On the ground in Milan

Mainland Europe welcomes the worldflight teams for 2010. After lengthy delays for traffic in Greece everyone diverted to athens. The late unexpected change meant new flightplans had to be generated and validated for the trip to Milan which put everyone behind schedule. There was a chance for the crew to say hello to old friends on Eurocontrol_FSS and Roma Control before descending into Milano airspace where local ATC did an excellent job of managing traffic through holding patterns and into a foggy Milan Malpensa airport.

This satellite photo of the international terminal area shows the teams at Milan at 22:55z...