Malpensa International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Malpensa International Airport
nativename = Aeroporto di Milano-Malpensa


IATA = MXP
ICAO = LIMC
type = Public
owner =
operator = SEA - Aeroporti di Milano
city-served =
location = Milan, Italy
elevation-f = 767
elevation-m = 234
coordinates = coord|45|37|50|N|008|43|41|E|type:airport_region:IT|display=inline,title
website = [http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/en www.sea-aeroportimilano.it]
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 17L/35R
r1-length-f = 12,844
r1-length-m = 3,915
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 17R/35L
r2-length-f = 12,844
r2-length-m = 3,915
r2-surface = Asphalt
footnotes = Source: DAFIFWAD|LIMC|source=DAFIF] GCM|MXP|source=DAFIF]

Malpensa Airport airport codes|MXP|LIMC is located in the province of Varese, about 50 km from central Milan, Italy. It is one of 3 international airports in the Milan 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 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.

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). Until 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 freight air gateway to Italy. Malpensa serves a population of over 15 million inhabitants.

In late 2007, Alitalia announced the closure of its major hub operations at Malpensa, after deciding to focus most of its hub operations at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Several point-to-point flights will continue between Malpensa and some destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia. Milan will be left with only three long-haul routes operated by Alitalia: New York-JFK, Tokyo-Narita, and Sao Paulo-Guarulhos.

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 is going to be built. There is also a dedicated cargo terminal called "CargoCity" with over 410,000 tons of yearly traffic.

Traffic

Transport links

Rail

Malpensa Airport is linked to Milan Cadorna Station (connection with Milan's subway, the Suburban and the Regional Railway Service) by the Malpensa Express, with intermediate stops at 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 about 40 minutes.

Bus

[http://ticketonline.malpensashuttle.it/inglese/pagine/default.cfm 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, but it may take much longer depending on traffic conditions.

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.

Car

Malpensa Airport is connected by a four-lane highway to the A8 motorway (connecting Switzerland to Milan) and as from April 2008, 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.

ecurity 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 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

*Amsterdam Airlines (Canary Islands, Heraklion, Kos, Rhodos) [ [http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?id=27281 Amsterdam Airlines begins 20 august with flights] ]
*Aegean Airlines (Athens, Heraklion, Rhodos [charter] )
*Aerocondor (Elba) [seasonal]
*airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg [begins November 1] )
*Air Alps (Ancona, Perugia)
*Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
**Air France operated by Régional (Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse)
*Air Italy (Alghero, Brindisi, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Lampedusa, Las Palmas, Lourdes, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodi, Skiathos, Tenerife-South)
*Air Méditerranée (Palma de Mallorca)
*Air One (Berlin-Tegel, Heraklion [charter] , Ibiza [charter] , Kos [charter] , Mykonos [charter] , Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca [charter] , Rhodos [charter] , Rome-Fiumicino, Skiathos [charter] , Thira [charter] )
**operated by Air One CityLiner (Athens, Brussels, Thessaloniki)
*Alitalia (Bari, Catania, Madrid, Marseille, Naples, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino)
**operated by Alitalia Express (Bilbao, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Trieste)
*Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
*Blue1 (Helsinki)
*Blue Panorama Airlines (Heraklion, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Lourdes, Mahon, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Samos, Thira)
*Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
*Clickair (Barcelona, Valencia)
*Elbafly (Elba)
*Eurocypria Airlines (Heraklion)
*Eurofly (Fuerteventura, Hanover, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Lanzarote, Lourdes, Mahon, Mykonos, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pantelleria, Rhodi, Samos, Tenerife Sur, Thira)
*Finnair (Helsinki, Rovaniemi [seasonal] )
*Flightline (Arbatax, Cagliari, Crotone)
*FlyLal (Vilnius)
*Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
*Iberia (Ibiza [seasonal] , Madrid, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal] )
*Iberworld (Palma de Mallorca)
*ItAli Airlines (Pescara)
*Jetairfly (Basel, Brussels)
*KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
*Livingston Energy Flight (Heraklion, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Mahon, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodi, Thira)
*LTE International Airways (Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
*Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Barcelona [begins February 2009] , Brussels [begins February 2009] , Madrid [begins February 2009] , Munich, Lisbon [begins March 2009] , Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins February 2009] )
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Düsseldorf)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Hamburg, Stuttgart)
*Luxair (Luxembourg)
*Meridiana (Alghero, Cagliari [seasonal] , Chişinǎu, Fuerteventura, Lamezia Terme [seasonal] , Olbia [seasonal] , Pristina)
*Mistral Air (Athens, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Lampedusa, Lourdes, Mahon, Malaga, Rovaniemi, Santa Cruz, Tenerife-Sur, Thira)
*Neos (Brindisi, Chania, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodi, Skiathos, Tenerife-Sur, Thira)
*Niki (Vienna)
*Olympic Airlines (Athens)
*Orionair (Salerno)
*Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
*Spanair (Barcelona, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca)
*Sterling (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda [begins October 30] )
*TAP Portugal (Faro [seasonal] , Lisbon, Porto)
*Thomas Cook Airlines (Brussels)
*Viking Airlines (Rhodos)
*VolaSalerno (Salerno)
*Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid, Seville, Valencia)

