SOUTHOAKCO, in partnership with BARELLI MSFS ADDON, presents Milan Malpensa, Italy.

Milan-Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC) is an Italian intercontinental airport located in the municipalities of Somma Lombardo (Terminal 2), Ferno (Terminal 1) and Lonate Pozzolo (part of the airport) in the province of Varese, in the so-called Altomilanese; is the main airport in Milan. It is managed by Società Esercizi Aeroporti (SEA). It is the second Italian airport for passenger traffic after Rome-Fiumicino Airport, the 9th airport in the world and the 6th place in Europe by number of countries served by direct scheduled flights. In 2022, 21.3 million passengers and 721 254 tons of goods passed through Malpensa airport, confirming the first airport in Italy for freight traffic and the second airport in Italy for passenger traffic.

Together with Linate Airport and Orio al Serio Airport, it forms the Milan airport system with 51.4 million passengers (year 2023), the first airport system in Italy (the second Italian airport system is that of Rome with 44.4 million passengers in 2023). Malpensa is home to several airlines, such as easyjet, Ryanair and Wizz Air; it is the hub for the cargo airline Cargolux Italia and the passenger airline Neos. The airport has two terminals: Terminal 1 is used by scheduled, charter and low cost flights, with the exception of the easyjet company that exclusively uses Terminal 2.

Malpensa Airport is equipped with two parallel runways, both 3,920 metres long and 60 metres wide (ICAO 4F classification), oriented at 349 x. (or 169 x, depending on the direction of use) and 808 m apart; The 17L, 35L and 35R are equipped with ILS and all have the PAPI system. Normally the two runways oriented to 349 x are used. (alternately for departures and arrivals), while the heads 17 are active only in case of particularly unfavorable wind or when there are no planes landing; That’s why planes heading south are being taken off like this, but it’s rare.

CargoCity is the name given to the airport terminal 3 dedicated to cargo flights. Currently, the port of call is confirmed the first in Italy for this type of traffic.