Barcelona International Airport Information

Barcelona's wonderfully modern International (El Prat) airport sits around seven miles south west of the city, so it is a very convenient drop off place. Barcelona International Airport is the second largest airport in Spain, as far as passenger traffic goes. A staggering thirty million plus passengers travel via Barcelona airport over 2008. Just in case you’re interested, that’s almost 322,000 flights. Barcelona airport serves a huge number of internal, national and international destinations including Barcelona itself. Because it is also the gateway to the Costa Brava, it looks likely becoming even more popular as time goes by.

Barcelona airport is rightfully proud of its state of the art features. An amazing nineteen fully functioning multimedia booths, complete with internet access, are scattered around Terminal A and Terminal Bs’ ground floors, throughout the corridors and boarding areas 1 – 5. The airport’s newest offering – a brand new Terminal C, is underway with 14 new check-in points planned, plus a raft of new super-efficient ticket and airline offices, brand new baggage reclaim areas and two fast new luggage carousel machines.

 

Barcelona (el Prat) airport is busy and packed by highly efficient and spotlessly clean. Their new Terminal C is due to open some time during 2009 – watch this space. This should help ease the congestion and make travelling through the airport an even better experience. Parking facilities are great, in-terminal shopping, eating and entertainment is good and there’s the full complement of Duty Free and designer outlets. Keep up to date - use the super-fast directline-flights one-stop search engine to search airlines offering flights from Barcelona airport. For directions to Barcelona International Airport and a summary of public transport to Barcelona Airport, explore our Barcelona airport pages.