One Italian MP said he would be 'ashamed to land at Silvio Berlusconi Airport'.
A row has erupted over a plan to rename one of Milan's airports after the late Silvio Berlusconi. Transport minister Matteo Salvini, a longtime ally of the three-time prime minister, told a news conference on Friday that Italy's civil aviation authority, the ENAC, had approved the region's request to change Malpensa Airport's name.
'For Malpensa Airport there are very many illustrious Milanese men and women who would not cut a shabby figure from Alessandro Manzoni to Giuseppe Verdi, from Cesare Beccaria, to Carla Fracci, from Alda Merini to Gae Aulenti'. He added he would be 'ashamed to take a flight from Falcone and Borsellino Airport and land at Silvio Berlusconi Airport'.
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