Linate Airport

Milan Linate Airport Aeroporto di Milano-Linate
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IATA: LIN – ICAO: LIML
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SEA – Aeroporti di Milano
Serves	Milan, Italy
Location	Segrate and Peschiera Borromeo, Lombardy
Focus city for	Alitalia Alitalia CityLiner
Elevation AMSL	ft / 304.8 m
Coordinates
Website	milanolinate-airport.com
Map
LIN Location of airport on map of Milan Location of airport on map of Lombardy LIN Location of Lombardy region in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 2,442 8,012 Asphalt 17/35 601 1,972 Bitumen
Helipads
Number Length Surface m ft H1 28 92 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 9,031,855 Passenger change 13–14 0.0% Aircraft movements 112,804 Movements change 13–14 0.5%
Source: AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics from Assaeroporti

Milan Linate Airport (IATA: LIN, ICAO: LIML) is the secondary international airport of Milan, the second-largest city of Italy, behind Malpensa Airport. It served 9,031,855 passengers in 2014 and is used as a base by Alitalia and Alitalia CityLiner.

History

The airport was built next to Idroscalo of Milan in the 1930s when Taliedo Airport (located 1 km (0.62 mi) from the southern border of Milan), and one of the world's first aerodromes and airports, became too small for commercial traffic. Linate was completely rebuilt in the 1950s and again in the 1980s.

Its name comes from the small village where it is located in the town of Peschiera Borromeo. Its official name is Airport Enrico Forlanini, after the Italian inventor and aeronautical pioneer born in Milan. Linate airport buildings are located in the Segrate Municipality, and the field is located for a large part in the Peschiera Borromeo Municipality.

Due to the political will of the Region of Lombardy and the Italian Government to increase the use of Malpensa Airport, despite Linate's closer proximity to the centre of Milan – only 7 km (4 mi) east of the city centre, compared with Malpensa, which is 49 km (30 mi) northwest of the city centre – its capacity has been reduced by law from 32 slots per hour (technical capacity) down to 22 slots per hour (politically decided capacity) and only domestic or international flights within the EU have been allowed since 2001.

Facilities

Linate Airport features one three-storey passenger terminal building. The ground level contains the check-in and separate baggage reclaim facilities as well as service counters and a secondary departure gate area for bus-boarding. The first floor features the main departure area with several shops, restaurants and service facilities. The second floor is used for office space. The terminal building features five aircraft stands, all of which are equipped with jet-bridges. Several more parking positions are available on the apron which are reached from several bus-boarding gates.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate scheduled services to and from Linate Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta	Malta
Alitalia	Alghero, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Brindisi, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cagliari, Catania, Comiso, Düsseldorf, Lamezia Terme, London-Heathrow, Naples, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Athens, Bordeaux, Corfu, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lampedusa, Menorca, Mykonos, Pantelleria, Prague, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Warsaw-Chopin
Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner	Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Comiso, Frankfurt, London-City, Naples, Pescara, Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Split
Alitalia operated by Mistral Air	Trieste
Blue Air	Bucharest-Otopeni
Blu-express operated by Blue Panorama Airlines	Reggio Calabria
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
easyJet	Amsterdam, London-Gatwick, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly
Iberia	Madrid
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Meridiana	Catania, Munich, Naples, Olbia Seasonal: Ibiza, Mykonos, Patras, Rhodes
Niki	Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines	Stockholm-Arlanda
Silver Air	Seasonal: Elba

Statistics

Check-in area

Apron view

Busiest domestic routes from Linate (2014) Rank City Passengers Airline 1 Rome-Fiumicino, Lazio 1,455,244 Alitalia, easyJet 2 Catania, Sicily 713,296 Alitalia, Meridiana 3 Naples, Campania 635,221 Alitalia, Meridiana 4 Cagliari, Sardinia 445,353 Alitalia 5 Bari, Apulia 362,157 Alitalia 6 Palermo, Sicily 314,202 Alitalia 7 Olbia, Sardinia 271,216 Meridiana 8 Brindisi, Apulia 234,397 Alitalia 9 Lamezia Terme, Calabria 230,724 Alitalia 10 Reggio Calabria, Calabria 183,256 Alitalia, Blu-express 11 Alghero, Sardinia 135,818 Alitalia

Busiest European routes from Linate (2014) Rank City Passengers Airline 1 London-Heathrow, United Kingdom 692,175 Alitalia, British Airways 2 Paris-Charles de Gaulle, France 637,558 Air France, Alitalia 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands 548,161 Alitalia, KLM 4 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 410,223 Alitalia, Lufthansa 5 Paris-Orly, France 263,979 Alitalia, easyJet 6 Brussels, Belgium 228,193 Alitalia, Brussels Airlines 7 Madrid, Spain 200,810 Iberia 8 London-City, United Kingdom 144,970 Alitalia 9 London-Gatwick, United Kingdom 108,848 easyJet 10 Dublin, Ireland 92,997 Aer Lingus 11 Vienna, Austria 84,613 Niki 12 Stockholm-Arlanda, Sweden 82,032 Scandinavian Airlines 13 Barcelona, Spain 78,967 Alitalia 14 Bucharest, Romania 67,911 Alitalia 15 Berlin-Tegel, Germany 63,865 Alitalia, Air Berlin

Incidents and accidents

• Linate Airport was the site of the Linate Airport disaster on 8 October 2001, when Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686, which was bound for Copenhagen Airport, collided with a business jet that, in fog, had inadvertently taxied onto the runway already in use. This collision later resulted in criminal legal proceedings against 11 staff including an air traffic controller, flight safety officials and management officials from the airport.

• On 15 June 2005, a light aircraft safely landed on taxiway 'T' after its pilot had mistaken it for runway 36R. Following that incident, a safety recommendation was issued. It suggested the use of different numbers to help differentiate between runways. This change was enacted at the beginning of July 2007, when 18R/36L became 17/35 and 18L/36R became 18/36.

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for LIN at Aviation Safety Network