Venice Marco Polo Airport

International airport serving Venice, Italy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 7.5 kilometres (4.7 miles) northeast of Venice city centre. 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]

Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorSAVE S.p.A.
ServesVenice and Padua, Italy
LocationTessera
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo
Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorSAVE S.p.A.
ServesVenice and Padua, Italy
LocationTessera
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E
WebsiteOfficial website
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VCE is located in Veneto
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Location of the airport in Italy
VCE is located in Italy
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VCE (Italy)
VCE is located in Europe
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt
04L/22R 2,780 9,121 Asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers11,850,336
Passenger change 25-24Increase 2.2%
Movements87,597
Movements change 25-24Increase -1.4%
Cargo (Metric tonnes)61,950
Cargo change 25-24Increase 0.6%
Source: Assaeroporti
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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

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:

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AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens[6]
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin[7]
Air Arabia Casablanca[8]
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh[9]
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau,[10] Toronto–Pearson[11]
Air China Beijing–Capital (begins 2 July 2026)
Air Dolomiti Munich[12]
Air Europa Madrid[13]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[14]
Air Serbia Belgrade[15]
Air Transat Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson[16]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[17]
American Airlines Seasonal: Dallas/Fort Worth,[18] Philadelphia[18]
Asiana Airlines Seasonal charter: Seoul–Incheon[19]
Austrian Airlines Vienna[20]
British Airways London–Heathrow[21]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[22]
China Eastern Airlines Shanghai–Pudong[23]
Condor Frankfurt[24]
Cyprus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca[25]
Delta Air Lines New York–JFK[26]
Seasonal: Atlanta[27]
easyJet Amsterdam,[28] Basel/Mulhouse,[29] Berlin,[30] Bristol,[29] Geneva,[29] London–Gatwick,[31] Lyon,[29] Manchester,[32] Nice,[33] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[30] Paris–Orly[29]
Seasonal: Edinburgh[29]
Egyptair Cairo (begins 29 June 2026)[34]
Emirates Dubai–International[35]
Eurowings Düsseldorf[36]
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[37] Hamburg,[38] Stuttgart[39]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[40]
HiSky Chișinău[41]
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík[42]
Iberia Madrid[43]
ITA Airways Rome–Fiumicino[44]
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham,[45] Manchester[46]
KLM Amsterdam[47]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin[48]
Lufthansa Frankfurt[49]
Luxair Luxembourg[50]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen,[51] Oslo,[52] Stockholm–Arlanda[53]
Nouvelair Seasonal: Tunis (begins 15 June 2026)[54]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways Doha[55]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca[56]
Ryanair Alicante (begins 1 September 2026),[57] Athens,[58] Barcelona,[29] Bari,[29] Berlin (ends 24 October 2026),[59] Brindisi,[60] Bristol,[61] Budapest (resumes 1 September 2026),[62] Cagliari, Catania,[29] Copenhagen, Cork,[63] Dublin,[64] Edinburgh,[65] Lisbon, London–Stansted,[66] Manchester,[60] Naples,[29] Palermo,[29] Reggio Calabria,[67] Seville (resumes 1 September 2026),[68] Trapani[69]
Seasonal: Alghero,[60] Helsinki,[29] Lamezia Terme,[60] Madrid,[29] Vienna[29]
Saudia Seasonal: Jeddah,[70] Riyadh[71]
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen[72]
Seasonal: Oslo[73]
SunExpress Seasonal: Izmir[74]
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich[75]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon[76]
Transavia Nantes, Paris-Orly[77]
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[78]
Twin Jet Seasonal: Nice[79]
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark,[80] Washington–Dulles[81]
Volotea Athens,[82] Bilbao,[83] Bordeaux,[84] Lyon,[85] Marseille,[86] Nantes,[87] Naples,[88] Nice, Toulouse[82][89]
Seasonal: Asturias,[90] Cagliari,[91] Corfu (begins 26 June 2026), Lampedusa,[82] Murcia (begins 28 June 2026),[92] Olbia,[93] Pantelleria,[82] Rhodes (begins 2 July 2026),[94] Santorini[82]
Vueling Barcelona[95]
Wizz Air Alicante (begins 15 September 2026),[96] Athens,[82] Barcelona,[97] Bilbao (begins 14 September 2026),[98] Bordeaux,[99] Budapest,[100][97] Catania,[101] Chișinău,[102] Cluj-Napoca, Kraków,[103] Kutaisi,[104] Larnaca,[105] London–Luton,[106] Madrid,[97] Málaga (begins 14 September 2026),[107] Naples (begins 1 July 2026),[108] Palermo (begins 1 August 2026),[109] Seville (begins 16 September 2026),[110] Sharm El Sheikh,[82][97] Skopje,[82] Tallinn,[111] Tel Aviv,[112] Tenerife–South,[82] Valencia,[113] Warsaw–Chopin,[82] Yerevan[82]
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Statistics

PassengersYear2,000,0004,000,0006,000,0008,000,00010,000,00012,000,0001995200020052010201520202025PassengersAnnual passenger traffic

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[114] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);[115]
  • 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)[115] and ATVO buses;
  • regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by Busitalia Sita Nord[116] buses (national company).

A rail link which will connect the airport to Venice Mestre via the Venice–Trieste railway is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in late 2026, with trains circulating beginning in early 2027.[117]

Accidents and incidents

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