Verona Villafranca Airport, also known as Valerio Catullo Airport, is located 10 km southwest of Verona, Italy. The airport is located next to the intersection of the A4 Milan-Venice and A22 Modena-Brenner motorways. The airport serves more than 4 million inhabitants living in the cities of Verona, Brescia, Mantua and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. Villafranca is a preferred port for private jet flights to the north of Italy.
Verona-Villafranca Airport is equipped with a fog dispersal device to allow flight operations to continue when visibility is low. This system has been in operation since 2003 and allows pilots to land in visibility distances as low as 75 metres. The runway is approved for ILS Category IIIb approach.
Two terminals, departure and arrival, are located side by side at the airport. The departures hall houses check-in facilities on the east side. The lounge is located on the east wing of the first floor. The main bus stop is located just outside the arrivals hall.
Italy private jet charter prices
Although Verona Villafranca Airport air charter fees depend on variables such as the number of passengers, departure airport, flight time, aircraft position, flight date, the prices for private jet charter from Istanbul → Verona are as follows.
| Light Jet | 13.450 EUR |
| Midsize Jet | 20.350 EUR |
| Heavy Jet | 25.800 EUR |
These prices are average amounts and you can contact us on our flight reservation screen or by phone for the most accurate price information.
The history of Verona Villafranca Airport, one of the oldest ports in Italy
Villafranca Air Base was a military airport during the First World War. The port was opened to civilian traffic in the early 1910s, with daily scheduled connections to Rome and charter flights to destinations in northern Europe.
In the late 1970s a passenger terminal, offices and handling facilities were built at Villafranca Airport as part of the first community project realised by the Province of Verona, the Commune of Verona and the local Chamber of Commerce. The management community Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.P.A. was established in December 1978. The ownership is currently shared between the provincial governments of Veneto (Villafranca di Verona and Sommacampagna), Lombardy (Province of Brescia), Trentino (second main shareholder) and Alto Adige/Südtirol.
In 1990, the passenger terminal was expanded to cope with the ever-increasing air traffic and access to the airport was improved with a road connection to Verona’s new ring road (SS12) in preparation for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
In 1995 the airport reached the record of handling one million passengers per year. In 1999, the airport was ranked second in Italy in the ‘Special Classification of Charter Traffic’, after Milan Malpensa Airport and Rome Fiumicino Airport.
During the Bosnian War, the airport was used as a staging area by NATO aircraft. In May 2006, the new arrivals terminal Terminal 2 was inaugurated by Cesare De Piccoli, Deputy Minister of Transport, and Luca Zaia, Vice President of the Veneto Region. This additional terminal is located right next to the original building, now known as Terminal 1. As a result of the expansion programme, the airport’s capacity has doubled. Terminal 1 is therefore only used for departures and Terminal 2 for arrivals.
Air traffic continued to increase in the 2010s, with 3,385,794 passengers travelling through the airport in 2011.
In 2015, Ryanair resumed service to the airport with scheduled flights to Palermo, London Stansted and Brussels. Many airlines converted charter routes into regular services during the 2015-16 winter season: Finnair flies between Verona and Helsinki, AirBaltic between Verona and Riga. However, flights between Paris and Verona operated by Air France were cancelled at the end of October 2015 and replaced by flights operated by its low-cost subsidiary Transavia.
Places to visit in Verona
Verona, built on the largest plain in Northern Italy, is known for hosting the immortal love of Romeo and Juliet. Verona is a magnificent city, all of which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The 7 most important points to visit in the city are as follows: The House of Juliet (Casa di Giulietta), which is considered to be the house where Juliet, one of the protagonists of Shakespear’s best-known work Romeo and Juliet, lived, the Verona Arena and Amphitheatre (Arena di Verona), which once hosted emperors and glorious gladiators, the Stone Bridge (Ponte Pietra), one of the symbols of the city, Verona Cathedral (Duomo di Verona), the most magnificent building in the city, Erbe Square (Piazza Delle Erbe), which is considered the centre of Verona, San Pietro Castle (Castel San Pietro), which offers a bird’s eye view of the city, and Lake Garda (Lago di Garda), the largest lake in the country.
Verona Villafranca airport information
Villafranca Airport, which is very close to the city centre, offers transportation options such as taxi, bus and car rental. Taxis are available 24/7 at the taxi ranks located outside the port arrival terminal. There is no fare difference between taxis of 3 different companies. It takes about 15 minutes to get to the city by taxi.
Thanks to the shuttle service organised by Aerobus, it takes about 15 minutes to reach Porta Nuova Train Station in Verona city centre from the airport. Shuttle bus number 199 departs every 20 minutes between 06:30 am and 23:30 pm every day.
There are also offices of different car rental companies in the port.
