Linate Airport

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Linate Airport Airport Enrico Forlanini
IATA: LIN – ICAO: LIML
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		SEA - Aeroporti di Milano
Location		Milan, Italy
Elevation AMSL		353 ft / 108 m
Coordinates		45°26′42″N 9°16′36″E / 45.445, 9.27667
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
18L/36R	8,005	2,440	Asphalt
18R/36L	1,972	601	Asphalt

Linate Airport (IATA: LIN, ICAO: LIML) one of the two major airports of Milan, Italy along with Malpensa International Airport. Due to its proximity to Milan compared to Malpensa, it is mainly used for domestic and short-haul international flights, with over 9.6 million passengers in 2006. Its name comes from the small village where it is located in the town of Peschiera Borromeo. Its real name is "Airport Enrico Forlanini", from the Italian inventor and aeronautical 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 next to Idroscalo of Milan in the 1930s when Taliedo Airport (located 1 km from the southern border of Milan), and one of the world's first aerodromes and airports, became too small for commercial traffic. Linate was completely rebuilt in the 1950s and again in the 1980s.

The 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.

Contents 1 Traffic 1.1 2005 1.2 2006 1.3 2007 (January to November) 2 Incidents and accidents 3 Airlines and destinations 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Traffic

[edit] 2005

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

[edit] 2006

• Passengers: 9.696.515 (+6,7%)
• Movements: 131.615 (+7,7%)
• Cargo: 27.468 (+9,7%)

[edit] 2007 (January to November)

• Passengers: 9.206.826 (+2,8%)
• Movements: 120.498 (-1,1%)
• Cargo: 21.751 (-13,7%)

[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. This collision later resulted in criminal legal proceedings.^[1]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Aer Lingus (Dublin)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air One (Alghero, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, London-City, Naples, Palermo, 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)
• Austrian Airlines
  • operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow)
• easyJet (London-Gatwick, Paris-Orly)
• Eurofly (Bari, Catania)
• Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
• ItAli Airlines (Pescara)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Meridiana (Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Olympic Airlines (Athens)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
• TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
• Volare Airlines (Brindisi, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Paris-Orly)
• Windjet (Catania, Palermo)

[edit] External links

• Linate Airport
• Northern Avionics - Business jet maintenance facility at Linate Airport
• Airport information for LIML at World Aero Data

[edit] References