Terminal 1-B

*Aer Lingus (Belfast-International [begins October 26] , Dublin)
*Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
*airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
*Air China (Beijing [begins October 2009] [ [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=ayKziNsynIMw&refer=canada Air China to begin service to Beijing] ] , Shanghai-Pudong)
*Air Italy (Antananarivo, Fortaleza, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Natal, Nosy Be, Salvador de Bahia)
*Air Madagascar (Antananarivo, Nosy Be)
*Air Malta (Malta)
*Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
*Air Memphis (Hurgada)
*Air Moldova (Chişinǎu)
*Air One (Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Djerba [charter] ) [ [http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064803c4a93&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf Air One to begin service to Boston, Chicago] ]
*Air Seychelles (Mahe)
*Air Transat (Toronto-Pearson) [begins May 27]
*Alitalia (Algiers, Belgrade, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Borypsil, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Tripoli, Tunis)
*AMC Airlines (Sharm el Sheikh)
*American Airlines (New York-JFK)
*Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv)
*Atlas Blue (Agadir, Marrakech)
*Atlasjet (Antalya)
*Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
*Belavia (Minsk)
*Belle Air (Tirana)
*Blue Line (Marrakech)
*Blue Panorama Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cairo, Camaguey, Cancún, Cartagena, Casablanca, Cayo Largo, Freeport, Gan Island, Havana, Holguin, La Romana, Luxor, Maceio, Male, Marrakech, Montego Bay, Nassau, Natal, Nosy Be, Panama City, Phuket, Puntacana, Recife, Roatan, Salvador de Bahia, Sharm el Sheikh, Tabarka, Varadero, Zanzibar)
*British Airways (London-Heathrow)
*Continental Airlines (Newark)
*Corendon Airlines (Antalya)
*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)
*Estonian Air (Tallinn)
*Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
*Eurofly (Agadir, Al Alamain-Dabaa, Antalya, Bodrum, Cairo, Cancún, Colombo, Cork, Hurgada, Luxor, Male, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Mikonos [seasonal] , Mombasa, Puntacana, Santorini [seasonal] , Sharm el Sheikh, Shannon, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar)
*Flybe (Birmingham, Manchester)
*FlyLal (Vilnius)
*Freebird Airlines (Antalya)
*Iran Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
*Icelandair (Reykjavik-Keflavik) [seasonal]
*Israir (Tel Aviv)
*Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
*Jat Airways (Belgrade) [begins October 26]
*Jet4you (Casablanca)
*Karthago (Djerba, Monastir)
*KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
*Libyan Airlines (Tripoli)
*Livingston Energy Flight (Antigua, Banjul, Boavista, Bridgetown, Cancún, Cartagena, Cayo Largo, Dakar, Djerba, Donetsk, Fortaleza, Havana, Holguin, Hurgada, Ilha do Sal, La Romana, Larnaca Luxor, Maceio, Male, Marka, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Natal, Panama City, Phnom-Penh, Phuket, Porto Santo, Portoseguro, Puntacana, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeao, Salvador de Bahia, San Salvador (SV), Sharm el Sheikh, St. Lucia, Tenerife Sur, Varadero, Zanzibar)
*LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
*Lufthansa
**operated by Air Dolomiti (Bucharest-Otopeni [begins February 2009] , Budapest [begins February 2009] , London-Heathrow [begins March 2009] )
*Malev Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
*Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
*Mistral Air (Hurgada, Tel Aviv)
*Montenegro Airlines (Tivat)
*Neos (Agadir, Amman, Antalya, Aqaba, Banjul, Cancún, Cap Skirring, Djerba, Havana, Holguin, Hurgada, Ilha do Sal, La Romana, Larnaca, Malaga, Male, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Merida, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nosy Be, Pointe a Pitre, Puntacana, Ras al Khaimah, Salvador de Bahia, Samana, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar)
*Nouvelair (Djerba, Monastir)
*Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*Qatar Airways (Doha)
*Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
*Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
*Royal Jordanian (Amman)
*Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
*Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
*Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
*SunExpress (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
*Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
*Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus)
*TACV Cabo Verde Airlines (Santa Maria (Sal))
*TAM (São Paulo-Guarulhos)
*TAROM (Cluj Napoca) [ends October 27]
*Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
*Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka, Tunis)
*Turkish Airlines (Antalya [seasonal] , Istanbul-Atatürk)
*Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil)
*Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
*US Airways (Philadelphia)
*Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
*Volare Airlines (Cancun, Colombo, Fortaleza, Havana, Male, Mauritius, Montego Bay, Natal, Salvador de Bahia, Sharm el Sheikh)

