Venice Marco Polo Airport

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Venice Marco Polo Airport
Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo
Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera

IATA: VCEICAO: LIPZ

VCE
Location of the airport in Italy

Summary
Airport type Public
Operator SAVE S.p.A.
Serves Venice, Italy
Location Tessera
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194 (Venice Marco Polo Airport)Coordinates: 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194 (Venice Marco Polo Airport)
Website veniceairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt
04L/22R 2,780 9,121 Bitumen
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 8,751,028
Passenger change 14–15 Increase3.3%
Cargo 50,961.1
Cargo change 14–15 Increase14.7%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[3]

Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ) is the international airport of Venice, Italy. It is located on the mainland 4.3 nautical miles (8.0 kilometres; 4.9 miles) north[2] of the city in Tessera, a Frazione of the Comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. Due to the importance of Venice as a leisure destination it features flights to European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States and the Middle East. With 8,751,028 passengers having passed through the airport in 2015,[4] it remains the fifth busiest airport in Italy. The airport is christened after Marco Polo and serves as a base for Volotea and easyJet.[5]

There is another airport located in the Venice area, Treviso Airport, which is sometimes labelled as Venice-Treviso and mostly serves low-cost airlines.

Overview

A modern terminal was opened in 2002, but it is already at full capacity.[6] It handles all scheduled and charter flights, including some long-haul flights to North America, the Middle East, and Asia.

The airport is managed by SAVE S.p.A., a company partially owned by local authorities which also controls the smaller Treviso Airport, dedicated mainly to low-cost carriers. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, whose book introduced Central Asia and China to Europeans.

In August 2014, Air One announced the closure of its operations including the shutdown of its Venice base on 30 September 2014.[7]

Terminal

The airport terminal has three floors: the ground floor for arrivals and the second floor for departures. The departure area has 70 check-in desks and has two lounges airside for customers. The two departure lounges are the "Tintoretto Lounge" for SkyTeam customers and the "Marco Polo Room" for customers of all other companies. The third floor of the terminal has offices for the operating company and airlines. The departure gates area is separated into Schengen and Non-Schengen flights. Flights in the Non-Schengen gate area require passengers to pass through Italian Passport Control.

Airlines and destinations

View of the apron
View of the apron
View of the Check-in-area
A Lufthansa Boeing 737 at Venice Airport
A Volotea Boeing 717 at Venice Airport
Night view of the airport, with a Iberia Airbus A320.

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean AirlinesSeasonal: Athens, Heraklion (begins 3 June 2016),[8] Rhodes (begins 2 June 2016)
Aer Lingus Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
airBalticSeasonal: Riga
Air Berlin Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Air Canada RougeSeasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air Europa Seasonal: Barcelona (begins 16 May 2016)[9]
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Toulouse
Air France
operated by HOP!
Lyon
Air Malta Seasonal: Malta
Air Moldova Chișinău
Air TransatSeasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Alitalia Abu Dhabi, Rome-Fiumicino, Tirana
Alitalia
operated by Alitalia CityLiner
Berlin-Tegel, Rome-Fiumicino
American Airlines Seasonal: Philadelphia
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines
Tirana
British Airways London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow
British Airways
operated by BA CityFlyer
Seasonal: London-City
Seasonal charter: Edinburgh
Brussels AirlinesBrussels
Croatia AirlinesSeasonal: Dubrovnik
Czech Airlines Prague
Delta Air LinesSeasonal: Atlanta, New York-JFK
easyJet[1]Amsterdam, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Bristol, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Southend (ends 28 October 2016),[10] Lyon, Manchester, Naples, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Prague, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Ibiza, Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Santorini
easyJet SwitzerlandBasel/Mulhouse, Geneva
El Al Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[11]
Emirates Dubai-International
Etihad Regional
operated by Darwin Airline
Geneva, Paderborn/Lippstadt (begins 9 July 2016)[12]
FinnairSeasonal: Helsinki
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Hamburg
Iberia Madrid
Jet2.com Seasonal: Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester
KLM Amsterdam
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg
Meridiana Seasonal: Ibiza (begins 12 June 2016),[13] Olbia
Monarch Airlines Manchester
Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick
Neos Seasonal: Ibiza, Minorca[14]
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Primera Air Billund[15]
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Swiss Global Air Lines
Zürich
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Thomas Cook AirlinesSeasonal charter: Manchester
Thomson AirwaysSeasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia Amsterdam, Munich[16]
Transavia France Nantes, Paris-Orly
Seasonal: Lille
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil
United AirlinesSeasonal: Newark
Volotea Bari, Bordeaux, Catania, Marseille, Nantes, Palermo, Toulouse
Seasonal: Alicante, Athens, Asturias (begins 27 May 2016),[17] Bilbao, Brindisi, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik (begins 28 May 2016), Heraklion, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pantelleria, Prague, Preveza/Lefkada, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Split, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Zakynthos
Vueling Barcelona, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Bilbao

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines IrelandLondon-Stansted, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
DHL AviationLondon-Heathrow
TNT AirwaysBrussels
UPS AirlinesCologne/Bonn, Rome-Ciampino
Volga-Dnepr AirlinesMoscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Ulyanovsk, Yemelyanovo

Ground transportation

The airport is connected to the nearby railway station of Venice Mestre and to the bus terminal of Piazzale Roma in Venice by scheduled bus services; to several destinations in Venice itself by the Alilaguna water shuttle (Blue, Red and Orange lines); and to Piazza San Marco by the express Gold Line or BookTaxiVenice water taxi. From the airport it is possible to reach:

Accidents and incidents

References

External links

Media related to Venice Marco Polo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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