Barcelona–El Prat Airport
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The airport Barcelona -El Prat (IATA: BCN, ICAO:. LEBL; katal Aeroport de Barcelona - el Prat, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Barcelona -El Prat ) is the international airport of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, the largely in the field community of El Prat de Llobregat is. With over 35.211 million passengers (2013 ), he is after the Madrid-Barajas Airport Spain's second largest airport and the ninth largest in Europe. He serves as a hub for Air Nostrum, Vueling and Ryanair.
The Barcelona area there is also the smaller airports of Girona and Reus 90 km northeast 90 km southwest that are primarily served by low cost airlines and charter airlines and partly also marketed as an airport for Barcelona.
History
After a first airfield in El Remolar in 1916 was, was not already opened two years later, far from being on the territory of the municipality of El Prat de Llobregat to the current site. The first airline to operate the still active in the aviation industry Toulouse company Latécoère, which at that time took up a trip with multiple stops between their home address and Casablanca. In addition to the civil use of the airport and the Armada Española served as the basis of zeppelins.
Iberia opened in 1927 its first ever route between Barcelona and Madrid. Catalonia remained during the Spanish Civil War a long time under control of the Republic and El Prat was used militarily again by the Republicans and their allies, such as the airmen of the Red Army. End of the war also took advantage of associations of the German Condor Legion, including the second season of the hunt group 88 ( 2.J/88 ) the place a shorter time. Decades later, the construction of the third runway in 2002, the remains of a Bf 109 were excavated.
The first take-off and landing strip is from the year 1948 and in the same year, the recording of the intercontinental traffic carried by the Pan Am. The airport was then expanded and the opening of the second train was in 1952. After 1963 more than 1 million passengers were handled for the first time, floated here in 1970, as half a year previously in Frankfurt, the first Pan Am jumbo from JFK Arriving in Barcelona a.
Further expansion waves there were in advance of the Summer Olympic Games in 1992 and especially in the first decade of the 21st century, when the third runway and a completely new terminal T1 today, southwest of the existing, today T2 arisen.
Operator
The airport of Barcelona is previously operated by the state AENA. In early December 2010, however, the Spanish government announced a possible partial privatization of AENA and the Madrid and Barcelona airports. To this end, the Barcelona airport is hived off into a subsidiary and the capital are opened to 90.05 % by the end of 2011 to a private operator who will operate the airport with a 20 - year concession.
Terminal building
Barcelona airport has two terminals:
Terminal T1
Opened by the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on 16 June 2009 Terminal 1, also known as T1, located in the southwest of the site. The 1.3 billion -euro building designed by architect Ricardo Bofill has a size of 544,000 square meters. Since the opening of a large proportion of operating on the Barcelona airport airlines moved into the terminal 1, including the oneworld alliance ( including Iberia ) and SkyTeam and Star Alliance ( including Lufthansa, Austrian and Swiss).
Terminal T2
Terminal 2 is the older of the two terminals, and is located in the north of the area. It consists of the three regions A, B and C, and is used mainly by low cost airlines and charter airlines since the opening of T1. The area 2C is intended solely as a base for easyJet.
Between the two terminals a free shuttle bus service runs buses in dense clock sequence.
Transport links
The airport is located about 15 km southwest of the city of Barcelona in the area of the municipality of El Prat de Llobregat.
- Road: The journey from the central Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona Airport " El Prat " lasts depending on traffic 20 to 40 minutes, the approximately 14 -kilometer trail signposted on the Plaça d' Espanya to the motorway C -31 ( Autovia de Castelldefels. towards Sitges) from the airport.
- Rail: The line north of R2 Rodalies Barcelona runs every 30 minute intervals from the airport terminal 2 via the main Sants to the central station Passeig de Gracia in the city and ends in Maçanet - Massanes. The ride from the airport to Sants train station takes about 20 minutes. Exist there and at the next station Passeig de Gracia interchanges to almost all other lines of transport TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona). The new Terminal 1 is to be connected by 2014 to the public rail network.
- Bus: The Aerobus connects the Plaça de Catalunya and the Plaça d' Espanya to the airport. On top of the line 46 between the Plaça d' Espanya and the airport. The bus ride takes about 35-50 minutes ( depending on traffic ).
Aerial view of the terminal T2
Passenger traffic by 2006
New Tower