Valencia Airport

Valencia Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Valencia, Valencian: Aeroport de València) (IATA: VLC, ICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport, is the tenth-busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers[3] and second in the Valencian Community after Alicante. It is situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west[2] of the city of Valencia, in Manises. The airport has flight connections to about 20 European countries and 8.53 million passengers passed through the airport in 2019.[1]

For the airport serving Valencia, Venezuela, see Arturo Michelena International Airport.

Valencia Airport

Aeropuerto de Valencia
Aeroport de València
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesValencia, Valencian Community, Spain
LocationManises
Hub for
Elevation AMSL73 m / 240 ft
Coordinates39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W
Websiteaena.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 concrete
Statistics (2022)
Passengers8,114,852
Passengers change 21-22Increase99.0%
Movements73,498
Movements change 21-22Increase48.1%
Cargo (t)13,787
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

History

The airport 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 dispute over subsidies by the airport authorities.[4] Since then the airline has continued to operate out of Valencia and reopened base in 2011.

Delta Air Lines inaugurated a route to New York City, Valencia's first transatlantic service, in June 2009. It operated the flight with a Boeing 757.[5][6] The company initially planned to fly year-round to New York. A few weeks after the maiden flight, however, Delta decided to make the service seasonal due to low ticket sales.[7] It ultimately severed the link in September 2012 because of poor demand and rising fuel costs.[8][9]

Facilities
Airside area near gates 1-4
Exterior of the regional terminal annex
Airside area near gates 12-22
Control tower

Terminal

Valencia Airport consists of a single terminal that has been built in three stages which are directly connected to each other. The landside hall consists of three check-in areas: 1-12 is the newest one with the airport station beneath it, 13-42 is the oldest main building with a currently derelict upper floor, 43-56 is the largest annex housing most airlines. A single central security area leads to the airside with gates 1-22, with gates 1-4 being the newest area designated for non-Schengen flights. Gates 12-22 are located in a separate hall designated as a regional terminal that opened in time for the 2007 America's Cup which allows walk-boarding, mainly for flights by Iberia Regional and low-cost carriers. Some of the gates are equipped with jet bridges. The airside area features several food outlets and shops.

Runway and apron

The sole operational runway has been also lengthened by 50 m (160 ft) by 2007. The former runway 04/22 is not in use and has no ILS but has a helipad at the southwestern end.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Air AlgérieSeasonal: Algiers
Air Arabia Tangier[10]
Air Cairo Cairo,[11] Hurghada,[12] Luxor
Air EuropaMadrid, Palma de Mallorca
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[13]
Air Serbia Belgrade[14]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[15]
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna[16]
British AirwaysLondon–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels[17]
Dan Air Brașov1, Bucharest–Otopeni[18]
easyJetBerlin, Lisbon,[19] London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn[20] Hamburg,[21] Stuttgart
FlyOne Seasonal: Chisinau[22]
IberiaBarcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville
Seasonal: Asturias, Badajoz,[23] Fuerteventura, Funchal,[24] Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Nice,[25] Tenerife–North, Vigo
KLMAmsterdam
LufthansaFrankfurt, Munich
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg[26]
Royal Air Maroc ExpressCasablanca
RyanairBari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham (begins 30 October 2023),[27] Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork,[28] Dublin, Eindhoven, Faro, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[29] Kraków, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen,[30] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tangier, Tenerife–North, Tenerife–South, Toulouse,[29] Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin (begins 30 October 2023),[31] Wrocław (begins 29 October 2023)[31]
Seasonal: Agadir,[32] Belfast–International, Billund, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[33] Fès,[34] Fuerteventura (ends 7 November 2023),[35] Hahn,[31] Hamburg, Malta, Menorca, Stockholm–Arlanda[36][37]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Oslo
Smartwings Prague
Swiss International Air LinesGeneva, Zürich
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TransaviaAmsterdam, Eindhoven, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
Seasonal: Lyon[38]
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
VoloteaA Coruña, Asturias, Bilbao,[39] Lyon, San Sebastian[40]
Seasonal: Olbia[41]
Vueling Algiers, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Brussels, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Gatwick,[42] Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Ibiza, Menorca
Wizz AirBucharest–Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Kraków (begins 3 December 2023),[43] Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Timişoara, Tirana (begins 1 June 2024),[44] Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław (begins 30 October 2023)[43]
  • ^1 Dan Air's flight from Brașov to Valencia makes a stop in Barcelona. However, the airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Barcelona and Valencia. The flight from Valencia to Brașov is direct.

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[45] Cologne/Bonn
Swiftair[46] Ibiza, Madrid

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at VLC airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

Road

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 the city of Valencia by a regular bus line operated by Fernanbus which takes between 30 and 35 minutes[47] and passes through Mislata, Quart de Poblet and Manises.

Rail

The metro network Metrovalencia with lines 3 and 5 on the airport station connect the airport to the city centre (15 minutes), the main Railway Station of the city Estació del Nord (20 minutes) and the port of Valencia (30 minutes).

See also

References
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