In the Milan metropolitan region, Easyjet is omnipresent at Malpensa Airport. With Terminal 2, it even uses a handling complex more or less exclusively. However, the carrier wants to continue to grow at the inner-city Linate Airport. Easyjet already operates flights from Linate, but it wants far more than it is allowed. This is because the carrier has fewer take-off and landing rights than necessary for its ambitious program. For this reason, it is positioning itself for the planned entry of Lufthansa and Ita Airways. It is highly likely that the German and Italian airlines will have to release so-called slots at Milan Linate Airport. Formally, these will go back to the regulator, who will then have to reassign them to competitors. Easyjet hopes that it can get as many as possible if the worst comes to the worst. However, the allocation of take-off and landing rights does not necessarily mean that flights will actually start. In the course of the transition from Alitalia to Ita Airways, numerous slots have already had to be returned. Ryanair was also successful at the time and acquired the Linate take-off and landing rights, which are considered valuable. In contrast to its competitor Wizz Air, however, it never started flights from the inner-city airport, but instead returned them to the regulator. Easyjet, on the other hand, uses the slots. Easyjet CEO Johan Lundgren stressed to Reuters News that the company wants a piece of the pie this time too and wants to significantly expand its presence in Linate. In his opinion, this makes sense and has been explained accordingly in a statement to the EU Commission. At the moment, however,