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 and second in the Valencian Community after Alicante. It is situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west 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.

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. 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. 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. It ultimately severed the link in September 2012 because of poor demand and rising fuel costs.

Facilities

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens
Air Algérie	Seasonal: Algiers (resumes 14 July 2024)
Air Arabia	Tangier
Air Cairo	Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor
Air Europa	Madrid, Palma de Mallorca
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Serbia	Belgrade
airBaltic	Riga
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
British Airways	London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
easyJet	Berlin, Lisbon, London–Gatwick Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings	Düsseldorf Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Prague, Stuttgart
FlyOne	Seasonal: Chisinau
Iberia	Barcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Funchal, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Nice, Tenerife–North, Vigo
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen
Royal Air Maroc Express	Casablanca
Ryanair	Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Dublin, Eindhoven, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kraków, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sofia, Tangier, Tenerife–North, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław Seasonal: Agadir, Belfast–International, Billund, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Fès, Hahn, Hamburg, Malta, Menorca, Stockholm–Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Oslo
Smartwings	Prague
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva, Zürich
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague Seasonal: Lyon
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
Volotea	A Coruña, Asturias, Bilbao, Lyon, San Sebastian, Verona Seasonal: Olbia
Vueling	Algiers, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Brussels, Gran Canaria, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Tenerife–North Seasonal: Ibiza
Wizz Air	Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest (begins 17 June 2024), Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Milan–Malpensa (begins 29 October 2024), Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Timişoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines	Cologne/Bonn
Swiftair	Ibiza, Madrid

Statistics

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 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

• Manises Air Base