Preparations underway at Milano Malpensa Airport for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

Preparations for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

In view of the Winter Olympics, Malpensa airport is preparing to welcome over 400 thousand visitors, 37 thousand and 200 stakeholders with peaks of daily visitors quantified in 55 thousand people and with a management of at least 2,500 oversized bags: at least 50 state flights are expected at Malpensa for the inaugural ceremony.

The Masterplan includes the phased implementation of a series of interventions that concern in particular the expansion of the passenger terminal, new aircraft parking areas, improvements to the runway system with new taxiways and connections to improve the operational efficiency of the airport. In addition, there are new areas intended for intermodal exchange functions and innovative transport methods, the construction of second-line warehouses and other services dedicated to cargo.

Development and sustainability plan

The development plan includes works necessary to manage the traffic demand estimated at 42.8 million passengers in 2035 with a growth of approximately 14 million in the next ten years. In particular, a significant growth in freight traffic is expected for the airport, destined to reach an average volume handled of 1 million tons per year within the next ten years, ten times more than the current one.

“Once again, thanks also to the contribution of SEA, Lombardy’s excellence and concreteness are confirmed and the inspection we did today at the airport was an opportunity to have further proof of this“. This was underlined by the President of the Territorial Commission of the Regional Council of Lombardy, Jonathan Lobati (Forza Italia) who led the delegation of the Regional Commission visiting Malpensa.

Also present were regional councilors Marco Bestetti, Michele Schiavi and Romana Dell’Erba (Brothers of Italy), Giuseppe Licata and Jacopo Dozio (Forza Italia), Pietro Luigi Ponti, Gian Mario Fragomeli, Alfredo Simone Negri and Samuele Astuti (PD).

Alessandro Fidato, Chief Operating Officer of SEA, welcomed the regional delegation and underlined how “the infrastructural interventions that will be carried out, always respecting environmental sustainability, will lead to a further improvement in the efficiency of the airport with the consequent positive effect on the quality of services provided to passengers“.