# Venice Marco Polo 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, 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.
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. 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

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

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Venice:
| Airlines | Destinations |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens Seasonal: Thessaloniki |
| Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin |
| Air Arabia | Casablanca |
| Air Cairo | Sharm El Sheikh |
| Air Canada | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson |
| Air Dolomiti | Munich |
| Air Europa | Madrid |
| Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Serbia | Belgrade |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| American Airlines | Seasonal: Dallas/Fort Worth (begins 8 June 2025), Philadelphia, Chicago O'Hare |
| Asiana Airlines | Seasonal charter: Seoul–Incheon |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| British Airways | London–Heathrow |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| China Eastern Airlines | Shanghai–Pudong |
| Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Dubrovnik |
| Cyprus Airways | Seasonal: Larnaca (begins 30 May 2025) |
| Delta Air Lines | Seasonal: Atlanta, New York–JFK |
| easyJet | Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Dubrovnik, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Kos, Larnaca, Mykonos, Olbia, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh |
| El Al | Seasonal: Tel Aviv |
| Emirates | Dubai–International |
| Eurowings | Düsseldorf Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| FLYYO | Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv |
| HiSky | Chișinău |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| ITA Airways | Rome–Fiumicino |
| Jet2.com | Birmingham, Manchester |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw–Chopin |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Lumiwings | Foggia |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
| Ryanair | Barcelona, Bari, Berlin, Brindisi, Bristol, Catania, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marseille, Naples, Palermo, Prague, Reggio Calabria, Santander, Trapani Seasonal: Alghero, Bournemouth, Cologne/Bonn, Helsinki, Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Vienna |
| Saudia | Seasonal: Jeddah (begins 13 June 2025), Riyadh (begins 15 June 2025) |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo |
| SunExpress | Seasonal: Izmir |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| Transavia | Nantes, Paris-Orly |
| Tunisair | Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
| Twin Jet | Seasonal: Nice (begins 31 March 2025) |
| United Airlines | Seasonal: Newark, Washington–Dulles (begins 22 May 2025) |
| Volotea | Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Toulouse Seasonal: Asturias, Cagliari, Karpathos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Pantelleria, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos |
| Vueling | Barcelona |
| Wizz Air | Athens (begins 31 March 2025), Barcelona (begins 30 March 2025), Budapest, Catania, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Iași (ends 29 March 2025), London–Gatwick, Madrid (begins 30 March 2025), Sharm El Sheikh (begins 31 March 2025), Skopje, Tenerife–South, Warsaw–Chopin, Yerevan |

## 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 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 Milan, Padua, Trieste, Verona 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 Busitalia Sita Nord 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 2025.

## 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.
* On 14 September 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808 crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, killing all 3 on board.