Valencia Airport

Coordinates: 39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167
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Valencia Airport

Aeropuerto de Valencia
Aeroport de València
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesValencia, Spain
LocationManises
Hub for
Elevation AMSL73 m / 240 ft
Coordinates39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167
Websiteaena.es
Map
VLC is located in Spain
VLC
VLC
Location within Spain
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,215 10,548 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers8,539,403
Passengers change 18-19Increase9.9%
Movements77,699
Movements change 18-19Increase2.9%
Cargo (t)14,515
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Valencia Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Valencia, Valencian: Aeroport de València) (IATA: VLC, ICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport, is the tenth-busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers[3] and second in the region after Alicante. It is situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west[2] of the city of Valencia, in Manises. The airport has flight connections to about 20 European countries and 8.53 million passengers passed through the airport in 2019.[1]

History

The airport 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 dispute over subsidies by the airport authorities.[4] Since then the airline has continued to operate out of Valencia but as a relatively large destination airport, and not a base.

Valencia's first transatlantic flight, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 from New York City's JFK Airport, landed in June 2009.[5][6] The route operated every summer until Delta announced in late 2012 that it would withdraw from the Spanish city the following year; the airline attributed its decision to the flight's poor financial performance and to rising fuel costs.[7]

Facilities

Airside area near gates 1-4
Exterior of the regional terminal annex
Airside area near gates 12-22
Control tower

Terminal

Valencia Airport consists of a single terminal that has been built in three stages which are directly connected to each other. The landside hall consists of three check-in areas: 1-12 is the newest one with the airport station beneath it, 13-42 is the oldest main building with a currently derelict upper floor, 43-56 is the largest annex housing most airlines. A single central security area leads to the airside with gates 1-22, with gates 1-4 being the newest area designated for non-Schengen flights. Gates 12-22 are located in a separate hall designated as a regional terminal that opened in time for the 2007 America's Cup which allows walk-boarding, mainly for flights by Iberia Regional and low-cost carriers. Some of the gates are equipped with jet bridges. The airside area features several food outlets and shops, however Starbucks and Burger King have been closed for good in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Runway and apron

The sole operational runway has been also lengthened by 50 m (160 ft) by 2007. The former runway 04/22 is not in use and has no ILS but has a helipad at the southwestern end.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Air AlgérieSeasonal: Algiers
Air Arabia Maroc Tangier[8]
Air Cairo Cairo,[9] Hurghada (begins 27 March 2023),[10] Luxor
Air EuropaMadrid, Palma de Mallorca
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[11]
Air Serbia Belgrade[12]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[13]
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna[14]
British AirwaysLondon–Heathrow
Brussels AirlinesSeasonal: Brussels[15]
easyJetBerlin, Lisbon,[16] London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
EurowingsDüsseldorf, Hamburg,[17] Stuttgart
FlyOne Seasonal: Chisinau (begins 3 June 2023)[18]
Flyr Seasonal: Oslo[19]
Iberia RegionalBarcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville
Seasonal: Asturias, Badajoz,[20] Fuerteventura, Funchal (begins 18 July 2023),[21] Granada, Gran Canaria, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Santander, Tenerife–North, Vigo
KLMAmsterdam
LufthansaFrankfurt, Munich
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg[22]
Royal Air Maroc ExpressCasablanca
RyanairAgadir, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork,[23] Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fès, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[24] Kraków, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen (begins 27 March 2023),[25] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 8 January 2023),[26] Tangier, Tenerife–North, Tenerife–South, Toulouse,[24] Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Vienna
Seasonal: Billund (begins 3 May 2023),[27] East Midlands, Hamburg, Malta, Menorca
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Oslo
SkyUpLviv (suspended)[28]
Smartwings Prague
Swiss International Air LinesGeneva, Zürich
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TransaviaAmsterdam, Eindhoven, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
Seasonal: Lyon[29]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
VoloteaA Coruña, Asturias, Bilbao,[30] Lyon
Vueling Algiers, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Brussels, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Gatwick,[31] Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Ibiza, Menorca
Wizz AirBucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Rome–Fiumicino (begins 13 December 2022),[32] Sofia, Timişoara, Warsaw–Chopin (begins 12 December 2022)[33]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[34] Cologne/Bonn
Swiftair[35] Ibiza, Madrid

