was opened eight years later.

Alitalia Moves In

During the night of October 24/25 1998 Alitalia moved the majority of its fleet from Rome-Fiumicino – where it had flown from for over 50 years – to Malpensa Airport, which then started a new lease of life as the Italian flag carrier’s main hub. Alitalia added up to 488 movements and 42,000 passengers a day at the facility which, by the end of that year, had handled 5,92 million passengers, an increase of more than two million over the previous year’s figure. In 1999 it recorded a spectacular leap to 16,97 million and by 2007 numbers had reached 23,9 million. Efficient rail links to and from the airport from two different stations in Milan (Centrale and Cadorna) ensured easy access while the nearby A8 motorway had an extra lane added in each direction to help speed-up traffic into and out of the city centre.
Malpensa Airport had firmly established itself as one of Italy’s leading facilities, but it wasn’t standing still. A new development plan was launched by "Societa Esercizi Aeroportuali SpA" (SEA), valued at €1.4 billion, which included a third pier for Terminal 1 and the construction of a third runway. However, this was not enough to keep the national carrier happy. In a decision that shocked the population of northern Italy, Alitalia announced that it was moving its hub operations back to Rome/Fiumicino with immediate effect. Many Milanese believed the Italian carrier had betrayed them with its decision – but the airline countered by saying it was forced to move due to the high operating costs at Malpensa. Alitalia didn’t pull out of Milan entirely; it continued to fly several domestic and European services from here as well as three intercontinental flights (to New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo). But the airport lost around 20% of its daily movements, a decrease from 700 to 550, which resulted in only 19,2 million passengers passing through its doors during 2008. It continued to suffer during 2009, the international financial crisis and higher fuel prices meaning passenger figures fell below those set in 1997, with only 17,6 million people using the facility. For "Societa Esercizi Aeroportuali SpA" (SEA), Alitalia’s move came as a complete shock. But after a summer of coming to terms with the reality of the withdrawal, the publicly-owned group (its major shareholder is the municipality of Milan) decided to launch an all-out publicity programme, aggressively marketing the airport and its capabilities around the world. This campaign was deemed a success (in the face of Alitalia’s departure): in the three years after spring 2008, a total of 34 new passenger and cargo airlines started flying to and from the airport – including low-cost carrier easyJet, which has made Malpensa its most important base after London-Gatwick with a total of 17 of its fleet of Airbus A319s based here. The airline currently flies services to 43 destinations across Italy and Europe.

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. .

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 a free market one.

Security services

Passport stamp

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.

Terminals

Malpensa has two terminals:

Terminal 1

Is divided into three sections:

• • 1A, which handles domestic and intra-Schengen flights
  • 1B, which handles non-Schengen and some intercontinental flights
  • 1C, which handles non-Schengen and some intercontinental flights, opened in January 2013
• Volareweb.com, when it existed, had its head office in the Area Tecnica Sud, in Terminal 1 and in Ferno

Terminal 2

• is used by Low Cost Carriers (currently only EasyJet). Previously Terminal 2 was also used for charter services. Charter flights are now operated from Terminal 1.

Airlines and destinations

Alitalia Airbus A330-200 takeoff from Malpensa Airport.

easyJet Airbus A319 landing at Malpensa Airport.

Aeroflot Airbus A321 landing at Malpensa Airport.

Air Italy Boeing 767-200ER taxing at Malpensa Airport.

airBaltic Boeing 737-300 taxing at Malpensa Airport.

Air One Airbus A320 taxing at Malpensa Airport.

British Airways Airbus A320 taxing at Malpensa Airport.

