Valencia Airport

Valencia Airport
IATA: VLC – ICAO: LEVC
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aena
Serves Valencia, Spain
Location Manises
Hub for Air Nostrum
Elevation AMSL 73 m / 240 ft
Coordinates 39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167Coordinates: 39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167
Website aena-aeropuertos.es
Map
VLC

Location within Spain

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,215 10,548 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 5,051,871
Passenger change 14-15 Increase9.9%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Valencia Airport in Manises (IATA: VLC, ICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport,[3] is the eighth busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers[4] and second in the region after Alicante. It is situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west[2] of the city of Valencia. The airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 4.98 million passengers passed through the airport in 2011.[1]

Overview

Interior view of Terminal 1
Valencia Airport metro station

Valencia airport is situated adjacent to the Autovía A-3 highway which connects Valencia with Madrid and is also close to the Autovía A-7 coastal route to Barcelona. It is connected to Valencia by a regular bus line (MetroBus) which takes 45 minutes, while the shuttle service (Aerobus) to city centre takes 20 minutes. The metro network (lines 3 and 5) also connect the airport to the city centre (15 minutes), the Railway Station and the Port.

A new regional terminal, expanded car parking facilities and apron area have been recently constructed in time for the 2007 America's Cup. The runway has been also lengthened by 50 m (160 ft). The airport has one terminal and one runway. The former runway 04/22 is not in use and has no ILS but has a helipad at the southwestern end.

It is the main base of Iberia's regional carrier Air Nostrum. Irish low-cost airline Ryanair used the airport as a hub since 2007 but decided to close it in November 2008 following a row over subsidies by the airport authorities.[5] Since then the airline has continued to operate out of Valencia but as a relatively large destination airport, and not a base. Ryanair later announced on 23 June 2010 that it would re-open its Valencia base with 2 based aircraft and 10 new destinations from November 2010.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
AeroflotMoscow–Sheremetyevo (begins 1 June 2016)[6]
Air EuropaMadrid, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Málaga (begins 17 February 2016),[7] Menorca, Tenerife–South
AlitaliaRome–Fiumicino
Blue AirBucharest
British AirwaysLondon–Gatwick[8]
Darwin AirlineGeneva
easyJetLondon–Gatwick
EurowingsStuttgart, Düsseldorf, Vienna
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum		Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Arrecife, Asturias, Fuerteventura
KLMAmsterdam (begins 23 April 2016)
LufthansaFrankfurt, Munich
NikiSeasonal: Vienna
Royal Air Maroc
operated by Royal Air Maroc Express		Casablanca
RyanairBeauvais, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Bologna, Brussels, Charleroi, Frankfurt–Hahn, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, London–Stansted, Pisa, Rome–Ciampino, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife–South, Treviso, Weeze
Seasonal: Bari, Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Manchester, Marseille, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Santander, Trieste, Turin (begins 1 April 2016)
S7 AirlinesSeasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines		Seasonal: Prague
Sun D'Or
operated by El Al		Seasonal: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion (begins 4 April 2016)
Swiss International Air LinesZürich
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Austrian Airlines		Geneva
TAP Portugal
operated by Portugália		Lisbon
TAROMBucharest
TransaviaAmsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Seasonal: Munich (begins 30 May 2016)[9]
Transavia FranceLyon (begins 16 May 2016), Paris–Orly
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul–Atatürk
VoloteaAsturias
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Nantes, Vigo
VuelingAlgiers (begins 19 March 2016),[10] Amsterdam, A Coruña (begins 27 March 2016), Bilbao, Brussels, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville
Seasonal: Ibiza, Milan–Malpensa, Santiago de Compostela
Wizz AirBucharest, Cluj–Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara
Windrose AirlinesSeasonal Charter: Kiev

Public Transport

Public Metrovalencia subway network allows connection via Xàtiva metro station with the city center and link to the main Estació del Nord train station within 20 minutes.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Estadsticas - Aeropuertos Espaoles y Navegacin Area - aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 Spanish AIP (AENA)
  3. ↑ "Sales Offices in Spain." Spanair. Retrieved on 6 May 2009.
  4. ↑ AENA passenger and aircraft movements for 2008
  5. ↑ "Welcome to Ryanair!". Ryanair.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  6. ↑ L, J (22 January 2016). "AEROFLOT Adds Valencia Service from June 2016". Airline Route. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/10/ux-agp-feb16/
  8. ↑ "British Airways Adds London Gatwick – Valencia / Porto Service in W15". Airline Route. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Transavia Opens Munich Base from late-March 2016
  10. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/30/vy-vlcalg-s16/
  11. ↑ metrovalencia.es - Timetable

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