Terminal
Every flight at Marco Polo shares one terminal building — the airport’s own pages never split it into numbered halves. A moving walkway on an elevated, covered link connects it to a dedicated Water Terminal, the covered dock where the Alilaguna boat lines and private water taxis load and unload; a development plan running to 2037 is adding a new wing, with the airport saying its first section reached the public in the third quarter of 2025.
Check-in counters are spread across the ground and first floors, linked by escalators and lifts reachable from both inside and outside the building. Desk numbers are not fixed to an airline: they are assigned roughly three hours before an intercontinental departure, and at least two hours before every other flight, shown on the terminal monitors.
Two checkpoints: Schengen and non-Schengen flights clear security on the first floor near entrance 5, while flights direct to the United States use a separate checkpoint on the ground floor near entrance 8. New screening scanners mean liquids, aerosols and electronics can stay inside hand luggage — but the 100 ml-per-container, 1-litre-total rule for liquids still applies.
There is no railway station on site. Buses reach both of Venice’s stations: ACTV line 15 and an ATVO express to Venezia Mestre, and ACTV line 5 with an ATVO express to Piazzale Roma, a five-minute walk across the Calatrava Bridge from Venezia Santa Lucia.
PRM call points sit at the terminal’s ground-floor entrance 1, first-floor entrance 7, in the P1 car park and rental-car area, at the short-stay car park, and at docks 2 and 13 in the marina — the airport even keeps a floating dock there for assisted boarding. Airlines need 48 hours’ notice to arrange it; then reach the check-in desk 60 minutes before a national/Schengen flight or 90 minutes before a non-Schengen one.