Milan Malpensa & Linate  5-6 July 2008    Dave Anderson, Dave Rose & Ian McMaster

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A summer trip was required, none of us had been to Milan before and a cheap rate with Flybe from Manchester settled the destination. Embraer E190 G-FBEF was our transport both there and back, again none of us had flown the type before, landing ahead of schedule we were soon of to collect the car in the 25deg heat and sunshine. If you wanted to collect numbers only then spotting from McDonalds (not airside) would be fine, you would get anything that moved, photography is no good from inside the terminal. The twin runways 35L & R were in use for the duration of our stay, like most airports they alternate the use, it is a bit frustrating at times as depending on the time of day and runway in use some shots would be directly into sun, however as you can see from the photo's some good results can be obtained. We stayed until 2pm and headed over to Linate, just under an hour's drive away. spotting from the outside is fine and everything outside can be read off, photography of the biz area isn't possible due to fences and there are some points along the runway for landing shots.

Milan Linate Saturday 5th July 2008

Spotting from the outside is fine and everything can be read off, photography of the biz area isn't possible due to fences but there are some points along the runway for landing shots. Not a busy airport but some nice variety, including the long term stored resident Liberian YAK-40, we only stayed for half an hour and headed back to Malpensa for the rest of the day.

Milan Malpensa Sunday 6th July 2008

Following a nice meal, a few beers and a good nights sleep it was up early and back to business, although warm it was a little cloudy today, driving around the perimeter between Terminal 1 & 2 a few biz jets could be seen as well as the police air unit hangar. T2 is used by mainly low cost operators EasyJet and Volareweb, Fedex seem to day stop down here. At the other end of the airfield the huge freight area can be seen from Mcdonalds in T1, but not everything can be read off, we drove to the runway threshold and a spot at the end of 35L allows you to read more of the freight off, this is ideal for landing aircraft only in the afternoon but you can't see any of the departures. A public park opposite the end of 35R allows good pictures of landing / departing aircraft in the morning, heat haze can be a problem you can see all the movements from here the local spotters seemed to congregate here. Staying until about 4pm we headed back to the terminal to check in for our flight home. None of the aircraft noted yesterday are in this list.

After we checked in day turned to night and one almighty thunder and lightening storm closed the airport not before a few Spaniards were launched into it, looked very risky, the storm lasted about 30 minutes and the holding aircraft started to arrive. Our flight was only delayed 45 minutes and we were soon on our way home arriving back at Manchester not too far behind schedule. Milan turned out to be a good choice of destination, a nice variety of airliners not dominated by a national carrier, it did have some quiet spells but as you can see from the list a steady flow of movements. If you need any more info just drop us an email.

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