Valencia Airport in Manises (IATA Aiport Code: VLC), is the 8th busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers flying and the second in the region after Alicante.
Also known as Manises Airport, it is situated 9km west of the city of Valencia.
Valencia’s airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 5.7 million passengers passed through the airport in 2008. The airport has one terminal and two runways and a helipad at the southwestern end.
Valencia airport is situated on the A3 highway which connects Valencia with Madrid, as well as being close to the A7, to Barcelona and into France. 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 center (15 minutes), the Railway Station and the Port (fare: € 1,90, winter 2009).
A new regional terminal, expanded car parking facilities and apron area were constructed for the 2007 America’s Cup. The runway has been also lengthened by 500m.
Airlines and destinations
In addition to those listed below, there are several charter flights during the summer from various European countries.
- Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
- Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tenerife-South)
- Alitalia (Rome-Fiumicino)
- Blue Air (Arad, Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa)
- Clickair (Bucharest-Otopeni, Malta, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK)
- easyJet (Bristol, London-Gatwick)
- Flybaboo (Geneva)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt) [ends 28 June]
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Rygge) [begins 28 June]
- Ryanair (Bologna, Brussels-Charleroi, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Hahn, London-Stansted, Madrid, Milan-Bergamo, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Weeze)
- Smart Wings (Prague [resumes 11 June])
- Spanair (Barcelona, Lanzarote, Madrid, Munich, Tenerife-South)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
- Transavia (Amsterdam)
- TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn, Memmingen, Stuttgart)
- Vueling Airlines (Amsterdam, Brussels, Ibiza [begins 12 June], Seville)
- Wizz Air (Bucharest-Băneasa, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Timişoara)
