y (e.g Naples, Rome, Florence, Bologna). These trains after calling at Milano centrale will go to Malpensa airport terminal 1. Standard fares from Milano Centrale to Malpensa airport T1 (or vice versa) are €13 in 2nd class, €16 in 1st class. As middle September 2010, there are just two service per direction per day. Departure times from Malpensa airport terminal 1: 12.21, 18.10 journey time 42 min; from Milano centrale: 08.57, 15.57 journey time: 54 min. (Note: these services are in addiction to the Malpensa Express train service to Milano Centrale, see above. Note that ticket are not interchangeable between the two type of trains).
Linate airport
Some European or national flights arrive at Linate Airport (IATA: LIN). This small but rather efficient one-runway airport is very close to the city centre (7 km). It is mostly serviced by airlines to domestic destinations and some European destinations. After the bankruptcy of the 'old' Alitalia and its merger with AirOne, the new airline abandoned Malpensa in favour of Linate.
• Taking connecting flights in Linate might take much longer than elsewhere because there is no through passage: you get off the airplane, get out of the security area, go through security again together with those passengers who have just arrived from Milan and not with a connecting flight, and only then can you board the new plane. If you're taking a connection from abroad it doesn't make much difference, because in these cases you have to go through security again (say, London to Palermo via Rome Fiumicino), but if both flights are domestic then you don't have to go through security again if the airport has a through passage (e.g. Palermo to Genova via Rome Fiumicino). This is common in most countries: the rationale is that apparently no one seems to trust security checks performed by other countries!
• Since the airport is so close to the city, it is served by buses of
