Venice Marco Polo Airport
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| Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo |
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| 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 | |||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 04R/22L | 3,300 | 10,827 | Asphalt |
| 04L/22R | 2,780 | 9,121 | Asphalt |
Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ) is an airport located on the Italian mainland near 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 7,076,114 passengers handled in 2007, it is the fourth 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 Delta Air Lines, US Airways, Skyservice and Emirates Airline.
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.
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[edit] Scheduled airlines
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- airBaltic (Riga)
- Air Caraibes (Pointe-à-Pitre)
- Air Dolomiti (Alghero, Nice, Munich)
- Air Europa (Bilbao, Madrid, Vitoria-Gasteiz)
- Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- operated by Régional (Lille)
- Airlinair (Annecy, Paris)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air Nostrum (Valencia)
- Air One (Alghero, Bari, Copenhagen, Gomel, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Malta, Minsk, Naples, Palermo, Palma Di Maiorca, Porto, Rodi, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Alitalia (Bari, Brussels, Cagliari, Dakovica [seasonal], Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pantelleria, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Sarajevo [seasonal])
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Blue Panorama Airlines (Nassau) [begins October 24]
- bmi (London-Heathrow, Manchester [seasonal])
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London Heathrow [begins 26 October])
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Club Air (Bari, Bologna, Lamezia Terme, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Condor Airlines (Berlin, Frankfurt)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
- easyJet (Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, East Midlands, Lyon, London-Gatwick, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- El Al Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv) [seasonal]
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- Eurofly (Bologna [begins 14 September], New York-JFK [begins 14 September])
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flybaboo (Geneva, Nice [begins 16 June])
- Futura International Airways (Palma Di Maiorca, Valencia)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Barcelona)
- Iberworld (Barcelona)
- Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford)
- KLM
- operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- LTE International Airways (Barcelona)
- Lufthansa (Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Hanover, Stuttgart)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Luxair (luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Meridiana (Cagliari, Olbia, Palermo)
- MyAir (Athens, Baneasa, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Bucharest-Băneasa, Cagliari, Casablanca, Catania, Ibiza [summer only], Lamezia Terme, Lille, Madrid, Marrakech, Marseille, Metz/Nancy, Milano Orio Al Serio, Naples [begins 18 October], Olbia, Palermo, Pantelleria, Paris-Orly, Reggio Calabria, Sharm El Sheik, Sofia, Timişoara [begins 22 September])
- Neos (Brussels, Lourdes [seasonal], Siviglia, Tel Aviv [seasonal])
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Rossiya (St. Petersburg)[seasonal]
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stavanger [begins 9 September])
- Skyservice (Rome Fiumicino [seasonal summer], Toronto-Pearson [seasonal summer])
- Sterling Airlines (Aalborg [begins 29 August], Copenhagen [seasonal])
- Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse, Zurich)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
- Thomsonfly (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Adana, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- TUIfly (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover, Memmingen, Münster/Osnabrück, Stuttgart)
- US Airways (Philadelphia) [seasonal]
- Volare Airlines (Oslo [seasonal], Stockholm [seasonal], Tel Aviv [seasonal])
- VLM Airlines (Brussels [seasonal], Rotterdam [seasonal])
- Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga [begins summer 2008], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Seville)
- Windjet (Catania, Oslo, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
[edit] Charter airlines
- Aegean Airlines (Ancona, Heraklion, Thessaloniki)
- Air Caraibes (Paris-Orly, Pointe-à-Pitre)
- Air Finland (Helsinki)
- Air Greenland (Kangerlussuaq) [seasonal]
- Air Pullmantur (Madrid)
- AMC Airlines (Sharm El Sheik)
- American Airlines (New York-JFK [seasonal], Tampa [seasonal])
- Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv) [seasonal]
- Astraeus (Bournemouth, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Blue Line (airline) (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Blue Panorama Airlines (Natal [Seasonal], Paris-Charles de Gaulle [seasonal], Seville [seasonal])
- bmi (Manchester [seasonal], Newcastle [seasonal])
- Cirrus Airlines (Charleroi)
- Condor Airlines (Berlin, Frankfurt)
- Croatia Airlines (Zagabria) [seasonal]
- DonbassAero (Donetsk) [seasonal]
- Eurofly (Sharm El Sheik, Turin)
- Europe Airpost (Dubrovnik, Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Toulouse)
- European Aviation (Dublin, Bournemouth, Dubrovnik, Reykjavik-Kleflavik [seasonal])
- First Choice Airways (Antigua, Bournemouth, London Gatwick, Manchester, Bournemouth)
- Girjet (Barcellona, Berlin Tegel)
- Hello (Basilea, Luxembourg)
- Iberworld (Barcellona, Madrid)
- Israir Airlines (Tel Aviv) [seasonal]
- Livingston (airline) (Lourdes [seasonal], Natal [seasonal])
- LTE International Airways (Ibiza)
- Monarch Airlines (Bergen, Londra-Gatwick, Manchester, Oslo)
- Nouvelair (Ancona, Monastir)
- Pegasus Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Int, Izmir)
- Privilege Style (Asturias, Barcellona, Madrid, Santiago)
- Skyservice (Montreal (begins summer 2008), Rome Fiumicino [seasonal summer], Toronto-Pearson [seasonal summer])
- Spanair (Barcellona, Ibiza, Madrid, Mahon, Palma Di Maiorca)
- Swiftair (Madrid) [seasonal]
- Titan Airways (Bournemouth, Bristol, Farnborough, London-Gatwick, London Stansted, Manchester)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Luxembourg)
- Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia (Bergen [begins 9 September], Gothenburg, Oslo)
- Travel Service (Luxembourg)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir)
- Ural Airlines (Yekaterinburg [begins 27 June])
- Windjet (Oslo) [seasonal]
- XL Airways France (Lille, Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Nantes, Toulouse)
- XL Airways Germany (Stuttgart) [seasonal]
[edit] Cargo airlines
- Aeroflot-Cargo (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Contractors (London-Stansted, Paris-Charles De Gaulle)
- Air Transport International (Newark)
- Alitalia Cargo (Athens, Atlanta, Milan-Malpensa, New York-JFK, Shanghai-Pudong, Tripoli)
- Atlas Air (New York-JFK)
- Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong, London-Heathrow)
- DHL Aviation (London-Heathrow)
- Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
- FedEx Express (Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Memphis, Milan-Malpensa, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Lufthansa Cargo (Bahrain, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich)
- Jade Cargo International (Shenzhen)
- Nippon Cargo Airlines (Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- TNT Airways (Bruxelles)
- UPS Airlines (Atlanta, Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK, Seattle/Tacoma)
- Volga-Dnepr (Yemelyanovo, Moscow-Domodedovo,Sheremetyevo,Vnukovo, Ulyanovsk)
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On March 6, 1967 a Short 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.[1]
- On March 11, 1967 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Aeralpi crashed into a hill while flying from Marco Polo airport while on approach to Belluno Airport in bad weather.[2]
- On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.[3]
- 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 International Airport, but landed safely on a foam carpet.[4]
[edit] External links
- Venice Marco Polo Airport official website (English)
- Airport information for LIPZ at World Aero Data
[edit] References
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 2-102 I-TORE Venezia. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 I-CLAI Mt Visenti. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Piaggio PD.808TP MM61953 Venezia. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 100 I-ALPL Barcelona Airport (BCN). Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