Scheduled

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens Seasonal: Corfu, Thessaloniki	1A
Aer Lingus	Dublin	1C
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	1B
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya	St Petersburg	1B
Air Algérie	Algiers	1B
Air Baltic	Riga	1A
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf	1A
Air China	Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong	1B
Air Europa	Madrid	1A
Air Malta	Malta	1A
Air Moldova	Chisinau	1B
Air One	Catania, Lamezia Terme Seasonal: Alghero, Heraklion, Ibiza, Minorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Rhodes, Trapani	1A
Air One	Tirana, Tunis Seasonal: St Petersburg	1B
Air Serbia	Belgrade (begins 27 October 2013)	1B
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino	1A
Alitalia	Cairo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Tokyo-Narita	1B
Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner	Rome-Fiumicino	1A
American Airlines	New York-JFK Seasonal: Miami (begins 22 November 2013)	1B
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal: Vágar	1B
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Vienna	1A
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku	1B
Belavia	Minsk-National	1B
Belle Air	Tirana	1B
Belle Air Europe	Pristina	1B
Blue Panorama Airlines	Cayo Largo del Sur, Havana, La Romana, Mombasa Seasonal: Cancún, Holguín, Montego Bay	1B
BMI Regional	Bristol	1B
British Airways	London-Heathrow	1B
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	1A
Bulgaria Air	Sofia	1B
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong	1B
Czech Airlines	Prague	1A
Darwin Airline	Cambridge	1B
Delta Air Lines	New York-JFK Seasonal: Atlanta	1B
easyJet	Alghero, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Belgrade-Nikola Tesla Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Casablanca, Catania, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Marrakech, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el-Sheikh, Toulouse (ends 2 October 2013) Seasonal: Ajaccio, Cephalonia, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Malta, Menorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini, Split, Zakynthos	2
EgyptAir	Cairo	1B
El Al	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	1B
Emirates	Dubai, New York-JFK (begins 1 October 2013)	1C
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa	1B
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi	1C
Eurolot	Lublin (begins October 2013)	1A
Finnair	Helsinki	1A
Flybe	Birmingham, Manchester	1B
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart	1A
HOP!	Lyon, Marseille, Nantes	1A
Iberia	Madrid	1A
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík	1A
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini}	1B
Jat Airways	Belgrade (ends 25 October 2013)	1B
Jetairfly	Seasonal: Casablanca	1B
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon	1B
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw-Chopin	1A
Lufthansa	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Hamburg	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich	1A
Luxair	Luxembourg	1A
Meridiana	Fuerteventura, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Rhodes, Santorini	1A
Meridiana	Chisinau, Dakar, Fortaleza, Havana, Holguín, La Romana, Malé, Mauritius, Natal, Nosy Be, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion Seasonal: Mombasa, Sharm el-Sheikh	1B
Middle East Airlines	Beirut	1B
Niki	Vienna	1A
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen (ends 25 October 2013), Oslo-Gardermoen	1A
Oman Air	Muscat	1B
Pakistan International Airlines	Islamabad, Lahore	1B
Qatar Airways	Doha	1C
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca	1B
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia	1B
Saudia	Jeddah, Riyadh Hajj: Medina (begins 26 September 2013)	1C
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda	1A
Singapore Airlines	Singapore	1C
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines	Zürich	1A
TAM Airlines	São Paulo-Guarulhos	1C
TAP Portugal	Lisbon	1A
TAP Portugal operated by Portugália	Porto	1A
Thai Airways	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi	1B
Transaero Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo, St. Petersburg	1C
Tunisair	Tunis	1B
Turkish Airlines	Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen	1C
Twin Jet	Toulouse	1A
United Airlines	Newark	1B
Ukraine International Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil	1B
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent	1B
Vueling	Barcelona Seasonal: Bilbao, Ibiza, Valencia	1A
Wizz Air	Budapest	1A
Wizz Air	Bucharest	1B
WOW air	Seasonal: Reykjavik-Keflavik	1B

Charter

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Air Cairo	Seasonal: Hurgada	1B
Air Memphis	Seasonal: Hurgada	1B
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Malaga, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Tenerife-South	1A
Alitalia	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, Moi, Rhodes, Skiathos	1A
AMC Airlines	El Alamein, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zanzibar	1B
Blue Panorama Airlines	Seasonal: Heraklion, Medellin, Lampedusa, Lourdes, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini	1A
Cairo Aviation	Seasonal: Hurgada	1B
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Bodrum	1B
Europe Airpost	Lourdes	1A
Europe Airpost	Tangier	1B
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya, Bursa	1B
Livingston	Seasonal: Athens, Cagliari, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Lampedusa, Las Palmas, Lourdes, Malaga, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South	1A
Livingston	Seasonal: Antalya, Boa Vista, Djerba, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Mostar, Ilha do Sal, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	1B
Mistral Air	Seasonal: Lampedusa, Pantelleria	1A
Neos	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Arrecife, Brindisi, Chania, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Lourdes, Madrid, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Porto Santo, Rhodes, Santorini, Seville, Skiathos, Tenerife-South	1A
Neos	Seasonal: Agadir, Amman, Antalya, Antigua, Aqaba, Banjul, Boa Vista, Cairo, Cancún, Cayo Largo, Dakar, Djerba, Dubai, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, La Romana, Larnaca, Luxor, Mahé, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mérida, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Mostar, Montego Bay, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Punta Cana, Ras al-Khaimah, Recife, Sal, Salvador da Bahia, Samaná, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Zanzibar	1B
Nesma Airlines	Seasonal: Sharm el-Sheikh	1B
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka	1B
Olympic Air	Seasonal: Heraklion	1B
Small Planet Airlines	Seasonal: Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos	1A
Small Planet Airlines	Mostar	1B
SmartLynx Airlines	Seasonal: Lourdes, Málaga, Tenerife-South	1A
SunExpress	Seasonal: Izmir	1B
Tunisair	Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Maastricht, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Asiana Cargo	London-Stansted, Seoul-Incheon, Vienna
Cargolux	Campinas-Viracopos, Chicago, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Maastricht, New York-JFK
Cargolux Italia	Almaty, Baku, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Dubai, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Osaka-Kansai,
Cathay Pacific	Delhi, Hong Kong, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Mumbai
China Cargo Airlines	Shanghai-Pudong
DHL Aviation	London-Heathrow, London-Luton, London-Stansted
EgyptAir Cargo	Cairo
Etihad Crystal Cargo	Abu Dhabi, Benghazi, Tripoli
European Air Transport	London-Heathrow
FedEx Express	Ancona, Guangzhou, Memphis, Munich, Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Shanghai-Pudong, Venice-Marco Polo
Korean Air Cargo	Navoiy, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Vienna
Nippon Cargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Tokyo-Narita
Qatar Airways Cargo	Chicago-O'Hare, Doha, Tripoli
Saudia Cargo	Brussels, Jeddah, Riyadh
Silk Way Airlines	Baku
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Istanbul-Atatürk, Lagos, Tirana

