Flight prices from Milan Italy

Make sure you are booking a “multi city” trip not 2 One Way tickets
Look under Advanced Search or similar

Milan is usually the most reasonably priced in Italy
Next would be Rome

Often called “open jaw”

Milan has two major airports, the larger is Malpensa, and the smaller is Linate (closer to the city.)
We booked our May 2025 flights a few weeks ago, and found Milan to be cheaper than Venice or Rome (business class.) I think you should find reasonable fares for Milan. Research using GoogleFlights. You can follow price patterns and set up Alerts. You can look at pricing for an entire month, as often changing by a day or two can really save money.
You can set up Alerts for multi-city trips. However, I'd search round trip for Brussels , and then round trip for Milan, for easier researching.
Or, you can search for a trip from Seattle to "Europe".
Is Amsterdam an option? I've seen good fares to here.
After your research, always book flights directly with the airlines, never use third-party brokers.
If you're flying British Airways, there is the AARP discount. Any age can join AARP.
You have lots of time. Fares change rapidly, often within the same day. Good luck!

Use Google Flights and select the Multi-City mode in place of one-way or round-trip. You can play around with departure cities for your return flight.

I agree with the above comment about Milan offering lowest cost return to the US. We chose to end our trip this summer in Lugano because of its proximity to Milan, where we got the lowest overall fare.

Although airlines begin selling tickets for flights up to one year in advance, buying tickets for iinternational flights 8, 9 or 10 months in advance is not usually going to save passengers money on airfares. When airlines first put tickets up for sale they are usually set at a high price. Eight months before a flight, the airline is not under any pressure to fill the plane up. That may happen three or four or five months before the flight— but the airlines are not going to give away the store 8-9 months in advance.
The online company “ CheapAir.com” studies airfares every year and they concluded that passengers, on average, will actually pay more for flights if they buy their ticket eight months or more in advance. The airlines reason that anyone booking a flight that far in advance will pay the initial higher price. The rationale is that those buying their ticket that far in advance must be determined to fly on a certain date at a certain time, or they have other requirements and want to book their preferred flight as soon as they can.
If there are too many empty seats on a particular flight, the airline will eventually cut the price temporarily to sell some inventory, This often happens 4-6 months before the date of the flight. The temporarily reduced fares will get some customers off the fence to book their flight before the fares rise again. This seesaw dynamic of lowering fares for a few days or a couple weeks before raising the fares again will repeat itself over and over until there’s just 21 days before the flight’s departure date and fares are raised as much as 50% above the most recent price. A number of companies in the travel industry say the sweet spot where the least expensive airfares become available is one to four months in advance of the flight’s departure.

Thanks everyone! I have tried all the above, but the last three times I went to Europe (2022,2023 and 2004) I have had trouble with flights filling up very fast. I need to upgrade to premium economy and I think those seats are taken very quickly (don't want the middle row so the window seats seem to always be reserved). When I went to France in 2022 I waited to book about 5 months ahead and prices just kept going up with few seat choices then when booked for Spain had the same issue so thought if I started looking early I would be better off, but when I saw the prices I had sticker shock!

Thanks for all the detailed information - makes me feel better about waiting - do have search on google and sky scanner so for now will continue to monitor flights. Happy Travels! Judy

@jd, I know this sounds like overkill, but just check for about ten minutes every day. And pls let us know if you scored an acceptable - or great- rate! This has worked for me over the years. One would expect a fall sale, but it's all unpredictable.
On the domestic front, I had just said the days of a $29 flight on Southwest was bygones. Then just this week, Southwest had a $29 sale, and I jumped on that, and received lots of credit on flights I had previously booked.
Good luck!

PS- what would you consider an acceptable fare, if any of us chance upon a sale?

Pat, Thank you for the offer.I hope to nab one stop only flights in premium economy with less than a 4 hour layover. No more than $2,000 round trip each with a well rated airline. I can easily find economy round trips for $900 to 1,000 but when I go to upgrade, different flights are offered or the price is more than double the economy price. Just keeping my eyes on the prices right now. If you do come across flights you think meet my criteria let me know. So far Condor is the only one I find, but their reviews are not that great. Thanks so much!!!

Just looked at Delta-- SEA-BRU; MXP-SEA, ( multi city) for May

Comfort+ $1325 TOTAL

3-3.5 hrs at JFK each way

Thank you. I was told to use LIN instead of MXP (because MXP is about a hour away). Any experience with either airport? Thank you!

Well, the advice about Linate vs Malpensa is a double-edged sword.

Linate is the smaller, in-city airport for Milan. Therefore, you are going to get
mostly intra-Europe flights. So while it is more convenient for getting into
downtown Milan (you're pretty much there already), your flight options are
more limited, and could be more costly.

You can fly non-stop from MXP to some US cities. LIN will definitely be a
connection.

As noted, it's a long time to next May, and no one really knows if the travel
demand will be higher/lower/weirder.

Venice and Turin are not too far away, but I don't think anyone would say that
those airports have cheaper flights in general than Milan.

If cost is most important to you, keep Malpensa in your search criteria.

I am booking from Canada so it may or may not be similar but we have found our best deals in the past 18 months on KLM. Ours are Business Class tickets but refundable; not sure about their PE fares. Schipol also has great connections and you could potentially take the train to Brussels instead of flying. From the west coast we prefer getting to Europe without a North American connection as there are more options once we are there if there are delays etc. We booked our KLM Vancouver to Amsterdam 4 months ago. As we are planning to stay in Rotterdam a few days upon arrival and have a day in Amsterdam before we leave, we booked our Inter Europe flights on a separate ticket (into Venice to go to Padova and out of Torino). Good luck with your planning!

You can search on goggle using all airports for Milan. You can easily then see the price difference between Linate and Malpensa have always used Malpensa because of the price difference.

There now is a train that you can take to the airport. I have used it the last two times I have flown to Milan. It is an hour as you noted but easy.

The train to the Malpensa airport: Malpensa Express

the cost is 13 euros one way from Milano Centrale rail station.