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

Contents 1 Terminal 2 Airlines and destinations 2.1 Cargo airlines 3 Accidents and incidents 4 Transport 5 References 6 External links

[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 [seasonal]
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
AirBaltic	Riga
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel [seasonal; begins 28 March], Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg [seasonal; begins 28 March], Hanover [seasonal], Stuttgart
Air Europa	Madrid
Air France	Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Transat	Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson [seasonal]
Alitalia	Cagliari, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One	Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Vienna
Baboo	Geneva, London-City, Nice
Blue Air	Suceava
BMI	Glasgow-International [seasonal; begins 22 May]
Bmibaby	East Midlands [seasonal; begins 12 February]
British Airways	London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow [seasonal]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Carpatair	Budapest, Timişoara
Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen [seasonal]
Czech Airlines	Prague
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta [seasonal], New York-JFK
EasyJet	Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, East Midlands [ends 5 January], Lyon, London-Gatwick, Naples, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly [begins 28 March], Rome-Fiumicino
Emirates	Dubai
Finnair	Helsinki [seasonal]
Iberia Airlines	Madrid
Jet2.com	Leeds/Bradford, Edinburgh, Manchester [begins 22 March]
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Düsseldorf
Meridiana	Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Olbia
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo-Gardermoen [seasonal]
Scandinavian Airlines System	Copenhagen
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Contact Air	Zürich
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
TAROM	Bucharest-Henri Coandă
Thomson Airways	London-Gatwick, Manchester
Tunisair	Djerba [seasonal], Monastir [seasonal], Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
US Airways	Philadelphia [seasonal]
Vueling Airlines	Barcelona, Madrid
Wind Jet	Catania, Palermo

[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 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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.^[4]
• 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.^[5]

[edit] Transport

From the Venice airport, the buses ACTV and ATVO bring you to the two Venice railway stations:^[6]

• 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] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Venice Marco Polo Airport

• Official website

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