Traffic and statistics

Busiest Domestic Routes from Malpensa (2008-2009-2010-2011-2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2012	Passengers 2011	Passenger 2010	Passenger 2009	Passenger 2008
1	Catania, Italy	668.530	725.773	544.328	438.513	328.122
2	Naples, Italy	640.752	702.984	703.031	572.753	495.607
3	Rome, Italy	600.620	674.836	683.031	671.396	533.845
4	Palermo, Italy	369.836	455.657	468.362	396.283	438.164
5	Bari, Italy	292.978	342.553	372.863	368.909	276.168
6	Lamezia Terme, Italy	284.536	285.515	256.948	130.760	152.422
7	Olbia, Italy	282.248	233.096	192.862	170.712	141.253
8	Brindisi, Italy	167.389	184.847	156.335	100.003	114.706
9	Cagliari, Italy	127.540	124.362	112.416	-	157.119

Busiest International Routes from Malpensa within European Union (2008-2009-2010-2011-2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2012	Passengers 2011	Passengers 2010	Passenger 2009	Passenger 2008
1	Madrid, Spain	643.280	560.443	624.290	581.580	713.8551
2	Barcelona, Spain	588.214	609.832	564.628	543.512	485.016
3	Paris-CDG, France	550.409	856.817	922.702	998.271	876.087
4	London, United Kingdom	542.790	359.574	335.273	314.771	316.521
5	Amsterdam, Netherlands	403.142	549.023	558.481	562.836	656.953
6	Munich, Germany	382.381	363.932	316.544	290.326	309.8686
7	Copenhagen, Denmark	379.582	289.633	272.285	274.516	261.130
8	Vienna, Austria	344.127	365.522	295.861	246.336	240.256
9	Frankfurt am Main, Germany	317.019	335.758	305.890	311.742	345.206
10	Prague, Czech Republic	306.902	283.056	218.680	197.182	238.231
11	Brussels, Belgium	305.883	308.765	258.152	289.887	288.300
12	Lisbon, Portugal	289.805	320.512	321.320	296.108	274.541
13	Dusseldorf, Germany	279.429	296.640	263.328	265.093	227.954
14	Athens, Greece	273.776	245.269	275.273	377.211	370.607
15	London-Heathrow, United Kingdom	183.789	437.897	491.844	466.405	357.701

