Valencia Airport

Valencia Airport
IATA: VLC – ICAO: LEVC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena
Serves		Valencia
Location		Manises
Hub for		Air Nostrum Ryanair Vueling Wondair
Elevation AMSL		73 m / 240 ft
Coordinates		39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167Coordinates: 39°29′22″N 00°28′54″W / 39.48944°N 0.48167°W / 39.48944; -0.48167
Map
VLC Location within Spain
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
12/30	3,215	10,548	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			4,934,272
Passenger change 09-10			3.9%
Aircraft Movements			77,802
Movements change 09-10			4.1%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Valencia Airport in Manises (IATA: VLC, ICAO: LEVC), also known as Manises Airport,^[3] is the 8th 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 4.9 million passengers passed through the airport in 2010.^[1] 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.

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 also well served by public transport. It is connected to Valencia by a regular bus line (MetroBus) which takes 45 minutes, while the shuttle service (Aerobus) to city centre takes only 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).

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 since 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 Berlin	Cologne/Bonn [ends 6 November], Palma de Mallorca
Air Europa	Arrecife, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tenerife-South
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Blue Air	Bucharest-Băneasa
Darwin Airline	Geneva
Delta Air Lines	Seasonal: New York-JFK
EasyJet	London-Gatwick
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	A Coruña, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Jerez, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, León, Madrid, Málaga, Melilla, Minorca, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North, Valladolid, Vigo Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Funchal, Lisbon, Marrakech
Lufthansa	Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012] , Munich [begins 31 March 2012]
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Düsseldorf
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air	Düsseldorf
Niki	Palma de Mallorca, Vienna
Orbest Orizonia Airlines	Seasonal: Lanzarote, Minorca, Tenerife South
Royal Air Maroc operated by RAM Express	Casablanca
Ryanair	Bari, Beauvais-Tillé, Bologna, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari, East Midlands, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Hahn, Ibiza, Lanzarote, London-Stansted, Malaga, Malta, Milan-Orio al Serio, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Oslo-Rygge, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-South, Trieste, Trapani, Venice-Treviso, Weeze Seasonal: Dublin, Manchester [begins 1 April], Rygge
Spanair	Algiers, Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
TAP Portugal operated by Portugália	Lisbon
Transavia.com	Amsterdam
Travel Service Airlines operated by Smart Wings	Seasonal: Prague
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Vueling Airlines	Amsterdam, Brussels, Ibiza, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino
Wizz Air	Bucharest-Băneasa, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara
Wizz Air Ukraine	Kyiv-Zhulyany

References

1. ^ ^{a b} AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements
2. ^ ^{a b} Spanish AIP (AENA)
3. ^ "Sales Offices in Spain." Spanair. Retrieved on 6 May 2009.
4. ^ AENA passenger and aircraft movements for 2008
5. ^ Valencia Loses 750,000 Passengers and 750 Jobs as Ryanair Closes Base

External links

	Spain portal
	Aviation portal

• Aena.es Valencia Information Official Airport Website (in English)
• [1] Flightaware
• [2] Flight tracker
• Current weather for LEVC at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for VLC at Aviation Safety Network