Venice Marco Polo Airport is the

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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 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 Municipalità di Mestre-Carpenedo, one ...

(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

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and serves as a base for

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and

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. Another airport located in the Venice area,

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

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 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 airside lounges. The "Tintoretto Lounge" is for

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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

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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 mainland airport has scheduled bus connections to the nearby railway stations of Venice Mestre and

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. 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

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or by

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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 ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

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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). A rail link which will connect the airport to Venice Mestre via the

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is currently under construction and is expected to come into service in 2026.

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.

References

External links

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