Venice Marco Polo Airport
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| Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo |
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| IATA: VCE – ICAO: 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°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 | Asphalt |
Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: 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
| 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 |
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On March 6, 1967 a Short 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.[1]
- On March 11, 1967 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Aeralpi crashed into a hill while flying from Marco Polo airport while on approach to Belluno Airport in bad weather.[2]
- On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.[3]
- 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 International Airport, but landed safely on a foam carpet.[4]
[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.
[edit] External links
- Venice Marco Polo Airport official website (English)
- Airport information for LIPZ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ "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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 2008-03-10.
- ^ http://www.veniceairport.com/page/servizi/trasporti/treno?m=01020201
