Venice Marco Polo Airport

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Venice Marco Polo Airport
Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo
IATA: VCEICAO: LIPZ
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°E / 45.50528; 12.35194Coordinates: 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194
Website www.veniceairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt
04L/22R 2,780 9,121 Asphalt
Marco Polo Airport

Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCEICAO: LIPZ) is an airport located on the Italian mainland near Venice, Italy, in Tessera, a frazione of the commune of Venice nearest to Mestre. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who is considered the European rediscoverer of China.

With 8.602.652 passengers having passed through the airport in 2008, it is the third largest Italian airport in terms of air traffic.

A modern terminal, opened in 2002 but already close to its full capacity, hosts all scheduled and charter flights, including some long-haul connections by Air Transat to Toronto-Pearson and Montréal-Trudeau, Delta Air Lines to New York-JFK and Atlanta-Hartsfield, Emirates Airline to Dubai, and US Airways to Philadelphia.

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).

The airport is connected to the nearby railway station of Venice-Mestre and to the bus terminal of Venice-Piazzale Roma by scheduled bus services, and to Piazza San Marco by water taxi.

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[edit] Terminal

The airport terminal has three floors, the ground floor for arrivals and the first floor for departures. The departure area has 60 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.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Photo Terminal
Photo 2 Terminal
Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Aer Lingus Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
AirBaltic Riga
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf
Air Europa Madrid
Air France Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air One Bari, Naples
Air Transat Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Alitalia Cagliari, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One Rome-Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Vienna
Blue Air Suceava
BMI London-Heathrow
British Airways London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Carpatair Timişoara
Cimber Sterling Copenhagen
Clickair Barcelona
Czech Airlines Prague
Delta Air Lines Atlanta [seasonal], New York-JFK
EasyJet Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, East Midlands, Lyon, London-Gatwick, Naples, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino
Emirates Dubai
Finnair Helsinki
Flybaboo Geneva, Nice
Iberia Airlines Madrid
Jet2.com Leeds/Bradford, Edinburgh
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Düsseldorf
Malév Hungarian Airlines Budapest [ends 25 October]
Meridiana Cagliari, Naples, Olbia
MyAir Barcelona, Bari, Brindisi, Bucharest-Băneasa, Cagliari, Casablanca, Catania, Ibiza, Marrakech, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Olbia, Sofia
Norwegian Air Shuttle Oslo-Gardermoen
Scandinavian Airlines System Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen [ends 11 October]
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Contact Air Zürich
TAP Portugal Lisbon
TAROM Bucharest-Otopeni
Thomson Airways London-Gatwick, Manchester
Tunisair Djerba [seasonal], Monastir [seasonal], Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
TUIfly Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover, Stuttgart
US Airways Philadelphia [seasonal]
Vueling Airlines Barcelona, Madrid, Seville
Windjet Catania, Palermo

[edit] Charter airlines

Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines Ancona, Heraklion [seasonal], Thessaloniki [seasonal]
Arkia Israel Airlines Tel Aviv [seasonal]
Blue Line (airline) Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Blue Panorama Airlines Paris-Charles de Gaulle [seasonal]
Europe Airpost Dubrovnik, Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Toulouse
Iberworld Barcelona, Madrid
Nouvelair Ancona, Monastir
Privilege Style Madrid
Spanair Barcelona
Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) Luxembourg [seasonal]
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Bergen, Gothenburg, Oslo-Gardermoen
XL Airways France Biarritz [begins 23 October], Lille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Nantes, Toulouse

[edit] Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot-Cargo Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Contractors London-Stansted, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
DHL Aviation London-Heathrow
FedEx Express Atlanta, Memphis, Milan-Malpensa, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
TNT Airways Brussels
UPS Airlines New York-JFK
Volga-Dnepr Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Ulyanovsk, Yemelyanovo

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[edit] Transport

From the Venice airport, the buses ACTV and ATVO bring you to the two Venice railway stations:[5]

  • Venice-Santa Lucia (from where you can reach the Piazzale Roma square in 10 minutes on foot acrossing the "Ponte della Costituzione" bridge)
  • Venice-Mestre (on the mainland, convenient for connections to Milan, Verona, and the rest of Italy).

Some additional buses are operated by Terravision.

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