Venice Marco Polo Airport is the

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Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

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. It is located on the mainland near the village of Tessera, a ''

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'' of the ''

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'' of

located about east of

Mestre Mestre () is a borough of the '' comune'' (municipality) of Venice, on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy. Administratively, Mestre forms (together with the nearby Carpenedo) the ''Municipalit� ...

(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

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and the

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. The airport handled 11,184,608 passengers in 2018, making it the fourth-busiest airport in Italy. The airport is named after

Marco Polo Marco Polo (, , ; 8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in '' The Travels of Marco Polo'' (also known as ''Book of the Marv ...

and serves as a base for

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and

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. Another airport located in the Venice area,

Treviso Airport Treviso Airport, it, Aeroporto di Treviso A. Canova , sometimes Venice-Treviso Airport, is an international airport located west-southwest of Treviso and approximately away from the city of Venice, Italy. It is used mainly by low-cost airli ...

, is sometimes unofficially labelled as ''Venice – Treviso'' and mostly serves low-cost airlines, mainly

and

Overview

A modern terminal was opened in 2002, but it is already at full capacity. The airport is managed by SAVE S.p.A., a company partially owned by local authorities that also controls the smaller

, dedicated mainly to

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s. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller

Terminal

The

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has three floors: the ground floor for arrivals and the second floor for departures. The departure area has 70

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desks and has two lounges airside for customers. The two departure lounges are the "Tintoretto Lounge" for

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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. The departure gates area is separated for

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and non-Schengen flights.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Venice:

Statistics

Ground transportation

The airport is connected to the nearby railway station of Venice Mestre and to the bus terminal of

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in Venice by scheduled bus services; to several destinations in Venice itself by th
Alilaguna
water shuttle (Blue, Red and Orange lines); and to

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by the express Gold Line or

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. From the airport it is possible to reach: * Venice

by ATVO (provincial company) buses and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 ''aerobus''); * Venice, Lido and Murano by Alilaguna (private company) motorboats; * Mestre, the mainland and Venice Mestre railway station, providing connections to

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Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

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and the rest of Italy, by ACTV buses (route 15 and 45) and ATVO buses; * regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by

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buses (national company).

Accidents and incidents

* On 6 March 1967, a

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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. * On 14 September 1993, an

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Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board. *On 10 May 2014, an

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serving as US Airways Flight 715, headed to

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from Venice, made an emergency landing at

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in Ireland after nine flight attendants complained of nausea, dizziness and running eyes. There were no reports of the pilots or passengers falling ill.

References

External links

Official website
* * {{authority control Year of establishment missing Transport in Venice Airports in Veneto 20th-century establishments in Venice Marco Polo