Verona airport

Aeroporto di Verona-Villafranca
Characteristics
ICAO code	LIPX
IATA code	VRN
Coordinates	45 ° 23 '45 "  N , 10 ° 53' 19"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 23 '45 "  N , 10 ° 53' 19"  E
Height above MSL	73 m (240  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	12 km southwest of Verona
Street	A22 , A4 , SR62
Local transport	Direct bus to the central station "Porta Nuova"
Basic data
opening	1916
operator	ASG
Terminals	1
Passengers	3,638,088 (2019)
Air freight	1,155.2 t (2019)
Flight movements	33,138 (2019)
Start-and runway
04/22	3068 m × 45 m asphalt

The Verona airport ( ital. Aeroporto di Verona-Villafranca " Valerio Catullo " ) is an Italian airport , which is used for civilian and military purposes. It is located twelve kilometers southwest of Verona near Villafranca di Verona . There are no more airborne units on the military section to the west of the runway. The civil terminal is located in the far northeast.

Transport links

The airport is directly adjacent to one of the most important motorway junctions in Italy to the southwest . This is where the A22 Brenner motorway and the A4, which runs in a west-east direction, meet. Both of these motorways can be used to reach Verona, cities such as Trento , Vicenza , Mantua and Brescia , Lake Garda and the southern Alps .

Verona city center is connected to the airport by a well-developed road. In addition to taxis, there are shuttle buses that go to Porta Nuova main station every 20 minutes . Dossobuono train station is located just under a kilometer southeast of the terminal on the Verona – Mantua railway line . This is not considered an airport train station. The airport is to have its own connection to this railway line and thus to Verona Porta Nuova .

View over the apron to the north

Airlines

Verona Airport is currently served by twenty airlines. Most scheduled flights from Verona are offered by Eurowings , Alitalia and Meridiana . The other airlines that fly to Verona include: Aer Lingus , Air Dolomiti , Air Moldova , Alba Star , Alitalia, Blue Panorama Airlines , British Airways , Easyjet , Ernest Airlines , Flybe , Fly One , Germania , Lufthansa , Meridiana , Neos , Norwegian , Ryanair , Siberian Airlines , Transavia , Thomson Airways , Wizz Air , Volotea and Vueling . Air Dolomiti is headquartered in Dossobuono, Verona-Villafranca is its home airport, but its hub is Munich Airport .

Military use

hangar

A reconnaissance squadron of the Italian Air Force, equipped with AMX fighter aircraft, was located on the military part of the airport until the 1990s . The armored aircraft shelters for two squadrons are still there. The military part only serves as an advanced base and as accommodation for support units.

Verona-Villafranca is connected to the Northern Italy Pipeline System .

Incidents

• On December 13, 1995, an Antonov An-24 ( YR-AMR ) operated by Romavia for Banat Air crashed into the ground shortly after taking off from Verona Airport due to a stall . The reason was that the machine had not been de-iced despite snowfall. In addition, it was overloaded by at least two tons. All 49 people on board were killed (see also Banat Air Flight 166 ) .

Other airports

In the north-west of Verona is the Verona-Boscomantico airport . There is an aero club and an association for skydivers .

The airport company Aeroporto di Verona / Aeroporti Sistema del Garda operates not only the Verona-Villafranca airport but also the Brescia-Montichiari airport , which is a little further to the west and is served by low-cost and charter airlines.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} assaeroporti.com
2. ↑ "Airlines from Verona Airport" ,fluggesellschaft.de, accessed on January 17, 2015
3. ^ Accident report YR-AMR, Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 21, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Verona Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport operators Verona and Brescia
• Website 3º Stormo