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[ Airports ]October 28, 2019 12:00 am ET
By Vanni Gibertini

Milan Linate Airport Reopens After Maintenance Shutdown

At 6:02 p.m. on Satuday, Alitalia flight AZ2092 from Rome landed at Milan Linate Airport. It was the first flight to land at Milan’s city airport after a three-month closure to allow the resurfacing of the runway and some upgrade works to the terminal building and the baggage handling system. The airport, which in 2018 handled almost 10 million passengers, shut down on July 27 and all operations were transferred to Milan's Malpensa Airport, some 32 miles northwest of the…

[ Airports ]July 26, 2019 6:00 am ET
By Vanni Gibertini

Milan’s Linate Airport Temporarily Shuts Down, Flights Relocated to Malpensa

The city of Milan this weekend will lose one of its airports for the next three months. Airport “Enrico Forlanini” in Milan-Linate will suspend all commercial operation in the evening of Friday, July 26, when flight AZ1771 to Palermo, Sicily, scheduled to depart at 10.25 p.m., will be the last…