Anyone know of a direct way from Bergamo to Malpensa? We need to be to Malpensa by 10 a.m. and want to go directly rather than via Milan. Grazie!
Google the Malepensa airport website and look for bus connections. There a a number of them daily.
You didn't mention if you have a a car or not. If you have a car you take the A4 highway which passes "over" (but not through) Milan and then the A9 which takes you up to Malpensa. If you are going on a weekday you need to allow yourself a lot of time because traffic on the A4 is intense, on a Sunday it takes a little more than a hour. This is fastest and most direct way to go.
Except for a rental car, I don't think that you will find direct public transportation from Bergamo to Malpensa without going through Milan. By train, it's 1hr-04min from Bergamo to Milan. Then, you transfer to the bus to the airport and its about another hour to Malpensa. Given that you have transfer time at the Milan train station, you are looking at approx. 2.5hrs travel time to get from Bergamo to Malpensa.