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Barcelona International Airport

Barcelona International Airport
Aeropuerto de Barcelona
IATA: BCN – ICAO: LEBL
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA)
Location Barcelona, Spain
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
Interior view of the airport
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Interior view of the airport

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

The airport is 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. The airport mainly serves domestic and European destinations, but Singapore Airlines offers destinations in Asia and US Airways, American Airlines (beginning May 1, 2008) 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 Aereo", is the busiest in the world.[2]

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 2007.

Statistics

Passenger Evolution
Year Nr.Pax % Year Nr.Pax %
1963 1.000.000 - 1999 17.421.938 7.6
1977 5.000.000 - 2000 19.809.567 13.8
1990 9.205.000 - 2001 20.745.536 4.7
1991 9.145.000 -0.7 2002 21.348.211 2.9
1992 10.196.000 11.5 2003 22.752.667 6.6
1993 9.999.000 -2.0 2004 24.558.138 7.9
1994 10.647.285 6.5 2005 27.152.745 10.6
1995 11.727.814 10.1 2006 30.008.152 10.5
1996 13.434.679 14.6 2007 25.196.307* 10.3
1997 15.065.724 12.1
1998 16.194.805 7.3

Source: Barcelona Airport, AENA.

*January - September 2007
Operations Evolution
Year Operations %
1999 233.609 -
2000 255.913 9.5
2001 273.119 6.3
2002 271.023 -0.8
2003 282.021 4.1
2004 291.369 3.3
2005 307.798 5.6
2006 327.636 6.4
2007 267.868* 9.3
Cargo Evolution
Year Tm. %
1999 86.217 -
2000 88.269 2.4
2001 81.882 -7.8
2002 75.905 -7.3
2003 70.118 -7.6
2004 84.985 21.2
2005 90.446 6.4
2006 93.404 3.3
2007 71.684* 7.5

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.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A

Terminal A
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Terminal A

Terminal B

Terminal B
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Terminal B
  • Aer Lingus (Belfast-International [begins December 10], Cork, Dublin)
  • 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)
  • Alpi Eagles (Bari [seasonal], Naples, Venice)
  • American Airlines (New York-JFK) [begins May 1]
  • Arkia (Tel Aviv)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
  • Clickair (A Coruña, Alicante [begins October 2007], Amsterdam, Asturias [begins February 1], Athens [begins October 28], Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao [begins December 1], Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Casablanca, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gran Canaria [begins October 28], Helsinki, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lisbon, Lyon, Marrakesh, Málaga, Malta, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa [begins April 2008], Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nador, Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca [begins January 1], Pisa, Porto, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sofia [begins October 28], Tanger, Tenerife North [begins October 28], Tunis, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Vigo, Warsaw, Zürich)
  • Condor (Munich)
  • Continental Airlines (Newark)
  • El Al (Tel Aviv)
  • Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
  • Girjet (Billund) [seasonal]
  • Iberia (Alicante [ends October 2007], Asturias [ends January 31], Athens [ends October 27], Bilbao [ends November 30], Brussels, Cairo, Gran Canaria [ends October 27], Istanbul-Atatürk [ends October 27], London-Heathrow, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa [ends April 2008], Palma de Mallorca [ends December 31], Paris-Orly, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-North [ends October 27])
  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
  • Scandinavian Airlines (Gothenburg-Landvetter [begins November 2], Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda [begins October 25])
  • 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)

Terminal C

  • Iberia (Madrid)
    • Iberia operated by Air Nostrum (Albacete, Almeria, Asturias, Badajoz, Bologna, Cagliari [seasonal], Hannover, La Rioja, Leon, Marseille [begins October 28], Melilla, Menorca, Murcia, Nantes, Nice, Olbia-Costa Smeralda [seasonal], Pamplona, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santander, Tangier [seasonal], Turin, Valencia, Valladolid, Vitoria)
  • Corporate and General Aviation

Charter Airlines

Airlines that operated to or from El Prat in summer 2007

Cargo airlines

References

  • Zunino, Eric (November 2004) "Barcelona Airport", Airline World, pp. 40-43.
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