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at VLC airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

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 the city of Valencia by a regular bus line operated by Fernanbus which takes between 30 and 35 minutes[36] and passes through Mislata, Quart de Poblet and Manises.

Rail

The metro network Metrovalencia with lines 3 and 5 on the airport station 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).

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Estadsticas – Aeropuertos Espaoles y Navegacin Area – aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine[1][2] Archived 2017-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Aena airport statistics 2016" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Welcome to Ryanair!". Ryanair.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  5. ^ Ricós, F (7 June 2009). "Valencia estrena el vuelo sin escalas a Nueva York". Las Provincias (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Línea aérea directa entre Valencia y Nueva York". El País (in Spanish). 6 June 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Delta Airlines suprime los vuelos entre Valencia y Nueva York durante el próximo año". Las Provincias (in Spanish). 18 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  8. ^ "New flights between Valencia and Tangier (Morocco) from March 2021". airarabia.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Spain, the country of beautiful architecture and flamenco songs". aircairo.com.
  10. ^ "AIR CAIRO NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 13OCT22". aeroroutes.com. 14 October 2022.
  11. ^ Liu, Jim. "Air France S20 Spain/Portugal network additions". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  12. ^ "Air Serbia unveils summer expansion".
  13. ^ "AirBaltic adds new flights – total of 96 routes in 2021".
  14. ^ https://www.austrianairlines.ag/Press/PressReleases/Press/2022/01/004.aspx
  15. ^ "Brussels Airlines launches its holiday offer for summer 2021". press.brusselsairlines.com. 26 December 2020.
  16. ^ "EasyJet lança 13 novas rotas a partir de Lisboa". 27 July 2022.
  17. ^ Liu, Jim. "Eurowings S20 Short-Haul network additions as of 18OCT19". Routesonline. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  18. ^ https://flyone.eu/en/
  19. ^ "Welcome".
  20. ^ Liu, Jim. "Iberia W19 Valencia limited-time network additions". Routesonline. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  21. ^ "Iberia expands seasonal Funchal service in 3Q23". aeroroutes. 29 November 2022.
  22. ^ "Luxair adds Valencia, another new summer route". 23 June 2020.
  23. ^ "Ryanair to add a third aircraft at Cork Airport, announces seven new routes". 17 February 2022.
  24. ^ a b "Ryanair".
  25. ^ aerotelegraph.com - "New Ryanair summer routes from Memmingen" (German) 17 November 2022
  26. ^ "Rayanir website". Ryanair.com. [not specific enough to verify]
  27. ^ https://check-in.dk/tre-nye-ryanair-ruter-fra-danmark-til-spanien/
  28. ^ "New European discoveries: SkyUp opens sales for the next season from Kharkiv, Lviv, and Zaporizhzhia". skyup.aero. 17 December 2021.
  29. ^ "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA".
  30. ^ Liu, Jim. "Volotea outlines post-COVID 19 network expansion in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  31. ^ "Vueling instala un tercer avión en València y lanzará una nueva ruta a Londres". 19 December 2019.
  32. ^ "Wizz Air : Nuovi aerei a Roma Fiumicino. Oggi l'annuncio". 22 September 2022.
  33. ^ "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more".
  34. ^ airlineroutemaps.com - UPS United Parcel Service retrieved 18 July 2020
  35. ^ "Swiftair cargo routes". 21 June 2020.
  36. ^ fernanbus. "LÍNEA 150". Fernanbús (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-01.

External links

Media related to Valencia Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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