Venice Marco Polo Airport Aeroporto di Venezia-Tessera Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo
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		45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194 (Venice Marco Polo Airport)Coordinates: 45°30′19″N 012°21′07″E / 45.50528°N 12.35194°E / 45.50528; 12.35194 (Venice Marco Polo Airport)
Website		www.veniceairport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
04R/22L	3,300	10,827	Asphalt
04L/22R	2,780	9,121	Bitumen
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ) is an airport located on the Italian mainland 4.3 NM (8.0 km; 4.9 mi) north of Venice, Italy, in Tessera, a frazione of the comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who is considered the European rediscoverer of China.

With 6.717.600 passengers having passed through the airport in 2009, it is the fifth 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 flights to the Middle East and North America.

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, to several destinations in the Venice itself by the Alilaguna water shuttle (Blue, Red and Orange lines), and to Piazza San Marco by the express Gold Line water taxi.

Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Terminal, airlines and destinations

The airport terminal has three floors, the ground floor for arrivals and the first floor for departures. The departure area has 60 check-in desks and has two lounges airside for customers. The two departure lounges are the "Tintoretto Lounge" for SkyTeam customers and the "Marco Polo Room" for customers of all other companies. The third floor of the terminal has offices for the operating company and airlines.

Cargo airlines

Airside of the terminal building
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Accidents and incidents

• On March 6, 1967 a Short Brothers 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.
• On March 11, 1967 a de Havilland Canada Twin Otter operated by Aeralpi crashed into a hill while flying from Marco Polo airport while on approach to Belluno Airport in bad weather.
• On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.
• 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 Airport, but landed safely on a foam carpet.

Transport

From the Venice airport, the buses ACTV and ATVO bring passengers to the two Venice railway stations:

• Venice-Santa Lucia (from where you can reach the Piazzale Roma square in 10 minutes on foot acrossing the "Ponte della Costituzione" bridge)
• Venice-Mestre (on the mainland, convenient for connections to Milan, Verona, and the rest of Italy).

Some additional buses are operated by Terravision.

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