Barcelona International Airport

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Barcelona International Airport
Aeropuerto de Barcelona
IATA: BCN – ICAO: LEBL
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA)
Location Barcelona, Catalonia
Elevation AMSL 12 ft / 3.8 m
Coordinates 41°17′49″N, 2°04′02″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
7L/25R 12,281 3,743 Concrete
7R/25L 8,727 2,660 Asphalt
2/20 8.334 2,540 Asphalt
Image:Barcelona airport.jpg
Interior view of the airport

Barcelona International Airport (IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL), also known as El Prat, is the main airport serving Barcelona, Catalonia. It is located 10 km away from the centre of Barcelona, in El Prat de Llobregat.

The airport is the largest in Catalonia and Spain's second largest behind Madrid Barajas International Airport. It is a main hub for Vueling Airlines and Clickair, and a focus city for Spanair, Air Europa and Iberia Airlines (until spring 2008). The airport mainly serves domestic and European destinations, but Singapore Airlines offers destinations in Asia and US Airways, American Airlines (beginning May 1, 2008), Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines in the United States. The airport is undergoing expansion with the construction of a new south terminal, expected to be finished in 2009.

In 2006, 30,008,152 passengers [1] used "Barcelona El Prat" airport.

The Barcelona-Madrid air shuttle service, known as the "Puente Aéreo", is the world’s busiest route, with the highest number of flight operations (971 per week).[2]

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[edit] History

Barcelona's first airfield, located at el Remolar, began operations in 1916. However, it did not have good expansion prospects and so a new airport at El Prat opened in 1918. The first plane was a Latecoere Salmson 300 which arrived from Toulouse. The airport was used as a base by the Spanish Navy's Zeppelin fleet. Scheduled commercial service began in 1927 with an Iberia service to Madrid.

In 1948, the first overseas service was operated by Pan American World Airways to New York, using a Lockheed Constellation. A new control tower was built in 1965 and the terminal was rebuilt in 1968.

The airport underwent a major development in preparation for the 1992 Summer Olympics with the construction of a second terminal (designed by Ricardo Bofill).

A plan for expansion (Plan Barcelona) [3] includes a third terminal building (also designed by Ricardo Bofill) and control tower. An additional runway (07R/25L) has been built. Once these developments are complete, the airport will be capable of handling 55 million passengers annually (compared to 30 million passengers in 2006). The airport is slated to expand in area from 8.45 to 15.33 km² by 2009.

After maintaining a presence in the airport for over eighty years, in spring 2008 Iberia will withdraw all of its services to Barcelona and replace them with Clickair services.

[edit] Statistics

Passenger Evolution
YearNr.Pax%YearNr.Pax%
19631.000.000 -199917.421.938 7.6
19775.000.000 -200019.809.56713.8
19909.205.000 -200120.745.536 4.7
19919.145.000-0.7200221.348.211 2.9
199210.196.00011.5200322.752.667 6.6
19939.999.000-2.0200424.558.138 7.9
199410.647.285 6.5200527.152.74510.6
199511.727.81410.1200630.008.15210.5
199613.434.67914.6200730.590.302*10.0
199715.065.72412.1
199816.194.805 7.3

Source: Barcelona Airport, AENA.

*January - November 2007

Operations Evolution
YearOperations%
1999233.609-
2000255.913 9.5
2001273.119 6.3
2002271.023-0.8
2003282.021 4.1
2004291.369 3.3
2005307.798 5.6
2006327.636 6.4
2007326.538* 8.2
Cargo Evolution
YearTm.%
199986.217-
200088.269 2.4
200181.882-7.8
200275.905-7.3
200370.118-7.6
200484.98521.2
200590.446 6.4
200693.404 3.3
200788.768* 5.4

[edit] Transport

The airport is accessible by Renfe commuter train on the R10 line, which runs from Estació de França, with a major stop at Sants train station providing transfer to the Barcelona Metro system. The TMB public bus on line 46 runs every 25 minutes from Plaça Espanya. A scheduled private bus line (Aerobús) from Plaça Catalunya, stops at Sants and Plaça d'Espanya. Taxi stops are available at each terminal. The C-32B highway connects the airport to a main traffic interchange between Barcelona's Ronda de Dalt beltway and major highways.

As part of the major expansion above, a new train station will be built nearby, connecting the airport to the Spanish AVE network, and to both Line 2 and Line 9 of the Barcelona Metro.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Terminal A

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Terminal A

[edit] Terminal B

Image:Terminal B.JPG
Terminal B
  • Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Palma de Mallorca)
  • Air Europa (Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Palma [seasonal], Madrid, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Tunis)
  • Air Italy (Verona) [begins March 21]
  • Alpi Eagles (Bari [seasonal], Naples, Venice)
  • American Airlines (New York-JFK) [begins April 24]
  • Arkia (Tel Aviv)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
  • Clickair (Alicante [begins February 24], Amsterdam, Asturias [begins March 1], Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Brussels [begins March 1], Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Casablanca, Dublin, Dubrovnik [seasonal], Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Granada, Gran Canaria, Helsinki, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coruna, Lisbon, Lyon, Marrakesh, Málaga, Malta [seasonal], Menorca, Milan-Malpensa [begins April 2008], Moscow-Domodedovo [seasonal], Munich, Nador [seasonal], Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sofia [begins February 1], Tangier [seasonal], Tenerife North, Tunis, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Vigo, Warsaw, Zürich)
  • Condor (Munich)
  • Continental Airlines (Newark)
  • El Al (Tel Aviv)
  • Flyglobespan (Aberdeen [seasonal], Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
  • Girjet (Billund) [seasonal]
  • Iberia (Alicante [ends February 23], Asturias [ends February 29], Brussels [ends February 29], Cairo [ends spring 2008], London-Heathrow, Milan-Linate [ends April 2008], Milan-Malpensa [ends April 2008], Paris-Orly, Tel Aviv [ends spring 2008])
  • LTE International Airways (Venice)
  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
  • Scandinavian Airlines (Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
  • Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
  • Spanair (A Coruña, Algiers, Alicante, Asturias, Banjul, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura [seasonal], Granada, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife North, Valencia, Vigo, Zürich)
  • Vueling Airlines (Amsterdam, Athens, Bilbao, Brussels, Granada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Venice)

[edit] Terminal C

  • Iberia (Madrid)
    • Iberia operated by Air Nostrum (Albacete, Almeria, Badajoz, Bologna, Cagliari [seasonal], Leon, Lograno, Marseille, Melilla, Murcia, Nantes, Nice, Olbia-Costa Smeralda [seasonal], Pamplona, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santander, Tangier [seasonal], Turin, Valencia, Valladolid, Vitoria)
  • Corporate and General Aviation

[edit] Charter Airlines

Airlines that operated to or from El Prat in summer 2007

[edit] Cargo airlines

[edit] References

  • Zunino, Eric (November 2004) "Barcelona Airport", Airline World, pp. 40-43.
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[edit] External links

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