- IATA
- MXP
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LIMC
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1909
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 31.4M
- in 2025
History & name
Milan Malpensa International Airport opened in 1909, and its names link it to Milan, Busto Arsizio and Cascina Malpensa as well as to Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), the Italian media tycoon and politician. Run by Società Esercizi Aeroportuali SEA, it lies 40 km from Milan and handled 31.4 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterSilvio Berlusconi — Italian media tycoon and politician (1936–2023)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Milan Malpensa International Airport
- Serves
- Milan, Italy
- City centre
- 40 km from Milan
- Opened
- 1909
- Operator
- Società Esercizi Aeroportuali SEA
- Passengers
- 31.4 million in 2025
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,920 m
- Elevation
- 768 ft (234 m)
- Website
- sea-aeroportimilano.it ↗
Where it sits
45.6°N, 8.7°E puts MXP in the northern hemisphere, 5,074 km from the equator and 4,934 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 105th most northerly, which makes it the 557th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 45.6°S, 171.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 1,187 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Milano Linate (LIN), 47 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from MXP
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bucharest, at 1,366 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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