Venice Marco Polo Airport

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Venice Marco Polo Airport

Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo

Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorSAVE S.p.A.
Serves Venice and Padua, Italy
LocationTessera
Focus city for
Elevation  AMSL 7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 45°30′19″N012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194 (Venice Marco Polo Airport)
Website veneziaairport.it
Map
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VCE
Location of the airport in Italy
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VCE
VCE (Italy)
Venice Marco Polo Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
04R/22L3,30010,827 Asphalt
04L/22R2,7809,121 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers9,319,156
Passenger change 21-22Increase2.svg 171.1%
Movements79,171
Movements change 21-22Increase2.svg 102.1%
Cargo47,585
Cargo change 21-22Increase2.svg 7.6%
Source: Assaeroporti

Venice Marco Polo Airport( IATA : VCE, ICAO : LIPZ) is the international airport of Venice, Italy. It is located on the mainland near the village of Tessera, a frazione of the comune of Venice located about 4.1 nautical miles (7.6 kilometres; 4.7 miles) east of Mestre (on the mainland) and around the same distance north of Venice proper. Due to the importance of Venice as a leisure destination, it features flights to many European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States, Canada, South Korea and the Middle East. The airport handled 11,184,608 passengers in 2018, [4] making it the fourth-busiest airport in Italy. The airport is named after Marco Polo and serves as a base for Volotea, Ryanair, Wizz Air and easyJet. [5]

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Another airport located in the Venice area, Treviso Airport, is sometimes unofficially labelled Venice – Treviso and serves low-cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air.

Overview

A modern terminal was opened in 2002, but it is already at full capacity.[ when? ][ citation needed ] The airport is managed by SAVE S.p.A., a company partially owned by local authorities that also controls the smaller Treviso Airport, dedicated to low-cost carriers. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo.

Terminal

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Terminal

The airport terminal has three floors: the ground floor for arrivals and the second floor for departures. The departure area has 70 check-in desks and has two airside lounges. The "Tintoretto Lounge" is for SkyTeam passengers and the "Marco Polo Room" is for all other passengers. The third floor of the terminal has offices for the operating company and airlines. The departure floor has separate areas for Schengen and non-Schengen flights.

Airlines and destinations

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View of the apron
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Air traffic control

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Venice: [6]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Air Arabia Casablanca
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh [7]
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air Europa Madrid [8]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle [9]
Air Serbia Belgrade [10]
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
American Airlines Seasonal: Dallas/Fort Worth (begins 8 June 2025), [11] [12] Philadelphia [12]
Asiana Airlines Seasonal charter: Seoul–Incheon
Austrian Airlines Vienna [13]
Binter Canarias Seasonal: Gran Canaria
British Airways London–Heathrow [14]
Brussels Airlines Brussels [15]
China Eastern Airlines Shanghai–Pudong [16] [17]
Croatia Airlines Seasonal: Dubrovnik
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: Atlanta, [18] New York–JFK
easyJet Amsterdam, Athens, [19] Berlin, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester, [20] Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Dubrovnik, [21] Hurghada, Ibiza, Kefalonia, [22] Kos, Larnaca, Mykonos, Olbia, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh
El Al Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki [23]
HiSky Chișinău [24]
Iberia Madrid [25]
ITA Airways Rome–Fiumicino
Jet2.com Birmingham, [26] Manchester
KLM Amsterdam [27]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Lumiwings Foggia Airport [28]
Luxair Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways Doha [29]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair [30] [31] Barcelona, Bari, Berlin, Brindisi, Bristol, Catania, Cork, [32] Dublin, Edinburgh, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marseille, Naples, Palermo, Prague, [33] Reggio Calabria, [34] Santander, Trapani [35]
Seasonal: Alghero, Bournemouth, [36] Cologne/Bonn, [36] Helsinki, [36] Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Vienna [36]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, [37] Oslo [38]
SunExpress Seasonal: Izmir
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich [39]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Nantes
TUI Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick, Manchester
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark, Washington–Dulles (begins 22 May 2025) [40]
Volotea Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Toulouse [41]
Seasonal: Asturias, Cagliari, Karpathos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Pantelleria, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Athens begins 31 march 2025, Barcelona begins 30 march 2025, Budapest begins 8 march 2025, Catania, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, London–Gatwick, Madrid begins 30 march 2025, Prague, Sharm El Sheikh begins 31 march 2025, Skopje, Tenerife–South, Warsaw–Chopin, Yerevan

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at VCE airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

The mainland airport has scheduled bus connections to the nearby railway stations of Venice Mestre and Piazzale Roma. The airport is also directly connected to several destinations in the lagoon by public transit Alilaguna water shuttle services (Blue, Red and Orange lines); by the express Gold Line to Piazza San Marco or by water taxi. From the airport it is possible to reach:

Accidents and incidents

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