Milan Linate Airport is the secondary international airport of Milan, after Malpensa Airport. The airport is located only 7 km south of Milan's city center, while Malpensa Airport is 50 km away. For that reason many airlines and passengers preferred to use Linate Airport. In 2001 it was decided by the government that the capacity of Linate Airport should be reduced from 32 flights per hour to 22 and only to destinations within the EU. Still, with close to 10 million passengers a year, it is still the third-busiest airport in Italy.
Linate Airport was in 2001 the scene of the deadliest aviation disaster in Italian history when a passenger jet from Scandinavian Airlines collided with a business jet which, in heavy fog, accidentally taxied on a runway already in use, resulting in the deaths of all (114) passengers on both planes.
Milan Linate Airport is not a large airport so there are not many flights departing here. There are only a few destinations that you can reach from Milan Linate Airport, most of these are operated by easyJet. Many people take a flight to Lisbon and transfer to another flight there.
Lisbon (LIS)