Venice Marco Polo Airport

Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
IATA: VCE ICAO: LIPZ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SAVE S.p.A.
Serves	Venice, Italy
Location	Tessera
Focus city for	Volotea easyJet[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
Map
VCE Location of the airport in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt 04L/22R 2,780 9,121 Bitumen
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 9,624,748 Passenger change 15–16 10% Cargo 57,973.1 Cargo change 15–16 13.8%
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 many European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States, Canada and the Middle East. With 9,624,748 passengers having passed through the airport in 2016 and over 90,000 aircraft movements,^[4] it remains the fifth busiest airport in Italy as number of passengers and the fourth as number of movements. 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 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 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 for Schengen and non-Schengen flights.

Airlines and destinations

View of the apron

View of the apron

View of the Check-in-area

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Venice:^[8]

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