Milan Malpensa Airport
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Malpensa International Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC) is located in the province of Varese, near Milan, Italy. It is one of two main international airports in Milan.
The airport is connected to Milan by the Milano-Varese highway as well by a dedicated train called "Malpensa Express". It is also connected to the other international airport of Milan, Linate, by a scheduled bus service. The Milan airport system has another international airport, Orio al Serio International Airport, which serves the low-cost and charter traffic.
Malpensa is the main hub of Alitalia, the Italian national flag carrier, with over 19,6 million passengers in the year 2005 (over 29 with Linate, the second airport of Milan, closer to the town and over 33 with Orio al Serio International Airport, Milan's low cost airport). This airport is the most important international airport in Italy; Malpensa serves a population of over 15 million people. The airport is also connected to Swiss cities of Lugano, Zurich and Geneva by the Swiss rail.
Malpensa International Airport has two terminals, T1 for commercial traffic and T2 for charter and low-fares 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 the third runway is going to be built. There is also a dedicated cargo terminal called "CargoCity" with over 380.000 tons of yearly traffic.
Before major improvement work carried out in 1998, the airport was used mostly for long-haul flights to the United States, South Africa, and Asia. Flights to Europe, Middle East and North Africa used Linate airport which is much smaller than the improved Malpensa. Today most of these flights, with the exception of some national and European flights using narrow-bodied aircraft have been transferred from Linate to Malpensa.
Because of flight delays and inconvenience, Malpensa has been dubbed the worst major airport in Europe by the EU oversight committee governing airports. (Bramblett. Frommer's Northern Italy 2004, p 260)
2005 traffic
- Passengers: 19.630.514
- International arrivals an departures: 16.378.003
- Domestic arrivals and departures: 3.121.155
- Transit: 131.356
- Movements: 227.718
- Cargo: 384.752
JAN-MAG 2006:
- Passengers: 8.243.733 (+11,7%)
- Movements: 96.977 (+7,9%)
- Cargo: 159.790 (-1,0%)
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 (subcontracted to SEA Handling) 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, ARE Group, Globeground Italia and ICTS Italia. Ramp services are provided by SEA Handling and ATA Handling and are both poor quality but are improving. SEA Handling provides 85% 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.
Security services
Airport security services have been 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 Customs Police) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority). 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
Commercial airlines
Terminal 1
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Alps (Ancona, Bolzano, Genua, Nice, Perugia, Strasburg)
- Air Baltic (Riga)
- Air China (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
- Air Madrid (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Air Madagascar (Antananarivo, Nossibe)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Air Plus Comet (Madrid)
- Air Senegal International (Dakar)
- Albanian Airlines (Tirana)
- Alitalia (Accra, Algiers, Amsterdam, Ancona, Athens, Bangkok (probably 2006-2007), Barcelona, Bari, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham (UK), Bologna, Boston, Brindisi, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cagliari, Cairo, Caracas, Catania, Casablanca, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dakar, Damascus, Delhi, Dubai, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Istanbul, Kiev, Krakow, Lagos, Lamezia S.Eufemia, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Manchester (UK), Marseille, Miami, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Naples, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Osaka Kansai, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perugia, Pisa, Prague, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg (RU), São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sarajevo, Shanghai-Pudong, Skopje, Sofia, Split, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tehran-Mehrabad, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Timişoara, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto, Trieste, Tripoli, Tunis, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Wroclaw (2006-2007), Zagreb, Zurich)
- Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Edinburgh, London-City, Manchester (UK)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
- Condor Airlines (Munich)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
- EgyptAir (Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Sharm el Sheikh)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Eritrean Airlines (Amsterdam, Asmara, Jeddah)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa (planed for 2006/2007)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi (planed for 2006/2007))
- Finnair (Helsinki, Rovaniemi (seasonal))
- Germanwings (Cologne)
- HLX.com (Hanover, Stuttgart)
- Iberia (Barcelona, Ibiza (seasonal), Madrid, Palma de Mallorca (seasonal))
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- ItAli Airlines (Foggia, Pescara)
- Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius)
