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Post by biggiraffe on Aug 10, 2006 20:24:53 GMT -5
Hello,
There are three or more airports in Milan, Italy. Which of the three were used by commercial airlines in the 1970's?
Thanks,
Kurt
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Post by rpm on Aug 11, 2006 9:20:34 GMT -5
It depends on the airline in question. For instance in the 1970's Air France used mostly Charles DE Gaulle (LFPG) in Paris, but alot of "foreign" carriers used Orly (LFPO).
RPM.
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Post by 727pilot on Aug 11, 2006 9:33:40 GMT -5
Err, I thought we were talking about MILAN, not Paris...  Kurt, as far as I know Milan-Malpensa was opened in the mid-90s as the new international airport. It's about 45 kilometres from the city-centre. Before that Milan-Linate was the main airport - nowadays it is used mostly by national carriers. Kind regards! Michael |
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Post by rpm on Aug 11, 2006 13:14:06 GMT -5
Yes, It seems in the 70's Linate was the"main" airport in Milan. Although Alitalia used both. Some carriers like TWA and Viasa used Malpensa however. It seems most of Alitalia's North and South American flights used Malpensa as well. As far as I can tell all of the European carriers used Linate.
RPM.
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Post by biggiraffe on Aug 11, 2006 16:13:02 GMT -5
Uh oh, nothing is ever easy, is it? Thanks for the info, Gentlemen.
Take care,
Kurt
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Aug 11, 2006 20:34:42 GMT -5
Err, I thought we were talking about MILAN, not Paris... Kurt, as far as I know Milan-Malpensa was opened in the mid-90s as the new international airport. It's about 45 kilometres from the city-centre. Before that Milan-Linate was the main airport - nowadays it is used mostly by national carriers. Kind regards! Michael Malpensa dates to before the mod-1990's, I believe. As I recall, it opened sometime in the late 1960's when the trend was to build 'super airports' far from city centers to handle jumbo jets and the projected growth in traffic, which bit a lot of locales in the you-know-what when the downturn in air travel occurred with the 1970 recession, then the oil crunch, and the harsh realization that jumbos would not be profitable except on long-range routes - save for a handful of markets, like Japan. Case in point of one of the 'super airport' failures is Montreal-Mirabel, which has been desolate for years, save for a handful of scheduled flights, charters, and cargo - but it never grabbed away the traffic from Dorval (Trudeau). Others, like Washington-Dulles and Houston-Intercontinental struggled for a while, but eventually urban growth made them highly successful. When I was with American in the mid-1990's, Malpensa was a real thorn in our sides because the Italian government would not grant us rights into Rome, all our planes had to go to Malpensa. And Alitalia did not fly out of MXP to Rome (at least not on flights we had access to in SABRE), so passengers had to take an often-late bus ride to Linate to get an (highly overpriced) Alitalia flight. But then, competition opened up in Italy and the Malpensa2000 project kicked in, which redid the airport and made it so much easier to route passengers within Italy. |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Aug 11, 2006 20:39:59 GMT -5
Uh oh, nothing is ever easy, is it? Thanks for the info, Gentlemen. Take care, Kurt I got your comparison - certain airlines used Malpensa while others used Linate (or both) - same as some used DeGaulle and others used Orly. |
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