Valencia Airport

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Valencia Airport
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IATA: VLCICAO: LEVC
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aena
Serves Valencia, Spain
Location Manises
Hub for Air Nostrum
Elevation AMSL 73 m / 240 ft
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website aena-aeropuertos.es
Map
VLC is located in Spain
VLC
VLC
Location within Spain
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,215 10,548 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 4.752.020
Passenger change 11-12 Decrease4.57%
Aircraft Movements 59.824
Movements change 11-12 Decrease15%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Valencia Airport in Manises (IATA: VLCICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport,[3] is the eighth busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers[4] and second in the region after Alicante. It is situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west[2] of the city of Valencia. The airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 4.98 million passengers passed through the airport in 2011.[1]

Overview

File:Metrovalencia Línea 5.jpg
Valencia Airport metro station

Valencia airport is situated adjacent to the Autovía A-3 highway which connects Valencia with Madrid and is also close to the Autovía A-7 coastal route to Barcelona. It is connected to Valencia by a regular bus line (MetroBus) which takes 45 minutes, while the shuttle service (Aerobus) to city centre takes 20 minutes. The metro network (lines 3 and 5) also connect the airport to the city centre (15 minutes), the Railway Station and the Port.

A new regional terminal, expanded car parking facilities and apron area have been recently constructed in time for the 2007 America's Cup. The runway has been also lengthened by 50 m (160 ft). The airport has one terminal and one runway. The former runway 04/22 is not in use and has no ILS but has a helipad at the southwestern end.

It is the main base of Iberia's regional carrier Air Nostrum. Irish low-cost airline Ryanair used the airport as a hub since 2007 but decided to close it in November 2008 following a row over subsidies by the airport authorities.[5] Since then the airline has continued to operate out of Valencia but as a relatively large destination airport, and not a base. Ryanair later announced on 23 June 2010 that it would re-open its Valencia base with 2 based aircraft and 10 new destinations from November 2010.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Europa Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Málaga (begins 17 February 2016),[6] Menorca, Tenerife–South
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
Blue Air Bucharest
British Airways London-Gatwick[7]
Darwin Airline Geneva
easyJet London–Gatwick
Eurowings Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Vienna
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum
Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Arrecife, Asturias, Fuerteventura
KLM Amsterdam (begins 23 April 2016)
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Niki Seasonal: Vienna
Royal Air Maroc
operated by Royal Air Maroc Express
Casablanca
Ryanair Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Bologna, Brussels, Charleroi, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Ibiza, London–Stansted, Pisa, Rome–Ciampino, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife–South, Treviso, Weeze
Seasonal: Bari, Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Manchester, Marseille, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Santander, Trieste, Turin (begins 1 April 2016)
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines
Seasonal: Prague
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Austrian Airlines
Geneva
TAP Portugal
operated by Portugália
Lisbon
TAROM Bucharest
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Seasonal: Munich (begins 30 May 2016)[8]
Transavia France Lyon (begins 16 May 2016), Paris–Orly
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk
Volotea Asturias
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Nantes, Vigo
Vueling Algiers (begins 19 March 2016),[9] Amsterdam, A Coruña (begins 27 March 2016), Bilbao, Brussels, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville
Seasonal: Ibiza, Milan–Malpensa, Santiago de Compostela
Wizz Air Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara
Windrose Airlines Seasonal CharterKiev

Public Transport

Public Metrovalencia subway network allows connection via Xàtiva metro station with the city center and link to the main Estació del Nord train station within 20 minutes.[10]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Spanish AIP (AENA)
  3. "Sales Offices in Spain." Spanair. Retrieved on 6 May 2009.
  4. AENA passenger and aircraft movements for 2008
  5. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/10/ux-agp-feb16/
  7. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. Transavia Opens Munich Base from late-March 2016
  9. http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/30/vy-vlcalg-s16/
  10. metrovalencia.es - Timetable

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