Flight compensation from Milan Linate Airport
- IATA LIN — Milan's city airport, roughly 8 km east of the Duomo.
- Traffic is restricted by law, with a cap on movements and limits on which routes may be served.
- Metro line M4 now runs from the terminal into central Milan.
Linate is the compact, business-focused counterpart to Malpensa, with a single terminal and a route network shaped by decades of Italian rules limiting its slots and destinations. ITA Airways dominates, above all on the shuttle to Rome Fiumicino, alongside short-haul European carriers serving business markets. The airport closed for three months in 2019 for a full runway and terminal overhaul, and the M4 metro has since put the city centre little more than a dozen minutes away.
Your passenger rights
Linate is an EU departure airport, so EC 261/2004 covers every flight leaving it. Most of the network — Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, London — sits in the €250 band, with €400 reserved for the few longer intra-EU routes. If your flight is cancelled and the airline moves you onto a departure from Malpensa instead, that counts as re-routing via a different airport and it must bear the cost of getting you between the two.
Tips for claiming
The Rome shuttle runs close to hourly, so an airline that leaves you waiting half a day has probably failed its re-routing duty — ask for the next available seat on any carrier. Business travellers often accept a rebooking and forget the claim, yet compensation is still payable even if you made your meeting, provided you reached your destination three hours or more late. Keep the original booking confirmation, since it shows the scheduled arrival time the claim is measured against.
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