Milano Centrale or Cadorna station?

No reason since the Malpensa Express goes from Cadorna to MXP

The Malpensa Express will take you to Malpensa Airport in a shorter time than from Milano Centrale.

No, take the Malpensa Express to Cadorna. Smaller station and quicker trip.

Thanks for your responses!

Cadorna station worked perfectly. We Arrived early at the train station via taxi for our train to MXP. Not many people were at the station. A man dressed in jeans and a polo shirt advised us that the trains were on strike. At first, I was panicked. Then I thought that both the clerk at the hotel and the taxi driver would have known that. My instinct was to continue to the train terminal. The train was at the station and boarding. I offer this info was a word of advice to avoid being scammed and taken for an expensive taxi ride or worse.

Jpfowler31,

I’m glad it all worked out for you.

BTW, there actually was a train strike that started Saturday, May 26 at 10PM till Sunday, May 27 at 5:59AM.
Most people didn’t know about it.
I was worried because I had to get to MXP yesterday morning, the 26th.

I went to Milano Centrale on May 25th to ask and was advised to go directly to the Trenord ticket counter for advice.
I was reassured that trains would be running up until 10PM.

Edited to add....
For future reference only.
According to the notice posted on Trenord.it:

Malpensa Express airport service, in the event of cancellations, will be replaced by no-stop buses.

This is good to know!

It's quite sad that some guy who tried to help has been immediately labelled as a scammer.

I call it sad because a scam is just one among many others options, given that when we are abroad we know we can't understand everything.

Pricilla is 100% right. Another possible explanation is that not all strikes are successful. Workers who are not unionized can ignore it and go to work.

The 2 airport trains guaranteed to run even during a strike are the Malpensa Express and the Leonardo Express in Rome.

Guaranteed means that strikes are forbidden and that the airport can and will use temporary workers and/or buses.

The FL1 that connects FCO airport and many secondary stations around Rome is not guaranteed to run; it's the same for Turin's train from Caselle airport to the northern outskirts: it's part of a regional service and may stop running during a strike. Please, do not memorize "airport train = no strikes".

I don't know about the train that goes from Palese airport to Bari Centrale; Ferrorotramviaria is the last italian railway entirely owned by privates, so I wouldn't be surprised if they ignored strikes, too.