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Linate Airport
Airport Directory » Italy » Milan » Linate AirportLinate Airport (IATA: LIN, ICAO: LIML) is 1 of the 2 leading airports of Milan, Italy, alongside with Malpensa Airport. Due to its closer propinquity to Milan compared with Malpensa, it is chiefly used for domestic help and short-haul international voyages, with over 9.6 million riders in 2006. Its name come up from the little small town where it is turn up in the city of Peschiera Borromeo. Its existent name is "Airport Enrico Forlanini", after the Italian artificer and aeronautic open up born in Milan. Linate airport constructions are turn up in the Segrate Municipality, and the field is turn up for a big division in the Peschiera Borromeo Municipality.
It was made next to Idroscalo of Milan in the 1930s when Taliedo Airport (turn up one kilometre from the southern boundary line of Milan), and 1 of the world's 1st airports and airports, got to a fault little for commercial traffic. Linate was entirely reconstructed in the 1950s and once again in the 1980s.
The bigger airport assisting Milan is Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC). Linate and Malpensa airports are linked by main road and by service passenger vehicle. The 3rd airport of the Greater Milan area is Orio al Serio, turn up one kilometre east of Bergamo, 42 kilometre east of Milan.
The right orthoepy of Linate is "/li'nate/" (lee-NAH-teh), and not "/laj'nate/" (ly-NAH-teh). Using the incorrect orthoepy influence guide to misinterpretations with cab drivers, because Lainate ("/laj'nate/") is another borough near Milan.
Traffic
2005
- Passengers: 9,088,607
- Movements: 122,221
- Cargo: 25,345 short ton
2006
- Passengers: 9,696,515 (+6.7%)
- Movements: 131,615 (+7.7%)
- Cargo: 27.468 (+9.7%)
2007 (January to November)
- Passengers: 9,206,826 (+2.8%)
- Movements: 120,498 (-1.1%)
- Cargo: 21,751 (-13.7%)
Incidents and accidents
- Linate Airport was the location of the Linate Airport calamity on eight October 2001, when Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686, which was hold fast for Copenhagen Airport, collided with a business jet plane that, in fog, had unknowingly cabbed onto the landing track already in use. This hit after ensued in crook legal legal proceeding.
- On June 15 2005, a visible light aircraft safely district on taxi strip 'T' after its airplane pilot had misidentified it for landing track 36R. Following that incident, a safety recommendation was bring out. It proposed the use of different figure to assist severalise between landing track. This modify was ordained at the get down of July 2007, when 18R/36L got 17/35 and 18L/36R got 18/36.
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