Milan Linate Airport

Aeroporto di Milano-Linate "Enrico Forlanini"
Characteristics
ICAO code	LIML
IATA code	LIN
Coordinates	45 ° 26 '42 "  N , 9 ° 16' 36"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '42 "  N , 9 ° 16' 36"  E
Height above MSL	108 m (354  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	7 km east of Milan
Street	Viale Enrico Forlanini
Basic data
opening	1937
operator	SEA
Terminals	1
Passengers	6,570,984 (2019)
Air freight	7,586 t (2019)
Flight movements	85,730 (2019)
Runways
17/35	601 m × 22 m asphalt
18/36	2440 m × 60 m asphalt

The Milan Linate “Enrico Forlanini” airport ( Aeroporto di Milano Linate “Enrico Forlanini” in Italian ; IATA code : LIN , ICAO code : LIML ) is the smaller of the two international airports in the second largest Italian city ​​of Milan after Milan-Malpensa . It mainly serves national and European connections as well as business travel. In 2018, Linate handled over nine million passengers. It is a hub of Alitalia

In addition to Linate and Malpensa, Bergamo Airport, further east, is being marketed as Milan's third commercial airport.

Location and transport links

Milan Linate Airport is on the outskirts and can be quickly reached from the center.

• Bus : every 8 minutes with bus 73 to the city center (Piazza San Babila), travel time approx. 15–20 minutes, every 30 minutes. to the main train station (Stazione Centrale) and five times a day to Malpensa airport; also to Pavia and Brescia .
• Cars : The airport is 6 km east of the city on the Osttangente .
• Metro : Line 4 of the Metropolitana di Milano , currently under construction, will connect the airport with the city.

history

Terminal around 1937

Alitalia Airbus A319 at Milan Linate Airport

Schematic representation of the airport

Milan's first airport was built in 1910 in Taliedo, around two kilometers west of today's Linate Airport. Taliedo was then at the gates of the city. Later, the site of the former airport became the district of Milan.

Gianni Caproni set up production facilities for his aircraft construction company Aeroplani Caproni SA at Taliedo Airport, and other companies in the industry later settled here . After its predominantly military use during the First World War , Taliedo became Milan's most important civil airport. The airline Avio Linee Italiane in particular operated from here .

Since most of the civil air traffic in Italy was operated with flying boats from the mid-1920s , it was decided in 1927, a little further east of Taliedo, near Linate, to create an artificial lake for the operation of these aircraft. Work on the 2500 meter long and up to 450 meter wide lake began in 1928, and in the years that followed, simple handling facilities and smaller administrative buildings were built. Flight operations began in 1930, but with little success, as conventional land planes were generally used again. The lake then served primarily as a venue for water sports events, and today it is an important local recreation area .

In 1932, the then Mayor of Milan proposed to Aviation Minister Italo Balbo to close the Taliedo airfield and to build an airfield on the west bank of the artificial lake of Linate, with which flying boats and land planes should be handled at a joint airport. Work on the new airport began in June 1933. According to the plans of the architect Gianluigi Giordano from Bologna , a two-storey check-in hall was built, according to those of the engineer Arturo Danusso a hangar 235 meters long and 64 meters deep. The airport was inaugurated on October 21, 1937 and named after the Milanese aviation pioneer Enrico Forlanini .

After the military use in World War II , the civil service started again in April 1947. Between 1958 and 1968, major construction work was carried out on behalf of the airport operator SEA: a new passenger terminal, a freight terminal and a new, 2200 meter long runway were built . The passenger terminal was renovated in the 1990s, the taxiways and runway were renewed in 1997 and 2002. In 1997, Linate handled around 15 million passengers.

As of 1998, Linate Airport lost much of its original importance with the opening of the new terminal at Milan Malpensa Airport. Airlines had to be forced by the state to move to the new major Malpensa airport. Following legal disputes, in 2001 scheduled services in Linate were definitively restricted to 18 flight movements per hour and international connections were limited. Also because of this regulation, the importance of Bergamo Airport increased, which is now regarded as the third commercial airport in Milan alongside Linate and Malpensa.

