Wikimania 2016 bids/Esino Lario/Airlines

The most convenient airports to plan your trip to Esino Lario are Milano Malpensa (MXP), Milano Linate (LIN) and Milano-Bergamo Orio al Serio (BGY). There are quite a few low cost flights in particular from Italy and Europe; have a look also at Mediana airlines for low cost flights from Africa.

During Wikimania Esino Lario a direct bus service between the airports and Esino Lario is organized. Please note that once you have arrived in Esino Lario everything is within walking distance: differently from big cities in which you need to take public transport to reach your accommodation or the venue, in Esino Lario accommodation and the venues are all there, located in the near surroundings. Direct buses from the airports take the Valsassina road and carry up to 50 people each. Other options to reach Esino Lario from the airports are public transport (please find below the directions) and car rental.

Airport	Typology	Directions with public transport	Time with public transport	Price public transport^[1]	Time by car/direct bus^[2]
Milano Malpensa Terminal 1 (MXP)	International airport, long distance-European and national flights.	From Milano Malpensa Terminal 2 to Milano Centrale by train (43-52 minutes, every 37 minutes or every hour, 10 €^[3]) by bus (50 minutes, buses every 20 minutes, 10€ one-way, 16€ return ticket^[4]). From Milano Centrale to Varenna-Esino by train (1 hour, trains every hour, 6.45€). From Varenna-Esino to Esino Lario by bus (40 minutes, 2.40€).	2.5 hours	18.85€	2h
Milano Malpensa Terminal 2 (MXP)	International airport, European and national flights, low cost flights.	From Milano Malpensa Terminal 1 to Milano Centrale by bus (50 minutes, buses every 20 minutes, 10€ one-way, 16€ return ticket^[5]). From Milano Centrale to Varenna-Esino by train (1 hour, trains every hour, 6.45€). From Varenna-Esino to Esino Lario by bus (40 minutes, 2.40€).	2.5 hours	18.85€	2h
Milano Linate (LIN)	International airport, mainly European and national flights.	From Milano Linate to Milano Centrale by bus (25 minutes, buses every 30 minutes, 5€ one-way, 9€ two ways ticket). From Milano Centrale to Varenna-Esino by train (1 hour, trains every hour, 6.45€). From Varenna-Esino to Esino by bus (40 minutes, 2.40€).	2 hours	13.85€	1h30
Milano-Bergamo Orio al Serio (BGY)	Mainly low cost flights.	ATB bus form the airport to Bergamo railway station (10 minutes, 2€^[6]). Form Bergamo di Varenna-Esino by train - change in Lecco (Bergamo-Lecco 40 minutes, trains every hour; Lecco-Varenna-Esino, 21 or 37 minutes; trains every hour; total cost of the ticket 5.30€). From Varenna-Esino to Esino by bus (40 minutes, 2,40€).	2 hours	9.70€	1h40

Estimated costs

To provide an idea of the costs, we report below fares referenced with a departure date in 20 June 2014 from the origin airport, with a return trip leaving Esino Lario on the 30 June 2014 (round trip ticket).

Europe

From	Airline	Airport	Price (USD)	Flight Time	Stops	Notes
Europe

Zurich	Swiss	Airport	$150	1hr	0
Frankfurt	Alitalia	Airport	$161	1hr15	0
Paris (BVA)	Ryanair	Airport	$100	1hr20	0
Vienna	Niki	Airport	$122	1hr20	0
Prague	Czech Airline	Airport	$115	1hr25	0
Brussels (CRL)	Ryanair	Airport	$95	1hr30	0
Budapest	Ryanair	Airport	$123	1hr30	0
Paris (CDG)	Easyjet	Airport	$105	1hr30	0
Amsterdam	Easyjet	Airport	$150	1hr40	0
Berlin	Easyjet	Airport	$105	1hr45	0
Belgrade	Easyjet	Airport	$90	1hr45	0
Copenhagen	Easyjet	Airport	$135	2hr	0
London (STN)	Ryanair	Airport	$20	2hr	0
London (LGW)	Easyjet	Airport	$150	2hr	0
Barcelona	Ryanair	Airport	$100	2hr	0
Sofia	Bulgaria Air	Airport	$240	2hr	0
Warsaw	Ryanair	Airport	$87	2hr10	0
Bucarest	Blue Air	Airport	$95	2hr15	0
Madrid	Ryanair	Airport	$112	2hr20	0
Athens	Ryanair	Airport	$149	2hr25	0
Dublin	Ryanair	Airport	$319	2hr30	0
Lisbon	Easyjet	Airport	$153	2hr30	0
Stockholm	Ryanair	Airport	$146	2hr50	0
Moscow (SVO)	Alitalia	Airport	$552	3hr45	0
Skopje	JAT	Airport	$414	4hr	1	via Belgrade
Helsinki	Finnair (AY) KLM	Airport	$388 $301	3hr 7hr	0 1	via Amsterdam (AMS)
Tallinn	Lufthansa	Airport	$279	4hr45	1	via Frankfurt (FRA)
Kiev	Air France	Airport	$260	7hr	1	via Paris
Moscow (DME)	Air Berlin	Airport	$331	9hr	1	via Dusseldorf
Oslo	Air Baltic	Airport	$345	11hr	1	via Riga
Tbilisi	Alitalia Ukraine International Airlines	Airport	$442 $434	7hr 8hr	1 1	via Rome via Kiev

