Milan Malpensa Airport
Milan metropolitan area, Northern Italy, Canton of Ticino (Switzerland)
- IATAMXP
- ICAOLIMC
- Serves
- Milan metropolitan area, Northern Italy, Canton of Ticino (Switzerland)
- Operator
- SEA Aeroporti di Milano
- Owner
- SEA S.p.A
- Opened
- 21 November 1948
- Elevation
- 767 ft (234 m)
- Runways
- 2 (longest 3,920 m)
- Airlines based here
- Cargolux Italia, DHL Aviation, FedEx Express
About the airport
Milan Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC) 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. It is located 49 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Milan, 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. 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 ninth in the world and sixth in Europe for the number of countries served with direct flights. In 2024, Malpensa Airport handled 28.5 million passengers and was the 22nd-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers and second-busiest airport in Italy in terms of passengers after Rome Fiumicino Airport. It is the busiest airport in Italy for freight and cargo, handling over 730,000 tons of international freight annually (2024). Together with Milan Bergamo Airport and Milan Linate…
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.