Busiest International Routes from Malpensa outside the European Union (2008-2009-2010-2011-2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2012	Passengers 2011	Passengers 2010	Passenger 2009	Passenger 2008
1	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	463.335	390.996	405.502	289.659	170.657
2	New York-Kennedy, United States	379.167	345.534	321.837	332.555	294.132
3	Istanbul-Atatürk, Turkey	329.679	290.455	315.435	289.569	286.727
4	Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Russia	297.409	265.968	240.948	213.528	262.850
5	Zürich, Switzerland	259.414	264.068	243.426	251.560	282.684
6	Casablanca, Morocco	228.662	234.537	255.732	207.249	256.749
7	Tirana, Albania	213.981	198.181	152.109	121.792	130.863
8	Doha, Qatar	194.575	139.804	155.848	131.370	119.560
9	Tel Aviv, Israel	188.625	186.569	205.771	199.666	170.947
10	Hong Kong, SAR	178.695	138.778	76.658	-	-
11	Cairo, Egypt	176.972	204.216	243.660	220.259	248.375
12	Tunis, Tunisia	170.941	134.090	145.407	104.433	126.521
13	Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt	151.005	117.753	225.767	251.997	266.823
14	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	146.909	116.195	86.059	-	-
15	Marsa Alam, Egypt	144.706	100.011	170.113	160.166	155.421
16	São Paulo-Guarulhos, Brazil	143.506	163.516	190.132	214.449	240.232
17	Singapore, Singapore	128.571	116.901	89.771	-	-
18	Delhi, India	125.538	126.110	-	-	-
19	Shanghai, China	122.214	108.869	101.899	101.427	-
20	Mombasa, Kenya	116.628	132.808	107.266	-	-
21	New York-Newark, United States	106.894	96.489	96.409	93.732	129.635
22	Marrakech, Morocco	102.905	103.933	117.303	131.107	118.485

Transport links

Rail

Main articles: Malpensa Aeroporto railway station and Malpensa Express

Malpensa Express at Milano-Cadorna Railway Station

Connection between the rail station and the airport

Malpensa Airport Diagram

• Malpensa Aeroporto railway station 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). Malpensa Express arrives at the Terminal 1, an additional bus travel is required to reach Terminal 2. Journey time is 29 minutes for non-stop services and 34 minutes for services calling at Busto Arsizio, Saronno and Bovisa.

• A second Express service to Milan Central Station began with the winter rail schedule change (13 December 2010). There is a train every 30 minutes, also stopping at Milan Porta Garibaldi station; journey time is 41 minutes. During rush hours, services also call at Milano Bovisa station and Saronno Centrale; for these services journey time is 47 minutes.

• Two daily High Speed (Alta Velocità) services link Milan Malpensa's railway station, to Florence (calling at Milano Centrale, Bologna Centrale and Firenze Santa Maria Novella) and Naples (calling at Milano Centrale, Bologna Centrale, Firenze Santa Maria Novella, Roma Termini, Napoli Centrale). As of October 2012, the service was terminated.

• Suburban Line S10 (Milano Rogoredo-Milano Bovisa) has been running to Malpensa since June 2010. Trains call at: Ferno, Busto Arsizio, Castellanza, Rescaldina, Saronno Centrale, Milano Bovisa, Milano Lancetti, Milano Porta Garibaldi M2 (Green), Milano Repubblica M3 (Yellow), Milano Porta Venezia M1 (Red), Milano Dateo and Milano Porta Vittoria. As of October 2012, the service was terminated.

• There is also a shuttle connection between Malpensa Airport railway station and Busto Arsizio FS. From here there are connections with Milan's railway stations of Milano Centrale and Milano Porta Garibaldi.

• The Malpensa – Varese – Mendrisio (CH) – Lugano (CH) line is being built and will be finished by 2015. 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.

Bus

Malpensa Shuttle and Malpensa Bus Express connect the airport to Milan Central Station (Trenitalia's National Railway hub) and the metro. 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 7 minutes 24 hours a day, within the airport. Travel time to go from one terminal to the other is about 15 minutes.

Malpensa is also connected by bus to Linate Airport and to various cities in northern Italy with Lufthansa Airport Bus(like Turin, Novara, Como, Varese, Bergamo and Brescia) and Switzerland.

Since February 2010, Lufthansa Airport Bus, in partnership with Autostrade SpA, connects Milan Central Station, with Terminal 1 & 2, with stops in Fieramilanocity and Milan Fair – Rho/Pero on request, every 20 minutes. Furthermore this new service links the Airport with the nearby Lombard provinces of Varese, Como, Bergamo and Brescia, those of Alessandria, Novara and Turin in Piedmont, Genoa in Liguria and also Bellinzona, Chiasso and Lugano in Switzerland. For these destinations passengers can also enjoy an additional limousine transfer service with high-end car or minibus (max. 8 people) bookable until 24 hours.

Taxi

Taxis are available at the Arrivals of Terminal 1 & 2.

Road connections

Malpensa Airport is connected by a four-lane highway to the A8 motorway (connecting Switzerland to Milan) and by a five-lane highway to the A4 motorway linking Milan to Turin and to the Strada Statale 11.

External links

• Milano Malpensa 1 Airport Official website
• Milano Malpensa 2 Airport Official website
• SEA SpA Official website
• Malpensa Airport AOC & USERS Committees MXP Milan
• Current weather for LIMC at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MXP at Aviation Safety Network
• Malpensa Airport Forum (Italian)