- LOT Polish (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Meridiana (Catania, Olbia)
- MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Ulaanbataar)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- Oasis Hong Kong Airlines (Hong Kong (planed for 2006/2007))
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore)
- Portugália (Funchal, Lisbon, Porto)
- Pulkovo Aviation (St. Petersburg)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Air Maroc (Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh)
- Singapore Airlines (Barcelona, Singapore) (Starts July 19, 2006)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Demascus)
- TACV Cabo Verde Airlines (Santa Maria (Sal))
- TAP Portugal (Faro, Lisbon, Porto)
- Tarom (Bucharest, Cluj)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
- Ukraine International (Kiev)
- US Airways (Philadelphia)
- Varig (Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
- Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid, Valencia)
- Yemenia (Sanaa (planed for 2007))
Terminal 2
- Aegean Airlines (Heraklion)
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa, Zanzibar)
- Aigle Azur
- Air Adriatic
- Air Cairo (Cairo, Sharm el Sheikh)
- Air Europe (Cancun, Havana, Mauritius, Zanzibar)
- Air Horizons
- Air Italy (Dalaman, Dar Es Salaam, Fortaleza, Las Palmas, Nairobi, Natal, Rodhes, Sharm el Sheikh, Varadero, Zanzibar)
- Air Méditerranée (Lourdes)
- Air Memphis (Luxor, Sharm El Sheikh)
- Airlinair
- Air Sal
- Air Slovakia (Fuerteventura, Las Palmas)
- AMC Airlines (Cairo, Sharm el Sheikh)
- Atlas Blue (Agadir, Marrakech)
- Atlasjet
- Blue Panorama Airlines (Cairo, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo, Djerba, Fuerteventura, Havana, Heraklion, Holguin, La Romana, Las Palmas, Maceio, Male, Marsa Alam, Merida, Natal, Nossibe, Palma Mallorca, Puerto Plata, Puntacana, Rhodi, Roatan, Salvador, Sharm El Sheikh, Tabarka, Tenerife, Thira, Varadero)
- Blue Line (airline)
- Blue Wings
- BRA Transportes Aéreos (Natal, Recife)
- Cairo Aviation (Sharm El Sheikh)
- Channel Express (London-Stansted (charter))
- Cirrus Airlines
- Clubair (Chişinău)
- easyJet (Athens, Berlin-Schoenefeld, Bournemouth (January 2007), Dortmund, Glasgow (Autumn 2006), London-Gatwick, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Ibiza, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Olbia, Naples, Palermo)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Heraklyon)
- Eurofly (Al Alamein, Cancun, Colombo, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Romana, Las Palmas, Lourdes, Male, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Palma Mallorca, Puntacana, Santa Cruz, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife, Thira, Tivat, Zanzibar)
- European Air Charter (Heraklion, Ibiza)
- Flightline (Ibiza, Milan-Linate, Skiathos)
- Fly Air (Antalya)
- Free Bird Airlines
- Futura International Airways (Alicante, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas, Malaga, Palma Mallorca, Valladolid)
- Hola Airlines
- Iberworld (Tenerife)
- ItAli Airlines (Djerba, Las Palmas, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife)
- Jetlink Express (Mauritius, Mombasa, Nairobi, Zanzibar)
- Karthago (Djerba, Monastir, Tozeur)
- Livingston (Antigua, Bridgetown/Barbados, Cagliari, Cancun, Colombo, Djerba, Djibouti, Fortaleza, Guatemala city, Havana, Heraklion, Hewanorra/St. Lucia, Holguin, Ibiza, Ilha do Sal, La Romana, Maceio, Mahon, Male, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Natal, Nossibe, Portoseguro, Puerto Plata, Puntacana, Recife, Rhodi, San Jose/Puerto Rico, Santaclara, Santo Domingo, Sharm El Sheikh, Varadero, Zanzibar)
- Luxor Air (Dabaa City)
- Neos (Agadir, Aqaba, Capskirring, Cayo Largo, Colombo, Dakar, Havana, Heraklion, Holguin, Huragada, Ilha do Sal, Lanzarote, Las Palmos, Male, Merida, Mikonos, Montego Bay, Porto Santo, Santiago de Cuba, Sharm el Sheikh, Split, Tenerife, Varadero, Zanzibar)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul, Izmir)
- Solinar (Lourdes)
- Spanair (Ibiza, Palma Mallorca)
- SunExpress (Antalya)
- Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
- Sunline (Mombasa)
- Travel Service
- Viking Airlines (Rhodi)
- Volar (Fuerteventura, Tenerife)
- Volare Airlines (Cancun, Havana, Mauritius, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife, Zanzibar)
- Windjet (Heraklion, Kos, Rhodos)
Cargo Airlines
- Air Atlanta Icelandic
- Alitalia Cargo
- Atlas Air
- Cargo Italia
- Cargolux
- Cathay Pacific
- China Airlines
- Emirates
- Etihad
- European Air Transport
- EVA Air
- Fed Ex
- Korean Air
- Nippon Cargo Airlines
- Ocean Airlines
- Polar Air Cargo
- Polet Cargo
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Tarom Cargo
- Tristar Air
- Volare Aviation Enterprise
- West Air Sweden
News
- 3 weekly flights to Singapore operated by Singapore Airlines SIN-MXP-BCN-MXP-SIN
- 3 weekly flights to Munich operated by Condor
- 2 weekly flights to Addis Ababa operated by Ethiopian Airlines (probably Winter 2006/2007)
- 2 weekly flights to Mahe operated by Air Seychelles (Winter 2006)
- 4 weekly flights to Warsaw operaterd by Norwegian Air Shuttle from September 2006
- Daily flight to Barcelona operated by Air Madrid
External links
- Malpensa International Airport (official site)
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- [1] (Airport Information)
- [2] (Malpensa-express site)
- [3] (Pullman service from Milan to Malpensa Airport and back)
- [4] (Pullman service from Milan to Malpensa Airport and back)
- [5] (Parking in the airport)
- [6] (Limousine service)
- [7] (Taxi service)