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Verona Airport
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| Verona Airport Aeroporto di Verona-Villafranca Valerio Catullo Villafranca International Airport Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca |
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| IATA: VRN – ICAO: LIPX | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Joint (Civil and Military) | ||
| Operator | Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.p.A. | ||
| Location | Villafranca, Verona, Italy | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 239 ft / 73 m | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 04/22 | 3,068 | 10,064 | Asphalt |
| Sources: Airport website[1] & DAFIF [2][3] | |||
Verona Airport (IATA: VRN, ICAO: LIPX), also known as Valerio Catullo Villafranca International Airport or simply Verona-Villafranca Airport is an airport serving Verona, Italy. It is situated in the middle of the provinces of Brescia, Mantua, Rovigo, Vicenza, Trento, Bolzano and Verona, serving a population of more than four million inhabitants.
In 1999 Valerio Catullo Airport reached the second position in the special classification of charter traffic after Milano Malpensa and before Roma Fiumicino.
In 2006 the airport passed for the first time 3.000.000 passenger/year and is constantly growing (10%ca).
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Verona Villafranca was a military airport during World War II. It opened to civil traffic in the 1960's with daily flights Rome and charter flights to northern Europe. A terminal was built in the 1970's. The airport is managed by Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.p.A. which was established in 1978. It is partially owned by the municipalities of Villafranca and Sommacampagna and the provinces of Trento, Brescia and Bolzano.[4]
- Air France operated by Regional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Italy (Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Brindisi, Madrid, Naples, Sofia, Warsaw)
- Alpi Eagles (Bari, Lamezia Terme, Naples)
- Alitalia (Rome-Fiumicino)
- Belle Air (Tirana)
- Blue Air (Arad, Bucharest-Băneasa)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Club Air (Ancona, Bari, Brussels-Charleroi, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Tirana)
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Frankfurt, Munich, Wien)
- Meridiana (Cagliari, Catania, Chisinau, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- Windjet (Catania, Moscow-Domodedovo, Palermo)
- Air Europe (Fortaleza, Natal)
- Air Italy (Bari, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, La Romana, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el Sheikh, Zanzibar)
- Atlas Blue (Agadir)
- Blue Panorama (Marsa Alam, Sharm el Sheikh)
- Eurofly (Cairo, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Sharm el Sheikh)
- Futura (Tenerife)
- Israir (Tel Aviv)
- Karthago Airlines (Djerba, Monastir)
- Livingston (Boavista, Fuerteventura, Marsa Alam, Sal, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife)
- LTE International Airways (Tenerife)
- Neos (Arrecife, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Porto Santo, Sal, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife, Zanzibar)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir)
- ^ Aeroporto di Verona, Valerio Catullo, official site
- ^ Airport information for LIPX at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for VRN / LIPX at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Verona Airport - Company Profile, retrieved 2007-10-20.