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| '''Valencia Airport''' in [[Manises]] {{Airport codes|VLC|LEVC}} is the main airport for business travellers to [[Valencia (city in Spain)|Valencia]] and summer travellers to the [[Costa del Azahar]]. It is situated 9km west of Valencia. The airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 6 million passengers passed through the airport in 2007. The airport has one [[Airport terminal|terminal]] and two [[runway|runways]], although the shorter runway 04/22 is not in use and has no [[Instrument Landing System|ILS]] but has a [[helipad]] at the southwestern end.
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| Valencia airport is situated on the [[Autovía A-3|A3]] highway which connects [[Valencia (city in Spain)|Valencia]] with [[Madrid]], as well as being close to the [[A7 (Spain)|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 [[Valencia Metro (Spain)|metro network]] (lines 3 and 5) also connect the airport to the city center (15 minutes), the Railway Station and the Port (fare: € 1,70, summer 2007).
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| 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 700m.
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| It is the main base of [[Iberia Airlines|Iberia]]’s regional carrier, [[Air Nostrum]] and a focus city for [[Ryanair]].
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| == Airlines and destinations == | | == Airlines and destinations == |
| In addition to those listed below, there are several charter flights during the summer from various European countries.
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| *[[Air Berlin]] (Palma de Mallorca)
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| *[[Air Europa]] (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tenerife-South)
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| *[[Air Nostrum]] (Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bologna, Casablanca, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Melilla, Menorca, Murcia, Nice [starts July 2008], Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North, Venezia [restarts 26 July], Vigo, Vienna [begins 26 July])
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| *[[Alitalia]] (Rome-Fiumicino)
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| *[[Blue Air]] (Arad, Bucharest-Băneasa)
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| *[[British Airways]] (London-Gatwick) [begins 26 October]
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| *[[Bulgaria Air]] (Sofia)
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| *[[Clickair]] (Dubrovnik [begins 1 July], London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino)
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| *[[easyJet]] (Bristol, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted)
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| *[[Flybaboo]] (Geneva)
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| *[[Iberia Airlines|Iberia]] (Madrid)
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| *[[Jet2.com]] (Leeds/Bradford)
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| *[[LagunAir]] (León, Valladolid)
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| *[[Lufthansa]] (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg)
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| **operated by [[Lufthansa CityLine]] (Hamburg)
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| *[[Norwegian Air Shuttle]] (Oslo-Rygge)
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| *[[Royal Air Maroc]] (Casablanca)
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| *[[Ryanair]] (Basel, Billund, Bologna-Forli, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin, Eindhoven, East Midlands, Frankfurt-Hahn, Karlsruhe-Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Maastricht, Malta-Luqa, Milan-Bergamo, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Stockholm-Skavsta, Weeze)
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| *[[Scandinavian Airlines System]] (Oslo)
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| *[[Smart Wings]] (Prague)
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| *[[Spanair]] (Barcelona, Lanzarote, Madrid, Munich, Tenerife-South)
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| *[[Sterling Airlines]] (Copenhagen)
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| *[[Swiss International Air Lines]] (Geneva)
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| *[[TAROM]] (Bucharest-Otopeni)
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| *[[Transavia]] (Amsterdam)
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| *[[TUIfly]] (Cologne/Bonn, Hannover, Memmingen, Stuttgart)
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| *[[Volareweb]] (Milan-Malpensa)
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| *[[Vueling Airlines]] (Amsterdam, Brussels, Ibiza [begins 30 May], Milan-Malpensa, Sevilla)
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| *[[Wizz Air]] (Bucharest-Băneasa, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia [begins 12 June])
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| ==Facilities and Transportation== | | ==Facilities and Transportation== |