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Handling at Milan Linate (LIML)

We handle overflight permits, slots, flight plans, fuel, customs and the turnaround at Milan Linate. One coordinator owns the stop at Milan Linate, from the first filing to wheels up.

AERODROME

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ICAO: LIML
IATA: LIN
Elevation: 353 ft
Position: 45.445, 9.277

RUNWAYS

17/352,442 m / 8,012 ftAsphalt

Reference only, not for flight planning. Lengths are full declared runway length rather than declared distances, and this page is not amended on the AIRAC cycle. Check the current AIP and NOTAMs, or ask the desk and we will check them for you.

The field

What LIML is actually like

Linate is Milan's city airport and the closest field to the business district. It runs a dedicated business aviation facility and is the default for anything commercial, financial or fashion related in northern Italy.

Operating brief

What we handle before you file

Permits

Standard Italian EU rules under ENAC. The permit is rarely the issue at Linate; the slot always is.

Slots and parking

Slot coordinated and tightly capped, with business aviation working inside a constrained allocation. Linate is the northern Italian field where a request made late simply does not get in.

Customs and border

Border facilities are on the field and the process is quick, provided the manifest went in on time. Linate has far less slack than Malpensa for fixing a late one.

When it gets tight

Fashion weeks in February and September, the Salone del Mobile in April, and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in early September. Each fills Linate before it fills Milan, and the Salone in particular turns a normal week into one where neither a slot nor a hotel room exists at any price. Requests for those weeks should go in months ahead, not days.

On the ground

Off the aircraft and into the car

Fifteen minutes to the centre of Milan, closer to a business district than any other major field in Europe. That proximity is what people pay for here and it is worth it, right up until the week the slot does not exist.

Alternates

Where we go when LIML will not take the trip

Every one of these is a field we would put to you with the reason attached, not a list of nearby runways.

LIMC
Milan Malpensa
Forty-five minutes further out with far more capacity, and the sensible fallback during fashion week.
LIME
Bergamo Orio al Serio
East of the city, rarely constrained, and closer to Lake Como than Linate is.
LIMB
Milan Bresso
General aviation only, north of the city, for light aircraft.

What we handle here