Linate Airport

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Linate Airport
IATA: LIN - ICAO: LIML
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">SEA - Aeroporti di Milano</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Milan</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		353 ft (108 m)
Coordinates		45°26′42″N, 9°16′36″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18L/36R	8,005	2,440	Asphalt
18R/36L	1,972	601	Asphalt

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 village where it is located. Its real name is "Airport Enrico Forlanini", from the Italian inventor and aereonautical 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. It was built in the 1930s (and completely rebuilt in the 1950s and in the 1980s), when the Taliedo Airport (located 1 km southern inside Milan borders, and one of the world first aerodrome and then airport) became too small for the commercial traffic.

Another, larger airport serving Milan is Malpensa International Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC). Linate and Malpensa airports are connected by highways and by service buses. The third airport of the Greater Milan area is Orio al Serio, located 1 km east of Bergamo, 42 km east of Milan.

1 Traffic statistics for 2005
2 JAN-OCT 2006 Traffic
3 Incidents and accidents
4 Airlines and destinations
5 External links

[edit] Traffic statistics for 2005

Passengers: 9.088.607
Movements: 122,221
Cargo: 25,345 tons

[edit] JAN-OCT 2006 Traffic

Passengers: 8.225.860 (+8,1%)
Movements: 110.727 (+8,0%)
Cargo: 22.656 (+9,9%)

[edit] 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 business jet that, in fog, had inadvertently taxied onto the runway already in use.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aegean Airlines (Athens)
Aer Lingus (Dublin)
Air France (Paris-Charles De Gaulle)
Air One (Alghero, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, London-City, Naples, Palermo, Pantelleria, Pescara, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino, Trapani, Trieste)
Alitalia (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bari, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Frankfurt, Lamezia Terme, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Naples, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino)
- operated by Alitalia Express (Bari, Catania, London-Heathrow, Napoli, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino)
Alpi Eagles (Bari)
Austrian Airlines
- operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
easyJet (London-Gatwick, Paris-Orly)
Eurofly (Bari, Catania)
Iberia Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid)
ItAli Airlines (Pescara)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Meridiana (Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Olympic Airlines (Athens)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
Volare Airlines (Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Palermo, Paris-Orly)
Windjet (Catania, Palermo)