Getting around VLC
Aena places Valencia Airport eight kilometres west of the city, and most of what it carries is international traffic — the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom send the most passengers, while Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza and Madrid lead the domestic routes. The terminal building opened in 1983 with solar panels for its own power, then grew in two recorded steps: a west wing for regional flights in March 2007 (with its own private-aviation terminal and car park alongside), and an east wing in July 2012 that added twenty more check-in counters and a new baggage hall. Today 43 airlines fly to 103 destinations from that one building, split operationally into two boarding piers Aena itself labels T1 (the larger one, gates 6 to 12) and T2 (gate 4). Two Metrovalencia lines, 3 and 5, both stop on the ground floor of the 2007 regional wing — the only transit link that runs every day of the week, since the airport bus does not run on Sundays or public holidays. One rule catches first-time flyers: Valencia does not announce boarding gates or gate changes over the speakers, so the departure screens are the only way to know where to go. In 2025 the airport handled 11,847,527 passengers.
