Valencia Airport

Valencia Airport
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
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Location within Spain

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,215 10,548 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 5,799,104
Passengers change 15-16 Increase14.7%
Movements 62,798
Movements change 15-16 Increase6.4%
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 tenth 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 20 European countries and 5.79 million passengers passed through the airport in 2016.[1]

Facilities

Interior of T2 at Valencia Airport
Valencia Airport "Regional Terminal"
Interior of "Regional Terminal"
View of the airport from the wing of a Airbus A320

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
Air EuropaMadrid, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Ibiza, Málaga, Menorca, Tenerife–South
Blue AirBucharest, Iași (ends 25 October 2017)[6]
British AirwaysLondon–Gatwick
easyJetLondon–Gatwick, London-Luton
Seasonal: Hamburg, Toulouse
EurowingsStuttgart, Düsseldorf
FlyOneSeasonal: Chișinău
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum		Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville
Seasonal: Asturias, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote
KLMAmsterdam
LufthansaFrankfurt, Munich
Monarch AirlinesSeasonal: Birmingham
Royal Air Maroc
operated by Royal Air Maroc Express		Casablanca
RyanairBeauvais, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest (begins 30 October 2017),[7] Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Craiova, Dublin, Frankfurt (begins 05 September 2017),[8] Edinburgh (begins 31 October 2017),[9] Eindhoven (begins 30 October 2017),[10] Hahn, Hamburg, Glasgow, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Kraków, Lanzarote, London–Stansted, Malta, Marrakech, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa (begins 29 October 2017),[11] Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rome–Ciampino, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife–South, Treviso, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze
Seasonal: Bari, Bristol, Copenhagen, East Midlands, Manchester, Menorca, Trieste, Turin
S7 AirlinesSeasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines		Seasonal: Prague
Sun D'Or
operated by El Al		Seasonal: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Swiss International Air LinesGeneva, Zürich
TAP Portugal
operated by TAP Express		Lisbon
TAROMBucharest
TransaviaAmsterdam, Eindhoven
Seasonal: Munich (ends 26 October 2017), Rotterdam
Transavia FranceParis–Orly
Seasonal: Lyon
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul–Atatürk
Ukraine International AirlinesSeasonal: Ivano-Frankivsk
VoloteaAsturias
Seasonal: Nantes, Santander
VuelingAlgiers, Amsterdam, A Coruña, Bilbao, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville
Seasonal: Ibiza, Milan–Malpensa, Tenerife-South, Oran
Wizz AirBucharest, Cluj–Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara
Windrose AirlinesSeasonal charter: Kiev-Boryspil

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Ukraine Air Alliance Belgrade
UPS Airlines Barcelona, Cologne/Bonn

Ground transport

Valencia Airport metro station
Interior of the T2

Road

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.

Rail

The metro network Metrovalencia with lines 3 and 5 on the airport satation connect the airport to the city centre (15 minutes), the main Railway Station of the city Estació del Nord (20 minutes) and the port of Valencia (30 minutes).

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 airport statistics 2016" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Welcome to Ryanair!". Ryanair.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Blue Air Flight Schedule
  7. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271685/ryanair-w17-new-routes-as-of-05mar17/
  8. ↑ https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
  9. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271685/ryanair-w17-new-routes-as-of-05mar17/
  10. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271685/ryanair-w17-new-routes-as-of-05mar17/
  11. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271685/ryanair-w17-new-routes-as-of-05mar17/
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