Verona

Verona-Villafranca Airport is situated 3.1 miles southwest of the ancient Italian city of Verona, close to many famous winter sports and skiing resorts. In 1999 the airport was declared the second most important in Italy for charter traffic after Milan-Malpensa. The airport has a sophisticated fog-dispersal mechanism which allows aircraft movement in low visibility.

Verona-Villafranca Airport serves the city of Verona, the province of Brescia with its four million inhabitants, and the huge influx of tourist to this historic area and its ski resorts. Domestic flights to Italian cities and towns and international flights to destinations across Europe, North Africa and Russia result in annual passenger movements of nearly four million.

Verona-Villafranca Airport has one runway and two adjacent terminals. The western part of the airport is still used by the Italian Air Force, and was originally a military airport. Its revenue accounts for more than 12 per cent of the region’s gross domestic product largely due to the development of tourism in the area.

A number of major carriers use the airport, including Aeroflot, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Malta and British Airways, providing direct and long-haul flights to cities across the world. The airport’s success story is the smaller and low-cost carriers who fly domestic routes and bring the tourists to the area.

The most popular routes apart from the major world cities of London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris, Moscow and Vienna, are the sunshine routes to the Mediterranean, including Greece and the Greek Islands and North Africa. Flights to Northern Europe and the Canary Islands are also gaining in popularity.