Venice Marco Polo Airport Шаблон:Airport codes is the international airport of Venice, Italy. It is located on the mainland Шаблон:Convert north of the city in Tessera, a Frazione of the Comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. Due to the importance of Venice as a leisure destination it features flights to European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States, Canada and the Middle East. With 8,751,028 passengers having passed through the airport in 2015, it remains the fifth busiest airport in Italy. The airport is christened after Marco Polo and serves as a base for Volotea and easyJet.
There is another airport located in the Venice area, Treviso Airport, which is sometimes labelled as Venice-Treviso and mostly serves low-cost airlines.
A modern terminal was opened in 2002, but it is already at full capacity. It handles all scheduled and charter flights, including some long-haul flights to North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
The airport is managed by SAVE S.p.A., a company partially owned by local authorities which also controls the smaller Treviso Airport, dedicated mainly to low-cost carriers. The airport was named after the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, whose book introduced Central Asia and China to Europeans.
In August 2014, Air One announced the closure of its operations including the shutdown of its Venice base on 30 September 2014.
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 lounges airside for customers. The two departure lounges are the "Tintoretto Lounge" for SkyTeam customers and the "Marco Polo Room" for customers of all other companies. The third floor of the terminal has offices for the operating company and airlines. The departure gates area is separated into Schengen and Non-Schengen flights. Flights in the Non-Schengen gate area require passengers to pass through Italian Passport Control.
The airport is connected to the nearby railway station of Venice Mestre and to the bus terminal of Piazzale Roma in Venice by scheduled bus services; to several destinations in Venice itself by the Alilaguna water shuttle (Blue, Red and Orange lines); and to Piazza San Marco by the express Gold Line or BookTaxiVenice water taxi. From the airport it is possible to reach: