For the first take-offs, therefore, we must wait for July 15th. Alitalia will not start operating in the Milan city airport until 24 July
Alitalia it will start operating in the Milan city airport only from 24 July and will resume its routes starting from the connections of the Territorial Continuity with Sardinia and then return from 1 August with the national and international routes that until that date have been moved to Malpensa.
On the 13th, the day of the reopening, therefore, ground staff, SEA employees, law enforcement and even merchants and bartenders will return to work in Linate but there will be no passengers, except those of private flights that have been operating for some time. From Wednesday, there are currently 4 take-offs and 4 landings per day for Lufthansa, Iberia and Air Malta.
Malpensa has always kept one of its two terminals open throughout the lockdown period, first T2 and then, from 15 June, T1 which seemed to be sufficient to absorb the reduced air traffic of the post-pandemic summer, also because in Linate they are ongoing work (and will continue until 2021) on the modernization works with construction sites within the airport that reduce space and, consequently, the possibility of respecting the distances imposed by the rules for coronavirus.
“We wonder if it makes sense to reopen a terminal to keep it empty,” said Alessandro Fidato, Sea’s chief operation officer during an audition in the Region, at the end of June, and the Municipality of Milan, which is SEA majority shareholder, Skeptical was said about the usefulness of reopening the city airport: “We cannot bear all the costs”, warned the mayor Giuseppe Sala, but Mit and ENAC have decided for the reopening with an operation of 5 arriving and 5 departing flights hourly. Numbers that at least in July will be difficult to reach as the same airlines have already moved part of the flights they had put on sale from Linate to Malpensa and Orio al Serio.
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