Venice Marco Polo Airport

Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
IATA: VCE – ICAO: 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	Volotea easyJet (begins April 2016)[1]
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 3.3% Cargo 50,961.1 Cargo change 14–15 14.7%
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.

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

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

Cargo

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:

• Venice Piazzale Roma by ATVO (provincial company) buses^[18] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);^[19]
• Venice, Lido and Murano by Alilaguna (private company) motorboats;
• Mestre, the mainland and Venice Mestre railways station (convenient for connections to Milan, Padova, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy) by ACTV buses (route 15 and 45)^[19] and ATVO buses;
• regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by Busitalia Sita Nord^[20] 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.^[21]
• On 14 September 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board.^[22]
• 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.^[23]

References

External links

Media related to Venice Marco Polo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for LIPZ at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for VCE at Aviation Safety Network

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