The Milan metropolitan area is served by three international airports:

• Malpensa Airport is Italy’s second-busiest airport with 24.7 million passengers served in 2018. Malpensa lays 45 km from downtown Milan and is connected to the city by the Malpensa Express railway service.
• Linate Airport, the oldest, is Milan’s city airport, and is now mainly used for domestic and short-haul international flights, serving 9.2 million passengers in 2018.

• Orio al Serio Airport, located some 50 km away, near the town of Bergamo, mainly serves the low-cost traffic of Milan and it is the main base of Ryanair (12.9 million passengers served in 2018).