Milan Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP) is an international airport in Ferno near Gallarate in the Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy. It is the largest airport in northern Italy, serving Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, as well as the Swiss canton of Ticino. The airport is located 49 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Milan,[5] next to the Ticino river dividing Lombardy and Piedmont. The airport is located inside the Parco Naturale Lombardo della Valle del Ticino, a nature reserve included by UNESCO in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The airport was opened in 1909 by Giovanni Agusta and Gianni Caproni to test their aircraft prototypes, before switching to civil operation in 1948.

Malpensa Airport is the 2nd busiest airport in Italy in terms of passengers after Rome Fiumicino Airport. Together with Linate Airport and Bergamo Airport, it forms the Milan airport system which is the largest in Italy by number of passengers.

Malpensa Airport has two passenger terminals and they are connected by free airport shuttle buses and trains.
 

Terminal 1: It opened in 1998, and is the newer, larger and more prominent terminal. The terminal is divided into three sections and handles most passengers on scheduled as well as charter flights:

• A handles domestic and intra-Schengen flights.
• B handles non-Schengen and intercontinental flights.
• C (B2), opened in January 2012, handles non-Schengen, intercontinental flights and security-sensitive flights to the USA and Israel.
   

Terminal 2: it is the older terminal. It was previously used exclusively by easyJet.  All charter services, which were previously based in this terminal, moved to Terminal 1 upon its opening, making easyJet its sole tenant.