Venice Marco Polo Airport

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Venice Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ; Italian Aeroporto di Venezia- Tessera " Marco Polo ") is the international airport of the Italian city of Venice. He was named after the commercial traveler Marco Polo and manufactures in about 7 million passengers.

In Greater Venice, there is also the mainly used by low cost airlines Treviso Airport and Venice Lido Airfield for General Aviation.

2012 8.188.455 passengers were handled at the airport.

Location and Transport

The airport is located on the Terraferma Veneto, close to the lagoon of Venice, near the village of Tessera and the island of the same name, about eight kilometers each crow flies from Mestre Venice to the west and to the southwest away.

The connection between the airport and the city is provided by buses, taxis, motor boats and water buses. Bus services between the Piazzale Roma in Venice and Marco Polo Airport via the ACTV No. 5 ( yellow bus, city line), or ATVO ( blue bus, private). Taxis are available at the airport. Moreover, it is to drive from the airport to Fondamenta Nuove, St Mark's Square or the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station possible by water bus. The marina is located immediately southwest of the airport of the passenger terminal.

Airlines and destinations

From Venice airport, primarily Italian and European cities destinations are served in the point- to- point traffic, including, for example, London and Madrid. It is used despite its proximity to Treviso airport also by low cost airlines such as easyJet.

In German-speaking Lufthansa flies from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich to Venice, Air Berlin from Berlin- Tegel, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. UPS Airlines flies several times a week a cargo flight to Cologne -Bonn. Austrian Airlines flies from Vienna, Swiss from Zurich to the lagoon city. German Wings flies from Hanover and Stuttgart in the lagoon city.

Long-distance connections currently exist only to New York City with Delta Air Lines, Dubai with Emirates and Doha with Qatar Airways as well as seasonal addition to Atlanta ( Delta Airlines), Philadelphia (U.S. Airways ), Toronto, and Montreal (both Air Transat ).

In addition to the mainly continental transport are seasonal conducted to and from Venice charter flights. The airport of private jets and aircraft shall be flown.

History

In the civilian traffic line was used in the 1920s and 1930s in Italy mainly flying boats that could be used to best effect in the lagoon of Venice.

Today's airfield Venice Lido was the first commercial airport in Venice for conventional land planes. It was established in late 1915 as a military airfield and 1926 released for civilian air traffic. From the airport to the Lido there was, among other scheduled flights to Vienna, Munich and on to Berlin. Following the renewed military use during the Second World War, the civilian scheduled service was resumed in 1947. The airfield came with the introduction of larger commercial aircraft to its limits. After some airlines had decided in 1952 to switch to the Treviso airport, it was decided, despite considerable resistance to not expand and instead to build a new commercial airport on the mainland at Tessera airfield on the Lido. For this purpose, an extensive 1500 acre Barena was concreted. The new airport was inaugurated in 1960.

The current terminal came to 2002.

From 1 June to 4 December 2011, the Treviso airport remained closed due to construction, so all regular flights leading thereto, for example, of Ryanair, were handled at this time in Venice.

Expansion plans

The airport operator SAVE and the Regional Government of Veneto want to expand the airport gradually and thus strengthen its leading role in North-East Italy on. The airport is to be linked not only to the regional S- Bahn network Sistema Metropolitano ferroviario Regional, but also to the high- speed network of the Italian Railways. Another, to the existing slopes parallel start and runway north of the current airport site planned. The terminal then located between the slopes is to be extended in a northwesterly direction, the run-up to the north. If necessary, may arise after the pattern of the airport Atlanta satellite terminals on the extended advance.

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