Malpensa Airport

Milan Malpensa Airport "City of Milan" Aeroporto di Milano-Malpensa "Città di Milano"
IATA: MXP – ICAO: LIMC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Società Enti Aeroportuali (SEA) Aeroporti di Milano
Serves		Milan
Location		Somma Lombardo, Italy
Elevation AMSL		768 ft / 234 m
Coordinates		45°37′48″N 008°43′23″E
Website		www.milanomalpensa1.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 (2011)
Passengers			19,291,427
Source: ASSAEROPORTI

Milano Malpensa Airport "City of Milan" (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC), former "Aeroporto Città di Busto Arsizio" is Milan's largest airport and was until recently 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.^{[citation needed]} 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 40 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.^{[citation needed]}

Malpensa was the 21st busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers, handling 18,947,808 passengers in 2010 and 19,291,427 in 2011. 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 UK.

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 completion set for 2012. There is also a dedicated cargo terminal called "CargoCity", which currently handles over 410,000 tons of yearly traffic.

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.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Malpensa has two terminals:

Terminal 1

• will be divided into three sections:
  • 1A, which handles domestic and intra-Schengen flights
  • 1B, which handles non-Schengen and all intercontinental flights
  • 1C, which is currently under construction
• 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.

Terminal 1, as seen from outside

The new Check-In area available in Terminal 1

Lufthansa's first A380 making a special visit, with the main terminal in the background

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens Seasonal: Corfu [begins 18 July 2012], Mykonos [resumes 30 June 2012], Santorini [resumes 11 July 2012]	1A
Aer Lingus	Dublin	1B
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	1B
Aerosvit	Odessa	1B
Air Algérie	Algiers	1B
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart	1A
Air China	Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong	1B
Air Europa	Madrid	1A
Air France operated by Régional	Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse	1A
Air Italy	Fortaleza, Havana, La Romana, Natal, Nosy Be Charter: Dubai	1B
Air Mauritius	Mauritius [ends 1 June 2012]	1B
Air Moldova	Chişinău	1B
Air One	Amsterdam [begins 17 September 2012], Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Lamezia Terme, London-Gatwick [begins 25 March 2012], Munich [begins 25 March 2012], Naples, Palermo, Prague, Trapani, Warsaw-Chopin [begins 1 June 2012] Seasonal: Alghero, Corfu, Herakliòn, Ibiza, Minorca, Mykonos [begins 14 July 2012], Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes	1A
Air One	Belgrade [begins 17 September 2012], Kiev-Boryspil [begins 17 September 2012], Tirana, Tunis	1B
Air Vallée	Iaşi [begins 30 April 2012]	1B
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino	1A
Alitalia	Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Tokyo-Narita Seasonal: St Petersburg [begins 26 May 2012]	1B
Alitalia operated by Air One	Cairo	1B
American Airlines	New York-JFK	1B
Armavia	Yerevan [begins 29 March 2012]	1B
Atlasjet	Antalya	1B
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	1A
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku	1B
Belavia	Minsk	1B
Belle Air	Tirana	1B
Biman Bangladesh Airlines	Dhaka	1B
Blu-express	Seasonal: Lampedusa	1A
Blue Air	Antalya	1A
Blue Panorama Airlines	Heraklion, Lampedusa, Lourdes, Rhodes, Santorini	1A
Blue Panorama Airlines	Antigua, Aruba, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancún, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cartagena, Curaçao, Havana, Holguin, La Romana, Mahé, Phuket, Santa Clara Seasonal: Yangon	1B
British Airways	London-Heathrow	1B
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	1A
Bulgaria Air	Sofia	1B
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong	1B
Cyprus Airways	Larnaca	1B
Czech Airlines	Prague	1A
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, New York-JFK	1B
EasyJet	Agadir, Alghero [begins 23 June 2012], Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Casablanca, Catania, Copenhagen, Corfu, Edinburgh, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Málaga, Marrakech, Mykonos, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Thessaloniki, Toulouse Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Kos, Malta, Rhodes, Santorini, Zante	2
EgyptAir	Cairo	1B
El Al	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	1B
ElbaFly	Seasonal: Elba	1A
Emirates	Dubai	1B
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa	1B
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi	1B
Europe Airpost	Lourdes	1A
Europe Airpost	Tangier	1B
Finnair	Helsinki	1A
Flybe	Birmingham, Manchester	1B
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart	1A
Gulf Air	Bahrain [ends 12 March 2012]	1B
Iberia	Madrid	1A
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík	1A
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini	1B
Jat Airways	Belgrade	1B
Jet Airways	Delhi	1B
Jet4you	Casablanca	1B
KLM	Amsterdam [ends 25 March 2012]	1A
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon	1B
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw-Chopin	1A
Lufthansa	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air	Stuttgart	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Hamburg Seasonal: Düsseldorf	1A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich	1A
Luxair	Luxembourg	1A
Meridiana Fly	Antalya, Bodrum, Cagliari, Fuerteventura, Olbia, Tenerife-South, Tortolì Seasonal: Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini	1A
Meridiana Fly	Chişinău, Dakar, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Zanzibar	1B
Meridiana Fly operated by Air Italy	Mauritius	1B
Middle East Airlines	Beirut	1B
Monarch	Birmingham [begins 25 March 2012], London-Gatwick [begins 25 March 2012], Manchester [begins 25 March 2012]	1B
Niki	Vienna	1A
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen [begins 29 June 2012], Oslo	1A
Oman Air	Muscat	1B
Pakistan International Airlines	Islamabad, Lahore	1B
Qatar Airways	Doha	1B
Rossiya	Saint Petersburg	1B
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca	1B
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia	1B
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah, Riyadh	1B
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda Seasonal: Oslo	1A
Sky Airlines	Antalya	1B
Skybridge AirOps	Perugia	1A
Skybridge AirOps	Sharm el-Sheikh	1B
Singapore Airlines	Singapore	1B
SriLankan Airlines	Colombo	1B
SunExpress	Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, İzmir	1B
Sun d'Or operated by El Al	Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	1B
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich	1A
Syrian Air	Damascus [resumes 4 June]	1B
TACV	Sal (Cape Verde)	1B
TAM Airlines	São Paulo-Guarulhos	1B
TAP Portugal	Lisbon, Porto	1A
TAP Portugal operated by Portugália	Porto	1A
Thai Airways International	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi	1B
Transavia.com	Rotterdam	1A
Tunisair	Djerba, Enfidha, Monastir, Tabarka, Tozeur, Tunis	1B
Turkish Airlines	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk	1B
United Airlines	Newark	1B
Ukraine International Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil	1B
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent	1B
Vueling	Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia Seasonal: Ibiza, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca	1A
Wind Jet	Catania	1A