Terminal 1-C

under construction

Terminal 2

*easyJet (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brindisi, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Ibiza, Lamezia-Terme [begins October 13] , London-Gatwick, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech, Mykonos, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino [begins November 3] , Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda [begins October 20] )
*Volareweb (Alghero, Athens, Brindisi, Cagliari, Edinburgh [charter] , Heraklion [seasonal] , Ibiza [seasonal] , Karpathos [charter] , Kos [charter] , Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Łódź, Malaga, Malta, Olbia [seasonal] , Palma de Mallorca [seasonal] , Paris-Orly, Pescara, Porto, Rhodes [seasonal] , Skiathos [charter] , Timişoara, Valencia, Warsaw, Wrocŀaw)

Cargo airlines

*Air Atlanta Icelandic
*Alitalia Cargo (Athens, Atlanta, Cairo, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Delhi, Hong Kong, Lagos, Maji, Mexico City, Miami, Mumbai, New York-JFK, Ouagadougou, Shanghai-Pudong, Tripoli, Venice)
*Atlas Air (Lima, S.Maria Azzorre)
*Cargoitalia (Atlanta, Barcelona, Cairo, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Delhi, Dhaka, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Houston-Intercontinental, Lagos, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Shanghai-Pudong)
*Cargolux (Hong Kong, Luxemburg)
*Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong, London-Heathrow)
*China Airlines (Dubai, Taipei-Taoyuan)
*China Cargo Airlines (Amsterdam, Shanghai-Pudong, Urumqi)
*DHL (London-Heathrow)
*Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
*Etihad Crystal Cargo (Abu Dhabi)
*European Air Transport (London-Heathrow)
*FedEx Express (Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Memphis, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Venice)
*Jett8 Airlines Cargo (Amsterdam, Singapore)
*Korean Air (Navoiy, Seoul-Incheon)
*Lufthansa Cargo (Frankfurt)
*Malaysia Airlines (Dubai, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur)
*MNG Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*Nippon Cargo Airlines (Amsterdam, Anchorage, Tokyo-Narita)
*Polar Air Cargo
*Polet Airlines
*Qatar Airways (Doha)
*TAROM Cargo (Bucharest-Otopeni)
*Southern Air (Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK)
*West Air Sweden
*World Airways (Chicago-O'Hare, Mexico City, New York-JFK)

References

External links

* [http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/en Malpensa Airport] , official site
* [http://www.aoc-mxp.com/ Malpensa Airport AOC & USERS Committees MXP Milan]
* [http://www.milan-mxp.airports-guides.com/ Information about Malpensa Airport]
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