Venice Marco Polo Airport

"Venice Airport" redirects here. For the airport in the United States, see Venice Municipal Airport.

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]

Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
IATA: VCE ICAO: LIPZ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	SAVE S.p.A.
Serves	Venice and Padua, Italy
Location	Tessera
Focus city for	easyJet[1] Ryanair[2] Volotea Wizz Air[3]
Elevation AMSL	7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates	45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E
Website	veneziaairport.it
Map
VCE Location of the airport in Italy Show map of Veneto VCE VCE (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt 04L/22R 2,780 9,121 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 9,319,156 Passenger change 21-22 171.1% Movements 79,171 Movements change 21-22 102.1% Cargo 47,585 Cargo change 21-22 7.6%
Source: Assaeroporti

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

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

View of the apron

Air traffic control

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

Airlines	Destinations
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
Binter Canarias	Seasonal: Gran Canaria
British Airways	London–Heathrow[13]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[14]
China Eastern Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong[15][16]
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal: Dubrovnik
Delta Air Lines	Seasonal: Atlanta,[17] New York–JFK
easyJet	Amsterdam, Athens,[18] Berlin, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester,[19] Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Dubrovnik,[20] Hurghada, Ibiza, Kefalonia,[21] 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[22]
HiSky	Chișinău[23]
Iberia	Madrid[24]
ITA Airways	Rome–Fiumicino
Jet2.com	Birmingham,[25] Manchester
KLM	Amsterdam[26]
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Luxair	Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways	Doha[27]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair[28][29]	Barcelona, Bari, Berlin, Brindisi, Bristol, Catania, Cork,[30] Dublin, Edinburgh, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marseille, Naples, Palermo, Prague,[31] Reggio Calabria,[32] Santander, Trapani[33] Seasonal: Alghero, Bournemouth,[34] Cologne/Bonn,[34] Helsinki,[34] Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Vienna[34]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo[35]
SunExpress	Seasonal: Izmir
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich[36]
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)[37]
Volotea	Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Toulouse[38] Seasonal: Asturias, Cagliari, Karpathos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Pantelleria, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
Vueling	Barcelona
Wizz Air	Catania, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, London–Gatwick, Prague, 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:

• Venice Piazzale Roma by ATVO (provincial company) buses^[39] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);^[40]
• Venice, Lido and Murano by Alilaguna (private company) motorboats;
• Mestre, the mainland and Venice Mestre railway station, providing connections to Milan, Padua, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy, by ACTV buses (route 15 and 45)^[40] and ATVO buses;
• regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by Busitalia Sita Nord^[41] buses (national company).

Accidents and incidents

• On 6 March 1967, a Short Brothers SC.7 Skyvan 2–102, operated by Soc. Aeralpi, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, crashing into the lagoon. All 3 on board survived.^[42]
• On 14 September 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board.^[43]

References

1. "Easyjet launches Venice base". Business Traveller.
2. "New Ryanair Base At Venice Marco Polo Airport". ryanair.com. 7 October 2021.
3. "WIZZ AIR CONTINUES ITS EXPANSION IN ITALY WITH THE OPENING OF ITS 7TH BASE IN VENICE". wizzair.com. 6 October 2021.
4. "Statistiche Dicembre 2017". 24 January 2018.
5. "Easyjet opens Venice base". February 2016.
6. veniceairport.it – Seasonal schedule retrieved 30 October 2016
7. "Air Cairo apre la Venezia – Sharm el Sheikh". 7 February 2024.
8. "Air Europa Returns to Venice this Summer". Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
9. "Air France NS24 Paris European Frequency Variations – 21JAN24". Aeroroutes.
10. "Air Serbia NS24 Frequency Variations – 25FEB24".
11. "Ciao Italia! American Airlines to offer largest-ever schedule to Italy in 2025". American Airlines Newsroom. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
12. Liu, Jim (4 November 2024). "American Airlines NS25 Intercontinental Network Changes – 03NOV24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
13. "British Airways NW24 Heathrow – Europe Frequency Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
14. "Brussels Airlines NW24 Europe Frequency Changes – 26MAY24". Aeroroutes.
15. "Orario stagionale".
16. "Venezia si prepara ad accogliere il nuovo volo diretto per Shanghai". www.ttgitalia.com.
17. "Delta NS25 Europe Network Changes – 04AUG24". AeroRoutes.
18. "easyJet apre 7 rotte per l'estate 2024". 16 January 2024.
19. "easyJet Adds Manchester-based A321neo Service in NW24". Aeroroutes.
20. "EASYJET NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 11DEC22". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
21. "Flights from Venice Marco Polo to Kefalonia: VCE to EFL Flights + Flight Schedule".
22. "Finnair NS23 European Frequency Variations – 23JAN23". Aeroroutes.
23. "HiSky Europe NS23 Network Additions". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
24. "Iberia NW24 Systemwide Flight Number Changes". Aeroroutes.
25. "Jet2 NS25 A321neo Network Expansion – 14JUL24". AeroRoutes.
26. "KLM NS24 European Service Changes – 21JAN24". Aeroroutes.
27. "Qatar Airways Adds Hamburg; Resumes Venice in NS24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
28. "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
29. "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
30. "Ryanair NS24 Network Additions Summary – 14JUL24". AeroRoutes.
31. "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA". centreforaviation.com.
32. "Reggio Calabria è base Ryanair. 8 rotte e primo volo per Bologna". 15 February 2024.
33. "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA". centreforaviation.com.
34. "Ryanair Removes 1 Aircraft & Closes 6 Routes at Venice Marco Polo Airport Due to Venice Municipality's Excessive Tax Increase – Ryanair's Corporate Website". 28 June 2023.
35. "SAS NS23 EUROPEAN NETWORK ADDITIONS". AeroRoutes. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
36. "SWISS NW24 Europe Frequency Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
37. "United Airlines (UAL) Adds Eight New International Destinations". StreetInsider. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
38. "Volotea cresce a Venezia e annuncia nuova rotta verso Tolosa" [Volotea grews in venice and announces ner route to Tolouse]. ansa.it (in Italian). 28 November 2023.
39. "Venice Airport bus service". www.atvo.it.
40. "linee urbane | ACTV".
41. "Information" (PDF). www.fsbusitalia.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
42. "ASN Aircraft accident Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 2–102 I-TORE Venezia". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
43. "ASN Aircraft accident Piaggio PD.808TP MM61953 Venezia". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 10 March 2008.

External links

Media related to Venice Marco Polo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for LIPZ at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for VCE at Aviation Safety Network