Back مطار مالبينسا Arabic مطار مالبينسا ARZ Aeropuertu de Milán-Malpensa AST Aeroport de Milà-Malpensa Catalan Milano Malpensa Airport CEB Letiště Malpensa Czech Milano Malpensa Airport Danish Flughafen Mailand-Malpensa German Αεροδρόμιο Μαλπένσα Greek Flughaveno Milano Malpensa Esperanto
Milan Malpensa Airport "Silvio Berlusconi" Aeroporto Internazionale di Milano-Malpensa "Silvio Berlusconi" | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | SEA S.p.A | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | SEA Aeroporti di Milano | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Milan metropolitan area Northern Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Ferno, Varese, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 21 November 1948 | ||||||||||||||
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| Focus city for | Amazon Air | ||||||||||||||
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| Built | 1909–1910 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 234 m / 767 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°37′48″N 8°43′23″E / 45.63000°N 8.72306°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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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]
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- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.
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- ^ "Statistiche Dati di Traffico Aeroportuale Italiano". Assaeroporti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2023.