Asia

From	Airline	Price (USD)	Flight Time	Stops	Notes
Asia-Pacific

Tokyo (Narita)	Air China (CA)	$880	17hr	1	via Beijing (PEK)
Dubai	Pegasus Airlines Emirates(EK)	$561,49 $1055,29	12hr 7hr	1 0	via Istanbul(SAW)
Singapore	Swiss Singapore (SQ)	$1294,24 $1392,66	15hr 12hr	1 0	via Zurich(ZRH)
Seoul (Incheon)	Aeroflot	$1183,98	17hr	1	via Moscow(SVO)
Beijing	Air China (CA) Aeroflot	$1286,60 $1092,40	12hr 16hr	1	via Moscow(SVO)
Taipei	Air China (CA) KLM	$1050 $1500	20hr	1 1	via Placerville (PVG) via Amsterdam (AMS)
Kathmandu	Turkish Airlines	$737	12hr	1	via Istanbul (SAW)
Kuala Lumpur	Air France	$1044	17hr	1	via Paris (CDG)
Manila	Emirates	$1099	18hr	1	via Dubai (DXB)
Jakarta	KLM	$1143	20hr	1	via Amsterdam (AMS)
Mumbai (Bombay)	Lufthansa	$824	11hr	1	via Munich (MUC)
Delhi	Turkish	$775	11hr	1	via Istanbul(SAW)
Dhaka	Turkish	$1079	15hr	1	via Istanbul (SWA)
Bangkok	KLM	$950	14hr	1	via Amsterdam(AMS)
Doha	Turkish Qatar	$842	14hr	1	via Istanbul(SAW)
Jerevan	Air France	$425	7hr	1	via Paris (CDG)
Tel Aviv	Meridiana	$256	3hr50	0
Istanbul	Turkish(TK) Alitalia	$293 $202	2hr30 4hr	0 1	via Rome (FCO)
Riyadh	Emirates (EK)	$752	12hr50	1	via Dubai
Amman	Egyptair	$622	11hr	1	via Cairo (CAI)
Auckland	Air New Zealand (NZ)	$1,500	28hr	1	via Hong Kong
Melbourne	Air China	$1,953	28hr	0	via Placerville
Vladivostok	Alitalia	$1267	16hr	1	via Moscow (SVO)

Africa

From	Airline	Airport	Price (USD)	Flight Time	Stops	Notes
Africa

Cairo	EgyptAir	Airport	$437	4hr	0
Johannesburg	KLM	Airport	$652	14hr	1	via Amsterdam (AMS)
Rabat	Royal Air	Airport	$445	6hr	1	via Casablanca (CMN)
Casablanca	Ryanair	Airport	$-	hr	1
Fez	Ryanair	Airport	$-	hr	1
Marrakesh	Ryanair	Airport	$-	hr	1
Tangier	Ryanair	Airport	$-	hr	1
Tunis	Alitalia	Airport	$401	4hr	1	via Rome (FCO)
Addis Ababa	Airport	Turkish	$683	13hr	1	via Istanbul(IST)
Lagos	Iberia	Airport	$806	11hr	1	via Madrid
Karthoum	EgyptAir	Airport	$722	14hr	1	via Cairo (CAI)
Tripoli	Tunis Air	Airport	$446	5hr40	1	via Tunis (TUN)
Algiers	Alitalia	Airport	$478	4hr	1	via Rome (FCO)
Nairobi	Ethiopian Airlines	Airport	$790	11hr	1	via Addis Abeba

America

From	Airline	Price (USD)	Flight Time	Stops	Notes

Americas

New York (JFK)	Emirates	$1082	8hr	0
New York (Newark)	Lufthansa SAS	$1615 $945	8hr25 15hr	0	via Copenhagen
Los Angeles	Turkish	$1712	18hr	1	via Istanbul
San Francisco	Delta	$1351	16hr	1	via Atlanta; New York
Washington	Delta/Alitalia	$1230	13hr	1	via Atlanta; New York
Toronto	Turkish	$1228	17hr	1	via Istanbul
Montreal	Air Canada Jet Airways India/Brussels Airways	$1300 $1050	8hr 10hr	0 1	via Bruxelles
Mexico City	Delta/Alitalia	$1375	16hr	1	via Atlanta
Bogota	Iberia	$1500	14hr	1	via Madrid
Caracas	Lufthansa	$2920	14/26hr	1	via Frankfurt
São Paulo	TAM Delta	$1646 $1468	11hr 28hr	0 1	via Atlanta
Rio de Janeiro	TAM	$1699	16hr30	1	via São Paulo
Santiago	LAN	$1699	16hr30	1	via São Paulo
Buenos Aires	Air Europa	$1170	16hr	1	via Madrid
Lima	LAN	$1555	16/30hr	1	via Madrid
Montevideo	TAM	$1801	16/23hr	1	via São Paulo
Asuncion	TAM TAM	$1744 $1544	15hr 14/21hr	1 2	via São Paulo via São Paulo, Buenos Aires
Panama	Iberia	$1030	14/27hr	1	via Madrid

Notes

[1] One-way.

[2] ttps://maps.google.it

[3] ttp://www.trainmilanmalpensa.com.

[4] ttp://www.autostradale.it/interna.aspx?gr=2&sez=60&sot=2&ae=4.

[5] ttp://www.autostradale.it/interna.aspx?gr=2&sez=60&sot=2&ae=4.

[6] ttp://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=2163.

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