Malpensa Airport

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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		Milan, Italy
Hub for		Air Italy Air One Blue Panorama Airlines EasyJet Eurofly Livingston Energy Flight Neos
Elevation AMSL		768 ft / 234 m
Coordinates		45°37′48″N 008°43′23″E / 45.63°N 8.72306°E / 45.63; 8.72306 (Milan Malpensa Airport)Coordinates: 45°37′48″N 008°43′23″E / 45.63°N 8.72306°E / 45.63; 8.72306 (Milan Malpensa Airport)
Website		www.sea-aeroportimilano.it
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
17L/35R	3,920	12,861	Asphalt
17R/35L	3,920	12,861	Asphalt
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

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.

Transport links

Rail

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Malpensa Airport Diagram

• 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.

Bus

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.

Taxi

Taxis are available at the Arrivals of Terminal 1 & 2. Taxi fares to Milan tend to be quite expensive, generally exceeding €80.

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.

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.

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.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1-A / Schengen Destinations

Terminal 1-B / non-Schengen Destinations

¹: Singapore Airlines flights continue to/from Barcelona, but Singapore Airlines has no right to transport passengers between Milan-Malpensa and Barcelona.

Terminal 1-C

Terminal 1-C is under construction

Terminal 2

Cargo airlines

References

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External links

• 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 News

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