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Milano Linate Airport (LIN)

Milano Linate Airport (LIN, LIML) serves Milan, Italy. Flights leaving LIN left an average of 10.4 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 11th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 11.6 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Rome.

Delays at LIN

Average departure delay per flight: 10.4 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (15.3 min) and lightest in March (7.2 min).

Average departure delay per flight from LIN, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202511.4 min4,775
September 202514.2 min5,595
October 20259.3 min5,205
November 20258.0 min4,797
December 20259.4 min4,911
January 20268.8 min4,722
February 20268.5 min4,659
March 20267.2 min5,303
April 20267.8 min5,623
May 20269.2 min5,576
June 202614.6 min5,647
July 202615.3 min5,743

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.5% of arrivals at LIN for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (94% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at LIN

11,624,395 passengers used LIN in the twelve months to May 2026, on 108,950 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at LIN, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 20251,000,8139,231
July 20251,020,3139,401
August 2025955,5848,465
September 2025996,9609,626
October 2025962,6929,097
November 2025927,3748,615
December 2025937,6598,859
January 2026856,1958,468
February 2026845,9428,173
March 2026983,7729,368
April 20261,077,2619,906
May 20261,059,8309,741

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from LIN

  1. Rome (FCO)1,054,322 passengers
  2. Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA)915,816 passengers
  3. Paris (CDG)758,793 passengers
  4. Cagliari Elmas (CAG)630,769 passengers
  5. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)630,511 passengers
  6. Palermo (PMO)584,949 passengers
  7. Bari Karol Wojtyła (BRI)533,546 passengers
  8. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)494,005 passengers
  9. Naples (NAP)482,857 passengers
  10. London Heathrow (LHR)476,974 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Milan (LIN)?
Flights leaving LIN left an average of 10.4 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 11th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at LIN?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 15.3 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (7.2 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at LIN?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At LIN in the last year the biggest cause was weather (94% of those minutes), then airport capacity (6%).

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