Milan Malpensa Airport
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) 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, 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 Airport, it forms the Milan airport system with 56.9 million passengers in 2024, the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers.