Malpensa airport is about 50km from the city, but it’s bigger and allegedly more relaxed

I’m pleased to report that taxi fares to and from both airports have been capped. The maximum from Linate to anywhere in the city of Milan is 25 euros, whatever the taxi meter says. For Malpensa it’s 70 euros. The caps also apply to the reverse journeys.

Malpensa has a lounge which is available before check-in. As you enter the terminal building, the lounge is on the extreme right hand side, just beyond check-in area 1.

I posted some brief details of the excellent restaurant (La Galleria) on my From the keyboard of Dr Jan blog, but here’s a photo.

Unfortunately, the flight to London Heathrow always seems to leave from one of the gates B18-B23, which means there will be a bus which takes you from the terminal building to your plane. There is another lounge though, the Sala Pergolesi, up the special escalator in the satellite building where the buses depart from.
The other problem I had was probably an issue with Alitalia. Once we arrived at Heathrow, the baggage took at least half an hour to start to appear. And this was after queuing to get through a particularly busy passport control. Once the first bag arrived, the rest came out in dribs and drabs, a few bags at a time. Anyone would think there was a single employee handling the baggage all by themselves. I seem to recall a similar thing happening on a previous journey back to Heathrow on Alitalia