Milan. Linate welcomes the first flight after a three-month stop

The reopening party

The flight, as customary for the first at the reopening of a port of call, was greeted by the baptism of water: the fire brigade entwined two jets of water from two fire engines on the aircraft. In the evening, until after 11 pm, about twenty flights are scheduled to land, all of which are not including a Lufthansa. For today, a day that constitutes a sort of general test, only arrivals are expected. Departures from the second Milanese airport will resume tomorrow with a Lufthansa flight at 6.30am: a hundred flights a day, before Linate returns to full speed, starting Monday.

The first passengers disembark

Passengers of the "inaugural" journey were welcomed by Infrastructure Minister Paola De Micheli, Mayor Giuseppe Sala, and the heads of the company that manages the airports in the Lombard capital (Sea), Armando Brunini and Michaela Castelli. Greetings place, the hangar that will still host the boarding gates for some time. The works at Linate have not been completed: for now, a redone track and a new baggage handling system. The complete restyling of the interiors will continue until 2021.