Milan Linate Airport (IATA: LIN, ICAO: LIML) is a regional airport located in Milan, the second-largest city and largest urban area of Italy. It served 7,719,977 passengers in 2022 with 101,956 aircraft movements in 2022 making it one of the busiest airports in Italy. It is the third busiest airport in the Milan metropolitan area in terms of passengers numbers after Malpensa Airport and Orio al Serio Airport and the second busiest in terms of aircraft movements.^[3]

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Milan Linate Airport Aeroporto di Milano-Linate
IATA: LIN ICAO: LIML
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	SEA S.p.A
Operator	SEA – Aeroporti di Milano
Serves	Milan metropolitan area
Location	Segrate and Peschiera Borromeo, Lombardy, Italy
Opened	21 October 1937; 86 years ago (1937-10-21)
Focus city for	ITA Airways
Elevation AMSL	353 ft / 108 m
Coordinates	45°26′58″N 009°16′42″E
Website	www.milanolinate-airport.com
Map
LIN Location of airport on map of Milan Show map of Milan LIN LIN (Lombardy) Show map of Lombardy LIN LIN (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17/35 2,442 8,012 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface m ft H1 28 92 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 7,719,977 Passenger change 21-22 77.6% Movements 101,956 Movements change 21-22 51.3% Cargo (tons) 2,353 Cargo change 21-22 24.9%
Source: AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

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Linate Airport features one three-story passenger terminal building. The ground level contains the check-in and separate baggage reclaim facilities as well as service counters and a secondary departure gate area for bus-boarding. The first floor features the main departure area with several shops, restaurants and service facilities. The second floor is used for office space.^[8] The terminal building features five aircraft stands, all of which are equipped with jet-bridges. Several more parking positions are available on the apron which are reached from several bus-boarding gates.^{[citation needed]}

The airport is on level 4+ of the Airport Carbon Accreditation.^[7]

The following airlines operate scheduled services to and from Linate Airport:^[9]

• On 6 December 1948, an Avio Linee Italiane (ALI) Douglas DC-3 crashed on takeoff in fog. All seven occupants died.^[19]
• Linate Airport was the site of the Linate Airport disaster on 8 October 2001, when Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686, which was bound for Copenhagen Airport, collided with a business jet that, in fog, had inadvertently taxied onto the runway already in use. This collision later resulted in criminal legal proceedings against 11 staff including an air traffic controller, flight safety officials and management officials from the airport.^[20] All 114 people on both aircraft were killed, as well as four people on the ground. The Linate Airport disaster remains the deadliest air disaster in Italian history.
• On 1 June 2003, a Learjet 45 operated by Eurojet Italia crashed shortly after takeoff because of birdstrikes affecting both engines and loss of control attempting an emergency landing back at Linate. Both pilots were killed.^[21]
• On 15 June 2005, a light aircraft safely landed on taxiway 'T' after its pilot had mistaken it for runway 36R. Following that incident, a safety recommendation was issued.^[22] It suggested the use of different numbers to help differentiate between runways.^[23] This change was enacted at the beginning of July 2007, when 18R/36L became 17/35 and 18L/36R became 18/36.
• On 3 October 2021, a privately owned Pilatus PC-12 that had just taken off from Linate Airport crashed into an empty building, killing all eight passengers and crew on board. The plane was heading for Olbia on the island of Sardinia, but it came down soon after takeoff on the outskirts of the city near the metro station at San Donato Milanese, near Milan.^[24] The victims included businessman Dan Petrescu, one of the wealthiest people in Romania at the time; his wife, his son, and five others, including a one-year-old baby.^[25][26] Several empty parked cars caught fire after the crash near the metro station, emergency workers said. Firefighters worked to extinguish the flames rising from the building, which was reportedly under reforms.^[27]