Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)

Milan has 2 airports, Linate and Malpenza. I have recently flown into Malpenza which is about 45 kilometres from Milan on the North Western side. As such we are not exactly in Milan. I suppose having flown from Manchester the same could be said of my destination point. Manchester airport is not exactly in Milan either or Manchester for that matter. What Milan shares with many European airports is that it sits as part of an integrated transport system. The fact that it is outside the city does not matter as buses leave every 20 minutes for the city centre and the train station to Milan beautiful Stazione Centrale is below the airport. If you have to taxi then finding oe ...

Milano Malpensa Airport is owned and operated by SEA-Aeroporti di Milano. It is 50 km from the Milan city centre and by car you take about 45 minutes, unless you go during the peak hours. To get there from Milan you simply take the Autostrada 8 dei Laghi (A 8 motorway), you follow the signs to Malpensa and you exit at Busto Arsizio, you then follow the Strada Statale 336 (SS 336, like an A road in UK) and you then follow the signs to go to Terminal 1 or 2. By train from Milan it takes 40 minutes and a very good Malpensa Express (www.malpensaexpress.it) service operates every 30 minutes from Milano Nord Cadorna station (which is NOT the central station of Milan ...

If you put “mal pensa” into altavista’s translation page, and click on Italian to English, it gives you a rather unreasurring “badly it thinks” as it meaning. I know this because yesterday I had a day off work, I’d been to the gym, I’d been shopping, I’d done my laundry and I’d read the paper so, with nothing better to do, I went over to our computer cluster and surfed for a while. Flying to Italy two days after my last A Level exam last year, I didn’t have a choice of airports in Milan – although there are two in the city, BA (and after the previous op, who else would I chose to fly with?) only ...