Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)

I use Flybe from Birmigham to pass through Milan on my way to Geneva. I am always pleased to have passed through here as there is nothing to recommend the airport. Once through check in I always go straight to the Flybe business lounge so I can pretend I am elsewhere - it is teh ex BA lounge. You can get a drink sandwich and a paper and relax away from the dirtyness of the airport Food choice is limited and not very good, staff is not helpful at best. When you do check in with flybe you are in an annex away from the main area right next to ElAl Israel airlines check in. When this desk is open you will see a large number of no nonsense armed police / army types. ...  Read the complete review

Although Malpensa is normally referred to as one of the 2 Milan airports, it is not in the area of Milan, and it is 40 kilometres away from the City. I have used Malpensa few times because I have friends near Lago Maggiore, which is quite close to this airport. Landing at Malpensa you are normally taken by bus to the terminal. I found that luggage was delivered quite fast. My friends picked me up, they normally wait for me outside the arrivals area, although this is technically not allowed. The owners of the airport want you to park the car in the parking, and at 4 Euros per hour, starting from the 1st minute, cheap it is not. Taxis to Milan will ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review