• easyJet^[1]
• Volotea

| IATA = VCE
| ICAO = LIPZ
| pushpin_map = Italy
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the airport in Italy
| pushpin_label = VCE
| pushpin_label_position = left
| type = Public
| owner =
| operator = SAVE S.p.A.
| city-served = Venice, Italy
| location = Tessera
| elevation-f = 7
| elevation-m = 2
| coordinates = {{Coord|45|30|19|N|012|21|07|E|type:airport_region:IT|display=inline,title|name=Venice Marco Polo Airport}}
| website = veniceairport.com
| metric-rwy = yes
| r1-number = 04R/22L
| r1-length-f = 10,827
| r1-length-m = 3,300
| r1-surface = Asphalt
| r2-number = 04L/22R
| r2-length-f = 9,121
| r2-length-m = 2,780
| r2-surface = Bitumen
| stat1-header = Passengers
| stat1-data = 11,184,608
| stat2-header = {{nowrap|Passenger change 17–18}}
| stat2-data = {{increase}} 7.8%
| stat3-header = Cargo
| stat3-data = 68,028.80
| stat4-header = {{nowrap|Cargo change 17–18}}
| stat4-data = {{increase}} 11.8%
| stat-year = 2018
| footnotes = Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL^[2]
Statistics from Assaeroporti^[3]
| stat5-header = Movements
| stat5-data = 95,414
| stat6-header = Movements change 17-18
| stat6-data = {{increase}} 3.4%
}}Venice Marco Polo Airport {{Airport codes|VCE|LIPZ}} is the international airport of Venice, Italy. It is located on the mainland {{convert|4.3|NM|abbr=off|lk=in}} 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 many European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States, Canada and the Middle East. The airport handled 11,184,608 passengers in 2018^[4], making it the fourth busiest airport in Italy. The airport is named after Marco Polo and serves as a base for Volotea and easyJet.^[5]

Another airport located in the Venice area, Treviso Airport, is sometimes unofficially labelled as Venice - Treviso and mostly serves low-cost airlines, mainly Ryanair and Wizz Air.

Overview

A modern terminal was opened in 2002, but it is already at full capacity.^[6] The airport is managed by SAVE S.p.A., a company partially owned by local authorities that also controls the smaller Treviso Airport, dedicated mainly to low-cost carriers. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, whose travelogue introduced Central Asia and China to Europeans.

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 for Schengen and non-Schengen flights.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Venice:^[7]

{{Airport-dest-list
|Aegean Airlines| Athens
|Aer Lingus| Dublin
|Aeroflot| Moscow–Sheremetyevo
|Air Arabia Maroc| Casablanca
|airBaltic|Seasonal: Riga
|Air Cairo | Sharm El Sheikh
|Air Canada Rouge | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
|Air Dolomiti| Munich
|Air Europa | Madrid
|Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle
|Air Italy | Seasonal: Olbia
|Air Malta | Seasonal: Malta
|Air Moldova | Chișinău
|Air Serbia | Belgrade
|Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
|Albawings | Tirana
|Alitalia | Catania, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Palermo, Saint Petersburg
|American Airlines | Seasonal: Chicago–O'Hare,^[8] Philadelphia
|Asiana Airlines | Seoul–Incheon^[9]
|Austrian Airlines | Vienna
|British Airways | London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow
Seasonal: London–City
|Brussels Airlines | Brussels
|Croatia Airlines |Seasonal: Dubrovnik
|Czech Airlines | Prague
|Delta Air Lines |Seasonal: Atlanta, New York–JFK
|easyJet | Amsterdam, Bari, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld (ends 30 March 2019), Berlin–Tegel,^[10] Bordeaux, Bristol, Catania, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International,^[11] Hamburg, Liverpool,^[12] London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Naples, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Prague, Seville, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Toulouse, Zürich
Seasonal: Alghero, Bastia, Brindisi, Cagliari, Copenhagen, Corfu, Dubrovnik^[13], Lanzarote, Lille, Ibiza, Kefalonia (begins 30 June 2019), Kraków, Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini, Split,^[14] Thessaloniki
|easyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
|El Al | Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
|Emirates | Dubai–International
|Ernest Airlines | Lviv, Tirana^[15]
|Eurowings | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Hamburg, Stuttgart
|Finnair| Seasonal: Helsinki
|Flybe | Seasonal: Cardiff^[16]
|HOP! | Lyon
|Iberia | Madrid
|Jet2.com | Seasonal: Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester
|KLM | Amsterdam
|LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw–Chopin
|Lufthansa | Frankfurt
|Luxair | Luxembourg
|Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
|Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen (begins 1 July 2019)^[17]
|Qatar Airways | Doha
|Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca
|Ryanair | Bristol, Barcelona, London–Southend (begins 3 April 2019, ends 24 October 2019), London–Stansted (begins 1 April 2019)
|Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
| Silver Air | Seasonal: Lošinj (begins 24 May 2019)^[18]
|SunExpress Deutschland | Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel (begins 14 July 2019),^[19] Düsseldorf^[20]
|Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich
|TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon
|Transavia France | Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly
|TUI Airways | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
|Tunisair | Tunis
|Turkish Airlines | Istanbul–Atatürk (ends 4 April 2019), Istanbul (begins 5 April 2019) ^[21]
|{{nowrap|Ukraine International Airlines}} | Kiev-Boryspil
|United Airlines | Seasonal: Newark
|Ural Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo
|Volotea | Athens, Bari, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Catania, Marseille, Nantes, Palermo, Toulouse
Seasonal: Alghero, Alicante, Asturias, Alicante, Brindisi, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Karpathos, Kefalonia,^[22] Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Málaga,^[22] Mykonos, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pantelleria, Prague, Preveza/Lefkada, Rhodes, Samos, Santander, Santorini, Skiathos, Split, Zakynthos, Zaragoza
|Vueling | Barcelona, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
}}

Cargo

{{Airport-dest-list
|ASL Airlines Belgium|Brussels
|ASL Airlines Ireland|London-Stansted, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
|DHL Aviation|London–Heathrow
|UPS Airlines|Cologne/Bonn, Rome-Ciampino
|{{nowrap|Volga-Dnepr Airlines}}|Moscow–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 water taxi. From the airport it is possible to reach:

• Venice Piazzale Roma by ATVO (provincial company) buses^[23] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);^[24]
• Venice, Lido and Murano by Alilaguna (private company) motorboats;
• Mestre, the mainland and Venice Mestre railways station (convenient for connections to Milan, Padua, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy) by ACTV buses (route 15 and 45)^[24] and ATVO buses;
• regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by Busitalia Sita Nord^[25] buses (national company).

Accidents and incidents

• On 6 March 1967, a Short Brothers SC.7 Skyvan 2–102, operated by Soc. Aeralpi, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, crashing into the lagoon. All 3 on board survived.^[26]
• On 14 September 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board.^[27]
• On 10 May 2014, US Airways Flight 715, headed to Philadelphia from Venice, made an emergency landing at Dublin Airport in Ireland after nine flight attendants complained of nausea, dizziness and running eyes. There were no reports of the pilots or passengers falling ill.^[28]

References

External links

{{Commonscat-inline|Venice Marco Polo Airport}}

• Official website
• {{NWS-current|LIPZ}}
• {{ASN|VCE}}

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