Venice Marco Polo Airport
| Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo |
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IATA: VCE – ICAO: LIPZ
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | SAVE S.p.A. | ||
| Serves | Venice, Italy | ||
| Location | Tessera | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 7 ft / 2 m | ||
| Coordinates | 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°ECoordinates: 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 04R/22L | 3,300 | 10,827 | Asphalt |
| 04L/22R | 2,780 | 9,121 | Bitumen |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 6,701,689 | ||
| Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ) is an airport located on the Italian mainland 4.3 NM (8.0 km; 4.9 mi) north[1] of Venice, Italy, in Tessera, a frazione of the comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, whose book introduced Central Asia and China to Europeans.
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[edit] Overview
With 6,868,968 passengers having passed through the airport in 2010,[2] it is the fifth Italian airport in terms of air traffic.
A modern terminal, opened in 2002 but is already at full capacity, hosting all scheduled and charter flights, including some long-haul flights to the Middle East and North America.
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 stock is traded on the Borsa Italiana (Milan Stock Exchange).[citation needed]
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 the Venice itself by the Alilaguna water shuttle (Blue, Red and Orange lines), and to Piazza San Marco by the express Gold Line water taxi.
[edit] Terminal, airlines and destinations
The airport terminal has three floors, the ground floor for arrivals and the first 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.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens |
| Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart Seasonal: Hamburg |
| Air Corsica | Marseille [ends 24 March 2012] |
| Air Europa | Seasonal: Madrid |
| Air France | Marseille [begins 25 March 2012], Nice [begins 3 April 2012], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse [begins 3 April 2012] |
| Air France operated by Régional | Lyon |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson |
| AirBaltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| Air One | Athens [begins 17 June 2012], Barcelona [begins 04 May 2012], Brussels [begins 04 May 2012], Bucharest [begins 15 June 2012], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen [begins 15 June 2012], Prague [begins 15 June 2012], Sofia [begins 16 June 2012], St.Petersburg [begins 4 May 2012], Tirana [begins 04 May 2012], Warsaw [begins 16 June 2012] Seasonal: Menorca [begins 13 July 2012], Palma de Mallorca [begins 13 July 2012] |
| Alitalia | Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Cagliari, Naples, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Cagliari, Reggio Calabria, Olbia |
| Arkefly | Seasonal: Amsterdam [begins 12 May 2012] |
| Armavia | Seasonal: Yerevan |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways |
Vienna |
| Blue Air | Bacau [begins 26 March 2012], Bucharest-Baneasa [begins 27 March 2012] |
| Bmibaby | East Midlands |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Carpatair | Chişinău [begins 26 March 2012], Budapest, Timişoara |
| Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Dubrovnik |
| Darwin Airline | Geneva Seasonal: Nice |
| Delta Air Lines | New York-JFK Seasonal: Atlanta |
| EasyJet | Berlin-Schönefeld, Lyon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Naples, Nice [begins 30 March 2012], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Ibiza, Lisbon, Toulouse |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse Seasonal: Geneva |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Estonian Air | Seasonal: Tallinn [begins 9 June 2012] |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Jet2.com | Seasonal: Leeds/Bradford, Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti |
Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings |
Hamburg [begins 25 March 2012] |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine |
Düsseldorf |
| Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg |
| Meridiana Fly | Seasonal: Cagliari, Naples, Olbia, Sharm el-Sheikh |
| Monarch | Birmingham [begins 25 March 2012], London-Gatwick [begins 25 March 2012], Manchester [begins 27 March 2012] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Sun d'Or operated by El Al |
Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| Swiss International Airlines operated by Swiss European Airlines |
Zürich |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon |
| Thomson Airways | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Tunisair | Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| US Airways | Seasonal: Philadelphia |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Toulouse Seasonal: Nantes, Palma de Mallorca |
| Wind Jet | Catania Seasonal:Palermo |
| XL Airways France | Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse Charter:Strasbourg |
[edit] Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot-Cargo | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Contractors | London-Stansted, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| DHL Aviation | London-Heathrow |
| FedEx Express | Atlanta, Memphis, Milan-Malpensa, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| TNT Airways | Brussels |
| UPS Airlines | Cologne/Bonn, Rome-Ciampino |
| Volga-Dnepr Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Ulyanovsk, Yemelyanovo |
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On March 6, 1967 a Short Brothers SC.7 Skyvan 2-102 operated by Soc Aeralpi crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, crashing into the sea - all 3 on board survived.[3]
- On March 11, 1967 a de Havilland Canada Twin Otter operated by Aeralpi crashed into a hill while flying from Marco Polo airport while on approach to Belluno Airport in bad weather.[4]
- On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.[5]
- On November 7, 1999 Air Dolomiti Flight 2708, a Fokker 100 flying from Marco Polo Airport with 44 on board suffered maingear failure while approaching Barcelona Airport, but landed safely on a foam carpet.[6]
[edit] Transport
From the Venice airport, the buses ACTV and ATVO bring passengers to the two Venice railway stations:[7]
- Venice Santa Lucia (from where the Piazzale Roma square can be reached in 10 minutes on foot across the "Ponte della Costituzione" bridge)
- Venice Mestre (on the mainland, convenient for connections to Milan, Padova, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy).
Busitalia Sita Nord buses regularly connects the Airport to the city of Padova. Some additional buses are operated by Terravision.
[edit] References
- ^ a b EAD Basic
- ^ Dati di Traffico, Assaeroporti, Italy. (Italian)
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 2-102 I-TORE Venezia". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19670306-1. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 I-CLAI Mt Visenti". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19670311-0. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Piaggio PD.808TP MM61953 Venezia". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930914-1. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 100 I-ALPL Barcelona Airport (BCN)". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19991107-0. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Venice Airport Transport, Venice Airport.
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