Due to renovation work on runway 18/36, Milan Linate Airport was closed from July 27th to October 27th, 2019. During this period, Linate's commercial flight operations were taken over by the airports of Milan-Malpensa and Bergamo. For Linate, this meant a decrease in annual passenger numbers of around 30 percent.

Airlines and Destinations

Milan Linate Airport is primarily used for domestic flights, but is also served from other European countries, for example from Lufthansa from Frankfurt am Main or from Iberia from Madrid , as it is close to the city center and the resulting very short arrival and departure times is very popular with business travelers. Often there are day-edge connections (outward flight in the morning, return flight in the late afternoon or evening), which enable a one-day stay in Milan.

Traffic figures

Source: Assaeroporti

Source: Assaeroporti

Milan Linate Airport - traffic figures 2000–2019

year	Passenger volume	Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Flight movements
2019	6,570,984	7,586	85,730
2018	9,233,475	12,571	115,301
2017	9,548,363	13,815	117,730
2016	9,682,264	15,365	118,535
2015	9,689,635	15,714	118,650
2014	9,025,978	17,458	113,249
2013	9,034,373	19,614	113,321
2012	9,229,890	19,807	120,463
2011	9,128,522	19,591	122,974
2010	8,359,065	19,062	119,928
2009	8,295,099	17,027	121,376
2008	9,266,152	20.006	131,036
2007	9,926,530	23,498	130.038
2006	9,696,515	27,468	131,615
2005	9,088,607	25,345	122.221
2004	8,947,525	25,635	121,356
2003	8,757,038	24,658	119.311
2002	7,815,316	26,437	110.494
2001	7,136,337	29,153	110,566
2000	6,026,342	22,145	78,077

Incidents

• On November 26, 1940, the Fiat G.18 with the aircraft registration I-ELIO of the Avio Linee Italiane / Regia Aeronautica made a total break on landing at Milan Linate airport. All inmates survived.

• On November 16, 1942 the Fiat G.18 I-ETNA of Avio Linee Italiane SA (ALI) / Regia Aeronautica burned after a break near Milan. In fog, the fuel ran out and the plane made an emergency landing. The entire crew, the only occupants, survived.

• On December 6, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 of Avio Linee Italiane (I-ETNA) had an accident while taking off in fog at Milan Linate Airport. The plane was supposed to fly to Brussels . All 7 inmates were killed.

• On October 8, 2001, a Douglas DC-9-87 from SAS Scandinavian Airlines (registration SE-DMA ) collided with a German business jet of the type Cessna CitationJet (registration D-IEVX ) and then with a cargo building. 118 people were killed, including all occupants of both aircraft and four other people. The investigation report by the Italian authorities cites a combination of poor visibility due to the weather and inadequate equipment and organization of the airport as the causes of the accident. In addition, the Cessna pilots who had been killed and who had mistakenly steered their aircraft onto the main runway in thick fog were found to be insufficiently qualified for flight operations under the given visibility conditions. Several people from the airport administration were sentenced to prison terms by Italian courts. The ground radar , which is not mandatory and which would have prevented the accident, had been out of service since November 1999. It was the worst aviation accident in Italy to date (see: Air accident at Milan-Linate ) .

See also

• List of airports in Italy

Web links

Commons : Milan Linate Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Milan Linate Airport  - Travel Guide

• milanolinate.eu website of Milano Linate Airport (Italian, English)
• SEA SpA Internet presence of the operating company Società per Azioni Esercizi Aeroportuali SEA (Italian, English)
• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Statistiche. In: assaeroporti.com. Assaeroporti , accessed April 26, 2020 (Italian). 
2. ^ Corriere della Sera, September 30, 2018
3. ↑ travelquotidiano.com, October 10, 2018
4. ↑ accident report Fiat G.18 I-ELIO , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 2 June 2020th
5. ↑ accident report Fiat G.18 I-ETNA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 2 June 2020th
6. ^ Accident report DC-3 I-ETNA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 1, 2017.
7. ↑ ANSV Final Report ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 2004  
8. ^ Accident report DC-9-87 SE-DMA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 1, 2017.
9. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2962962.stm
10. ↑ wsws.org - 119 dead in collision at Milan Linate Airport in October 2001