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:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens[6] Seasonal: Thessaloniki[citation needed]
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 Dolomiti	Munich[12]
Air Europa	Madrid[13]
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle[14]
Air Serbia	Belgrade[15]
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau,[16] Toronto–Pearson[17]
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga[18]
American Airlines	Seasonal: Dallas/Fort Worth,[19] Philadelphia[19]
Asiana Airlines	Seasonal charter: Seoul–Incheon[20]
Austrian Airlines	Vienna[21]
British Airways	London–Heathrow[22]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[23]
China Eastern Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong[24][25]
Condor	Frankfurt (begins 1 May 2026)[26]
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal: Dubrovnik[citation needed]
Cyprus Airways	Seasonal: Larnaca[27]
Delta Air Lines	Seasonal: Atlanta,[28] New York–JFK[29]
easyJet	Amsterdam,[30] Basel/Mulhouse,[31] Berlin,[32] Bristol,[31] Geneva,[31] London–Gatwick,[33] Lyon,[31] Manchester,[34] Nice,[35] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[32] Paris–Orly[31] Seasonal: Edinburgh[31]
El Al	Seasonal: Tel Aviv[citation needed]
Emirates	Dubai–International[36]
Eurowings	Düsseldorf[37] Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[38] Hamburg,[39] Stuttgart[40]
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki[41]
FLYYO	Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv[citation needed]
HiSky	Chișinău[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]
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways	Doha[54]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca[55]
Ryanair	Barcelona,[31] Bari,[31] Berlin,[56] Brindisi,[56] Bristol,[57] Catania,[31] Copenhagen, Cork,[58] Dublin,[59] Edinburgh,[60] Lisbon, London–Stansted,[61] Manchester,[56] Naples,[31] Palermo,[31] Reggio Calabria,[62] Trapani[63] Seasonal: Alghero,[56] Bournemouth,[64] Cologne/Bonn,[65] Helsinki,[31] Lamezia Terme,[56] Madrid,[31] Vienna[31]
Saudia	Seasonal: Jeddah,[66] Riyadh[66]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen,[67] Oslo[68]
SunExpress	Seasonal: Izmir[69]
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich[70]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon[71]
Transavia	Nantes, Paris-Orly[72]
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[73]
Twin Jet	Seasonal: Nice[74]
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark,[75] Washington–Dulles[76]
Volotea	Athens, Bilbao,[77] Bordeaux,[78] Lyon,[79] Marseille,[80] Nantes,[81] Naples,[82] Nice, Toulouse[83] Seasonal: Asturias,[84] Cagliari,[85] Karpathos,[citation needed] Lampedusa,[citation needed] Mykonos,[citation needed] Olbia,[citation needed] Pantelleria,[citation needed] Santorini,[citation needed] Skiathos,[citation needed] Zakynthos[citation needed]
Vueling	Barcelona[86]
Wizz Air	Athens,[87] Barcelona,[88] Budapest,[88] Catania, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Madrid,[88] Sharm El Sheikh,[88] Skopje, Suceava (begins 16 December 2025),[89] 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^[90] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);^[91]
• 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)^[91] and ATVO buses;
• regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by Busitalia Sita Nord^[92] 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 come into service in 2026.^[93]

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.^[94]
• On 14 September 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board.^[95]