Valencia Airport

Valencia International Airport
IATA: VLC ICAO: LEVC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aena
Serves	Valencia
Location	Manises
Elevation AMSL	69 m / 226 ft
Coordinates	39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04/22 1,130 3,707 Asphalt 12/30 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Passengers 5,779,336 Passenger growth 07-08 -2.6%
Source: AENA

Valencia Airport in Manises (IATA: VLC, ICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport, is the 8th busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers and second in the region after Alicante. It is situated 9km west of the city of Valencia. The airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 5.7 million passengers passed through the airport in 2008. The airport has one terminal and two runways, although the shorter runway 04/22 is not in use and has no ILS but has a helipad at the southwestern end.

Valencia airport is situated on the A3 highway which connects Valencia with Madrid, as well as being close to the A7, to Barcelona and into France. It is also well served by public transport. It is connected to Valencia by a regular bus line (MetroBus) which takes 45 minutes, while the shuttle service (Aerobus) to city centre takes only 20 minutes. The metro network (lines 3 and 5) also connect the airport to the city center (15 minutes), the Railway Station and the Port (fare: € 1,90, winter 2009).

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 500m.

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.

Airlines and destinations

In addition to those listed below, there are several charter flights during the summer from various European countries.

• Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
• Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tenerife-South)
• Alitalia (Rome-Fiumicino)
• Andalus (Nador)
• Blue Air (Arad, Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa)
• Clickair (Bucharest-Otopeni, Malta [begins 2 July], Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK) [seasonal]
• easyJet (Bristol, London-Gatwick)
• Flybaboo (Geneva)
• Iberia (Madrid)
  • operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Badajoz [begins 25 July], Barcelona, Bilbao, Bologna, Casablanca, Dubrovnik [begins 26 July], Funchal [begins 24 July], Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Leon, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech [begins 25 July], Melilla, Menorca, Murcia [seasonal], Nice [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North, Valladolid, Vigo)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt) [ends 28 June]
  • Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Rygge) [begins 28 June]
• Ryanair (Bologna, Brussels-Charleroi, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Hahn, London-Stansted, Madrid, Milan-Bergamo, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Weeze)
• Smart Wings (Prague)
• Spanair (Barcelona, Lanzarote, Madrid, Munich, Tenerife-South)
• Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
• TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
• Transavia (Amsterdam)
• TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn, Memmingen, Stuttgart)
• Vueling Airlines (Amsterdam, Brussels, Ibiza, Seville)
• Wizz Air (Bucharest-Băneasa, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara)

External links

• Aena.es Valencia Information Official Airport Website (in English)
• Official LEVC Spotters website