Barcelona International Airport
| Barcelona International Airport Aeropuerto de Barcelona |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
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
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
Source: Barcelona Airport, AENA. *January - September 2007 |
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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
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana) [seasonal]
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerolineas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- Aeroméxico (México City) [begins December 17]
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air France operated by Brit Air (Lyon)
- Air France operated by Régional (Bordeaux, Nantes)
- Air One (Turin)
- Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson) [seasonal]
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- some operated by Alitalia Express
- Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
- Avianca (Bogotá)
- Blue Air (Bacău, Bucharest-Bǎneasa, Cluj Napoca)
- Blue1 (Helsinki)
- bmibaby (Birmingham)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Czech Airlines (Marseille, Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
- easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast [begins November 3], Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Dortmund,
Geneva, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Lyon [begins October 29], Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle,
Nottingham-East Midlands [begins December 7], Paris-Orly)
- easyJet operated by easyJet Switzerland (Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva)
- Egyptair (Cairo, Luxor)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn) [seasonal]
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Iceland Express (Reykjavik-Keflavik) [begins November 9]
- Icelandair (Reykjavik-Keflavik) [seasonal]
- Jet2.com (Belfast-International, Leeds/Bradford)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lagun Air (León, Salamanca, Valladolid)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Meridiana (Florence)
- Monarch Airlines (Manchester)
- MyAir (Bologna, Bucharest-Băneasa, Venice)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo-Rygge) [begins February 15]
- Rossiya (Saint Petersburg)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Tangier)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- SkyEurope (Bratislava, Prague, Vienna)
- SkyEurope Airlines Hungary (Budapest)
- Smart Wings (Budapest, Prague)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Malmoe [begins March 2008], Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Zürich)
- Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Airlines (Basel/Mulhouse)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Madeira, Porto)
- some operated by Portugalia
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj Napoca [begins October 28])
- Thomsonfly (Coventry, Cardiff)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- Tunisair (Tunis, Monastir [seasonal])
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv)
- Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg) [seasonal]
- US Airways (Philadelphia) [seasonal]
- VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Windjet (Catania, Palermo)
- Wizz Air (Bucharest-Băneasa, Cluj Napoca [begins November 13], Târgu-Mureş [ends November 12])
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)
- Austrian Airlines operated by Austrian Arrows (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)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Stuttgart)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart)
- 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)
- some operated by AeBal
- 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
- CN Air
- CorporateJet XXI
- Euro Continental Air
- Executive Airlines
- Gestair
- NetJets
- Universal Jet
Charter Airlines
Airlines that operated to or from El Prat in summer 2007
- Aeroflot Don (Rostov-on-Don)
- Aeroflot Nord (Arkhangelsk)
- Air Algerie (Tindouf)
- Air Cairo (Cairo, Luxor)
- Air Comet (Cancun, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Lanzarote, Monastir, Samaná-El Catey, Punta Cana, Tenerife South)
- Air Europa (Aswan, Bergen-Flesland, Billund, Budapest, Copenhagen, Djerba, Luxor, Prague, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv)
- Air Memphis (Aswan, Cairo)
- Air Pullmantur
- AMC Airlines (Aswan, Cairo, Luxor, Sharm El Sheikh)
- Arkhangelsk Airlines (Arkhangelsk)
- Astraeus (Manchester)
- Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Atlasjet (Antalya, Istambul-Atatürk)
- Aurela (Vilnius)
- Aviaprad (Ekaterinburg)
- Belavia (Minsk)
- Blue Line (Biarritz, Lisbon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rhodes, Tivat)
- Blue Panorama (Bari, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Continental Airways (Moscow-Domodevo)
- Daghestan Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Dubrovnik Airline (Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Zagreb)
- Eurofly (Milan-Malpensa)
- Europe Airpost
- Flightline (Bari, Ioannina, Madrid, Menorca, Turin)
- Futura (Aswan, Athens, Bari, Bergen-Flesland, Bucarest, Catania, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Lanzarote, Luxor, Nador, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tangier, Tel Aviv, Tenerife South, Thessaloniki, Thira, Verona)
- Girjet (Ajaccio, Al Hoceima, Alghero-Fertilia, Amsterdam, Aqaba, Belgrade, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Damascus, Figari-Sud Corse, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Lisbon, Lyon, Malta, Menorca, Mikonos, Nador, Olbia-Costa Smeralda, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Split, Tangier, Thira, Venice, Vitoria)
- Hellas Jet (Heraklion)
- Iberworld (Bamako, Banjul, Cancun, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Punta Cana, Tenerife South)
- Inter Airlines (Nevsehir)
- Israir (Tel Aviv)
- ItAli Airlines (Pescara)
- JetX Airlines (Reykjavik-Keflavik)
- Karthago Airlines (Monastir)
- Kras Air (Moscow-Domodevo)
- Lagunair (Pau-Uzein)
- LTE International Airways (Lanzarote, Tenerife South, Venice)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Montenegro Airlines (Podgorica)
- MyTravel Airways (Glasgow-Prestwick)
- Neos (Milan-Malpensa)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Privilege Style (Athens, Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, Naples)
- Red Wings (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Rossiya (Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo, Moscow-Domodevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Samara)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Perm)
- Samara Airlines (Samara)
- Spanair (Athens, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, La Palma, Malta, Moscow-Domodevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Olbia-Costa Smeralda, St. Petersburg, Tenerife South, Tunis, Venice)
- Swiftair (Fuerteventura, La Palma, Tenerife South)
- Tatarstan Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Liège)
- Titan Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester)
- TNT Airways (Liège)
- Transaero (St. Petersburg)
- Transkel Airways (Samara)
- Vladivostok Air (Ekaterinburg, Ufa)
- XL Airways (Glasgow-Prestwick)
Cargo airlines
- Cargoitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Cargolux (Hong Kong, Jeddah, Luxembourg)
- DHL Air (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
- Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
- FedEx Express (Paris)
- Jade Cargo International (Brescia, Shenzhen)
- Swiftair
- TNT Airways (Liege, Brussels)
- UPS (Valencia, Cologne/Bonn)
References
- Zunino, Eric (November 2004) "Barcelona Airport", Airline World, pp. 40-43.
External links
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