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Land-of-Miles
I would strongly recommend LIN based on my experiences at LIN, MXP and FCO. I would also strongly recommend an overnight at LIN to make life easy for yourself. There are several hotels which are very close to LIN and have reasonable rooms at around £50 a night. Some even offer free pick ups.
IMHO unless you have definite plans for Milan I wouldn't bother staying over in the city, it is not the loveliest of cities and even the Milanese tend to bugger off to more picturesque places at the weekend.
Agreed with the LIN recommendation - altho in terms of fog, it's not limited to MXP, IME they both get affected in the winter...LIN is also a much smaller airport to navigate. You always get bussed to and from the plane at LIN whereas at MXP for me its been nearly always
Much much quicker to get from arrivals back to BA check in at LIN (assuming no OLIC etc), MXP has this weird extra security arrangement to go thru for LHR flight check in.
Will disagree that there isn't anything to see in Milan on a quick trip - plenty of museums, art galleries and the like, and did i mention the shopping
Early next year the sales will be on and they can be pretty good