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
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:[6]
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on
Phabricator and on
MediaWiki.org.
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[22] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);[23]
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)[23] and ATVO buses;
regional destinations (Treviso, Padua, beaches ...) by ATVO buses and by
Busitalia Sita Nord[24] buses (national company).
Accidents and incidents
On 6 March 1967, a
Short BrothersSC.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.[25]