Higher and higher and ready to run on the large international hubs when also the enlargement of this air terminal and the third runway will become real. SAVE, the company managing the Venetian Marco Polo Airport, on 27th December rewarded the seven millionth passenger in transit on the lagoon terminal in 2007: Jeanne Belhumeur, a French speaking Canadian woman from Montreal who has been living in Italy for five years and who was going leave and call at Paris in order, then, to fly to Canada. During the period January – November the traffic of passengers in Venice increased of 12% compared to the same period of the previous year, against a national average grow of 10,2% and a European one that in the period January – June was equal to 5,7%.
The whole year was characterized by the introduction of new connections and the increase in attendances for already served   destinations. Summer, in particular, resulted in lots of novelties. We have to consider the new connections to Dubai (Emirates) and Casablanca (Royal Air Maroc) and as far as low cost flights are concerned, the intensification of the lines for France, which have extended everywhere, performed by Myair.com, by means of new flights to Bordeaux, Lille, Marsiglia, besides the new destinations to Casablanca and Marrakech. To these, new flights have been added: to Munster by Hapag Lloyd Express, to Berlin by Easyjet and to Madrid and Paris by Vueling.
Some advance news about 2008: from February Easyjet will perform nine flights per week to Paris Charles De Gaulle and from April a  flight a day to Lion, from March Vueling will introduce three flights a week to Malaga, and in May the air company SAS Norway will make its debut with three connections a week to Oslo.
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