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BCN
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LEBL
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public
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Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA)
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December 25, 1918
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Barcelona, Spain
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7 mi (11 km)
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12
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38
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7L/25R
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12,281
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3,743
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concrete
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7R/25L
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8,727
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known as '''El Prat''' is an Airport that serves Barcelona, Spain . It is located 10 km away at the town of El Prat De Llobregat .
Barcelona El Prat Airport is Spain's second largest airport after and it is a focus city for Air Europa , Air Madrid and Iberia Airlines . El Prat is the main airport for the city of Barcelona. Its domestic flights are mostly operated by Iberia and Spanair . The airport also serves many European destinations.
Currently Barcelona El Prat Airport is undergoing a huge expansion , with the construction of a new south terminal, between terminals , expected to enter into operation in 2008.
During 2005, 27,131,445 passengers used El Prat Barcelona airport and it is due to exceed 30 milion passengers in 2006.
In 2005, 4.571.073 passengers were transferred between Barcelona El Prat and Madrid Barajas, making Barcelona-Madrid the busiest airport pair in Europe. This route is called "Puente Aereo" (Air Bridge).
Barcelona's first airfield was located at El Remolar , and began operations in 1916 , however, it did not have good expansion prospects, and the new airport at El Prat was opened in 1918 . The first flight was a Latecoere Salmson 300 which arrived from Toulouse . The airport was used as a base for the Spanish Navy 's Zeppelin fleet. Scheduled commercial service began in 1927 with Iberia's 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 , a new terminal was built in 1968 . (It is presently the older wing of Terminal B.)
The airport underwent a major development in preparation for the 1992 Summer Olympics with the construction of a new terminal (designed by Ricardo Bofill ).
Since then, significant increases in passenger numbers have necesitated the need for further expansion including a new 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 between 40 million and 55 million passengers annually (compare to 27.1 million passengers in 2005 ). The airport is slated to expand in area from 8.45 to 15.33 km&2 by 2007.
The airport is accessible by Renfe Commuter Train (it's not at present, due to the works being carried out at the airport in order to the future arrival of the AVE railway system) and by Aerobus Bus from the Station Aeroport in Barcelona's centre. As part of the major expansion above, a train station is also to be built nearby (connecting to the Spanish AVE network and Barcelona Metro ). Automobile access was improved and expanded parking garages were opened in 2003 and 2004.
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin, Cork)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerolineas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- Air Algerie (Algiers)
- Air Baltic (Riga)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Palma de Mallorca)
- Air Europa (Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Madrid, Menorca, North Tenerife, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, Palermo, Shanghai-Pudong, Tunis)
- Air France (Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Madrid (Bogota, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cartagena, Lima, Santiago de Chile, North Tenerife)
- Air Malta (Luqa)
- Air Plus Comet (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Air Ukraine (Kiev)
- Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Alpi Eagles (Venice)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Avianca (Bogota) '' (starts June 17, 2006)''
- Blue1 (Helsinki)
- Blue Air (Bucharest-Baneasa)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)''(starts May 17, 2006)''
- Cubana De Aviacion (Havana) ''(Seasonal)''
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
- Easyjet (Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schoenefeld, Bristol, Dortmund, Geneva, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Paris-Orly)
- Egyptair (Cairo)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh, Glasgow)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
- Iberia (A Coruña, Albacete, Alicante, Almeria, Asturias, Badajoz, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Granada, Ibiza, Jerez, Logroño, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, San Sebastian, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, North Tenerife, South Tenerife, Valladolid, Vigo, Vitoria, Amsterdam, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Bologna, Brussels, Cairo, Cagliari, Casablanca, Dublin, Florence, Geneva, Hannover, Istanbul, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Marrakech, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fuimicino, Tel Aviv, Turin, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Zurich)
- Icelandair (Reykjavik)
- Jet2.com (Belfast, Leeds/Bradford)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lagun Air (Leon)
- Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
- Luxair (Luxemburg)
- Maersk Air (Copenhagen)
- Meridiana (Florence)
- Monarch Airlines (Manchester)
- MyAir (Venice)
- Portugalia (Lisbon, Porto)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Tangier, Marrakech)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Oslo)
- Singapore Airlines (Milan, Singapore) ''(Starts July 19, 2006)
- Sky Europe (Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow)
- SN Brussels (Brussels)
- Spanair (A Coruña, Asturias, Bilbao, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, North Tenerife, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Vigo, Ancona, Dublin, Copenhagen, Stockholm)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Zürich)
- Syrianair (Damascus)
- Sterling European Airlines (Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Stockholm)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Madeira)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Henri Coanda)
- Thomsonfly (Coventry)
- Transavia (Amsterdam)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
- US Airways (Philadelphia) ''(Seasonal)''
- Virgin Express (Brussels)
- Vueling Airlines (Bilbao, Ibiza, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fuimicino, Venice)
Cargo Airline services are provided by:
- Zunino, Eric (November 2004) "Barcelona Airport", ''Airline World'', pp. 40-43.
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