Linate Airport
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Linate Airport (IATA: LIN, ICAO: LIML) is the city airport of Milan, Italy. Due to its vicinity to Milan, it is mainly used for domestic and short-haul international flights, with over 9 million passengers in 2005. This name comes from the small town where it is located. Its real name is "Airport Enrico Forlanini", from the Italian inventor and aereonautical pioneer born in Milan.
Another, larger airport serving Milano is Malpensa International Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC). Linate and Malpensa airports are connected by highways and by service buses.
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 Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, collided with a bizjet that, in fog, had inadvertently taxied onto the runway already in use.
Airlines
Airlines operating flights to the airport include:
- Aegean Airlines(Athens)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Air France (Paris/CDG)
- Air One (Alghero, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Lamezia S.eufemia, Lampedusa, Naples, Palermo, Pantelleria, Pescara, Reggio Calabria, Rome/Fiumicino, Trapani, Trieste)
- Alitalia (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bari, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Frankfurt, Lamezia S.eufemia, London/Heathrow, Madrid, Naples, Palermo, Paris/CDG, Reggio Calabria, Rome/Fiumicino)
- Alitalia Express (Bari, Napoli, Palermo, Rome/Fiumicino)
- Alpi Eagles (Bari)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- bmi(London/Heathrow)
- British Airways (London/Heathrow)
- EasyJet (London/Gatwick, Paris/Orly)
- Eurofly (Bari and Catania)
- Iberia Airlines (Barcelona and Madrid)
- Itali Airlines (Pescara)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Meridiana (Cagliari, Catania, Rome/Fiumicino, Naples, Olbia, Palermo)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
- Volare Airlines (Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Palermo, Paris Orly)
- Windjet (Catania and Palermo)