Milan Malpensa Airport

Milan Malpensa Airport
"Silvio Berlusconi"

Aeroporto Internazionale di
Milano-Malpensa "Silvio Berlusconi"
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerSEA S.p.A
OperatorSEA Aeroporti di Milano
ServesMilan metropolitan area
Northern Italy
LocationFerno, Varese, Italy
Opened21 November 1948; 75 years ago (1948-11-21)
Hub for
Focus city forAmazon Air
Operating base for
Built1909–1910
Elevation AMSL234 m / 767 ft
Coordinates45°37′48″N 8°43′23″E / 45.63000°N 8.72306°E / 45.63000; 8.72306
Websitewww.milanomalpensa-airport.com/en
Map
MXP/LIMC is located in Lombardy
MXP/LIMC
MXP/LIMC
Location within Northern Italy
MXP/LIMC is located in Italy
MXP/LIMC
MXP/LIMC
MXP/LIMC (Italy)
MXP/LIMC is located in Europe
MXP/LIMC
MXP/LIMC
MXP/LIMC (Europe)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17L/35R 3,920 12,861 Asphalt
17R/35L 3,920 12,861 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers26.1 millions
Passenger change 22–23Increase 20%
Aircraft movements186,626
Movements change 21–22Increase 57.7%
Cargo tons721,255
Cargo change 21–22Decrease -3.5%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [2]

Milan Malpensa Airport "Silvio Berlusconi" (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC)[3][4][5] is an international airport in Ferno, in the Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy. It is the largest airport in northern Italy, serving Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, as well as the Swiss canton of Ticino. The airport is located 49 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Milan,[6] next to the Ticino river dividing Lombardy and Piedmont. The airport is located inside the Parco naturale lombardo della Valle del Ticino, a nature reserve included by UNESCO in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.[7][8] The airport was opened in 1909 by Giovanni Agusta and Gianni Caproni to test their aircraft prototypes, before switching to civil operation in 1948.

Malpensa Airport is 9th in the world and 6th in Europe for the number of countries served with direct scheduled flights.[9] In 2022, Malpensa Airport handled 21.3 million passengers and was the 23rd busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers and 2nd busiest airport in Italy in terms of passengers after Rome Fiumicino Airport.[10] It is the busiest airport in Italy for freight and cargo, handling 721,254 tons of international freight annually (2022).

Together with Linate Airport and Bergamo Airport, it forms the Milan airport system with 42.2 million passengers in 2022, the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers.[11]

  1. ^ "FedEx Express opens new Malpensa hub". Air Cargo News. 14 February 2017. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Excel 2022.xls" (PDF). assaeroporti.com. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Official website of Milan Malpensa airport, flights, parking and services". www.milanomalpensa-airport.com. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP)". www.airportmalpensa.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  5. ^ Rainews, Redazione di (11 July 2024). "Arriva la conferma dal Mit, l'aeroporto di Malpensa è ufficialmente intitolato a Silvio Berlusconi". RaiNews (in Italian). Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  6. ^ "EAD Basic". Ead.eurocontrol.int. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  7. ^ Parco del Ticino. "Turismo sostenibile". ente.parcoticino.it (in Italian). Parco Lombardo Valle del Ticino. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Ticino, Val Grande Verbano". UNESCO. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  9. ^ Ceresa, Gabriele (15 February 2023). "Malpensa torna tra i primi 10 aeroporti al mondo per Paesi serviti con voli diretti". MALPENSA24 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Dati di traffico - 2022" (PDF). Assaaeroporti. Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroporti. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Statistiche Dati di Traffico Aeroportuale Italiano". Assaeroporti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2023.