On 2016-02-23, Giovanni Drogo wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Jesper Lauridsen wrote:

You have to catch which train from Porta Garibaldi ? Long distance have
most moved back to Centrale (at least Italo).

A Frecciarossa to Torino.

I see.

In retrospect I probably would have been better off with the Malpensa
- Torino bus even if I dislike long bus rides.

Or a direct flight to Torino :-)

The airport closest to me with a direct Torino flight is Frankfurt. I could
have done that starting from Billund, but it would have cost me 12 times
more than what I ended up paying.

It's fairly common to have a cluster of hotels near a major airport.

Yes, except that Malpensa is an aborted major airport. And hotels I was
aware of were displaced towards Gallarate and the motorway.

How is it "aborted"? It's the second largest airport in Italy, as big
as Linate and Bergamo put together. It does seem like the major airport
in the region.

Some major infrastructure work (road? rail?) seemed to be going on around
the airport.

Case Nuove
was known in the press as a place become unpleasant to live after the
airport extension because of the noise.

People are still living there, though it's doesn't exactly look thriving
I did see a bakery and a couple of restaurants. Some of the houses might
have been abandoned, it can be hard to see with the outside blinds down.

There's a shuttlebus between the two terminals and it looks like there
are bus stops

In the end I shouldn't have worried. The stops were shown on a big board
at the terminal stop and 3 other passengers on the bus (i.e. half) were
also going to Case Nuove.

http://www.muoversi.regione.lombardia.it/planner/

I don't think a free shuttle bus running between two airport terminals
will show up in a timetable database.

It depends on the kind of authorization it has from the Region. It is
unlikely that a shuttle inside the airport has stops outside !

If it ran inside the airport, Terminal 2 passengers arriving by train
at Terminal 1 would have to check in there and go through security before
being shutlled to Terminal 2, which would defeat the point of having two
terminals.