Notes

• ^1 These flights have an intermediate stop before arriving at their listed destinations, but the airline does not have local traffic rights on the leg.

Charter

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
AlbaStar	Ibiza, Malaga, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South	1A
Alitalia	Saint Maarten Seasonal: La Romana, Malé, Mombasa, Santo Domingo, Zanzibar	1B
AMC Airlines	El Alamein, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh	1B
Blu-express	Antalya, Barcelona, Bodrum, Hurghada, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh	1B
CityLine Hungary	Budapest	1B
Iberworld	Minorca	1A
Israir Airlines	Tel Aviv	1B
Mistral Air	Pantelleria	1A
Mistral Air	Hurghada, Latakia, Tel Aviv	1B
Neos	Amsterdam, Arrecife, Brindisi, Chania, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lisbon, Lourdes, Madrid, Minorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Porto Santo, Rhodes, Santorini, Seville, Skiathos, Tenerife-South	1A
Neos	Agadir, Aleppo, Amman-Queen Alia, Amman-Marka, Antalya, Antigua, Aqaba, Banjul, Boa Vista, Cairo, Cancún, Cap Skirring, Djerba, Dubai, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, La Romana, Larnaca, Luxor, Mahé, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mérida, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Punta Cana, Ras al-Khaimah, Recife, Sal, Salvador da Bahia, Samaná, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar	1B
Nouvelair	Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka	1B
Onur Air	Seasonal: Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk	1B
SmartLynx Airlines	Lourdes, Málaga, Tenerife-South	1A

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Air China Cargo	Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Novosibirsk, Shanghai-Pudong, Vienna
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Maastricht, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Asiana Cargo	London-Stansted, Seoul-Incheon, Vienna
Atlas Air	Lima, Santa Maria
Cargolux	Campinas-Viracopos, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Maastricht, New York-JFK
Cargolux Italia	Almaty, Baku, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Osaka-Kansai, Taipei-Taoyuan
Cathay Pacific	Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London-Heathrow, Manchester, New York-JFK, Paris-CDG
China Airlines	Dubai, Manchester, Taipei-Taoyuan
China Cargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Shanghai-Pudong, Urumqi
China Southern Airlines	Amsterdam, Guangzhou
Cygnus Air	Madrid
DHL Aviation	London-Heathrow, London-Luton, London-Stansted
EgyptAir Cargo	Cairo
Etihad Crystal Cargo	Abu Dhabi, Tripoli
European Air Transport	London-Heathrow
FedEx Express	Ancona, Lisbon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Venice-Marco Polo
Korean Air Cargo	Navoiy, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Vienna
Mistral Air	Lourdes
Nippon Cargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Nagoya-Centrair, Tokyo-Narita
Polet Airlines	Khartoum
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Air Maroc Cargo	Casablanca [begins 30 June], El Aaiún [begins 30 June]
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Brussels, Jeddah, Riyadh
Silk Way Airlines	Baku
Southern Air	Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK
TAROM Cargo	Bucharest-Henri Coandă
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk, Pristina
World Airways	Baltimore, Chicago-O'Hare, Mexico City, New York-JFK

Traffic and statistics

Busiest Domestic Routes from Malpensa (2010)

Rank	City	Passengers	Airline
1	Naples, Italy	703.031	Air One, Easyjet
2	Rome, Italy	683.081	Alitalia, Easyjet, Lufthansa
3	Catania, Italy	544.328	Easyjet, Lufthansa, Windjet
4	Palermo, Italy	468.362	Easyjet, Lufthansa
5	Bari, Italy	372.863	Air One, Easyjet, Lufthansa
6	Lamezia Terme, Italy	256.948	Air One, Easyjet
7	Olbia, Italy	192.862	Air One, Easyjet, Lufthansa, Meridiana Fly
8	Brindisi, Italy	156.335	Air One, Easyjet
9	Cagliari, Italy	112.416	Easyjet

Busiest International Routes from Malpensa within European Union (2010)

Rank	City	Passengers	Airline
1	Paris-CDG, France	922.702	Air France, Easyjet, Lufthansa
2	Madrid, Spain	624.290	Easyjet, Iberia, Lufthansa
3	Barcelona, Spain	564.628	Easyjet, Lufthansa, Vueling
4	Amsterdam, Netherlands	558.481	Easyjet, KLM
5	London-Heathrow, United Kingdom	491.844	British Airways, Lufthansa
6	London-Gatwick, United Kingdom	335.273	Easyjet
7	Lisbon, Portugal	321.320	Easyjet, Lufthansa, TAP Portugal
8	Munich, Germany	316.544	Lufthansa
9	Frankfurt am Main, Germany	305.890	Lufthansa
10	Vienna, Austria	295.861	Austrian Airlines, FlyNiki
11	Copenhagen, Denmark	281.285	Easyjet, Scandinavian Airlines
12	Athens, Greece	275.273	Aegean Airlines, Air One, Easyjet, Olympic Air

Busiest International Routes from Malpensa outside the European Union (2010)

Rank	City	Passengers	Airline
1	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	405.502	Emirates
2	New York-Kennedy, United States	321.837	Alitalia, American Airlines, Delta Airlines
3	Istanbul-Atatürk, Turkey	315.435	Turkish Airlines
4	Casablanca, Morocco	255.732	Easyjet, Jet4you, Royal Air Maroc
5	Cairo, Egypt	243.660	Air One, Egypt Air
6	Zürich, Switzerland	243.426	Swiss International Air Lines
7	Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Russia	240.948	Aeroflot, Alitalia
8	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	225.767	Blue Panorama Airlines, Meridiana Fly, Skybridge AirOps, AMC Airlines, Neos
9	Tel Aviv, Israel	205.771	El Al, Israir, Meridiana Fly, Sun d'Or
10	São Paulo-Guarulhos, Brazil	190.132	TAM
11	Antalya, Turkey	188.912	Blue Panorama Airlines, Meridiana Fly, Neos, Onur Air, Sky Airlines, Turkish Airlines
12	Marsa Alam, Egypt	170.113	AMC Airlines, Meridiana Fly, Neos

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 will begin with the winter rail schedule change (13 December 2010). There will be a train every 30 minutes calling at Milan Porta Garibaldi station; journey time will be 41 minutes. During rush hours, services will also call at Milano Bovisa station and Saronno Centrale; for these services journey time will be 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).

• 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.

• 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 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 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 20 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.

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.

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
• Malpensa Airport information
• Current weather for LIMC at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MXP at Aviation Safety Network
• Malpensa Airport News
• Malpensa Airport Forum (Italian)