Madrid Barajas International Airport
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| Barajas International Airport | |||
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| IATA: MAD - ICAO: LEMD | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,000 ft (610 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 15R/33L | 13,451 | 4,100 | Asphalt |
| 18L/36R | 11,483 | 3,500 | Asphalt |
| 15L/33R | 11,483 | 3,500 | Asphalt |
| 18R/36L | 14,895 | 4,540 | Asphalt |
Madrid Barajas International Airport (IATA: MAD, ICAO: LEMD), located northeast of Madrid's city center (), is the most important international and domestic gateway in Spain. Opened in 1928, the airport has grown to be one of the most important aviation centers of Europe.
Barajas serves as the gateway to the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe and the world, particularly Latin America. In 2005, more than 42 million passengers used Barajas; it ranks as the world's 12th—and Europe's fifth—busiest airport. Barajas is the primary hub and maintenance base for Iberia Airlines. Consequently, Iberia is responsible for more than 60 percent of Barajas' traffic.
The Madrid - Barcelona air route is currently the busiest in the world.[1]
On February 5, 2006, the immense Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers, and winners of the 2006 Stirling Prize, was inaugurated. In terminal area, Barajas is the world's largest airport, with an area of more than one million square meters (11 million square feet). Consisting of a main building (T4) and satellite building (T4S), which are separated by approximately 2.5 km, the new terminal is meant to give passengers an altogether stress-free start to their journey. This is managed by superb illumination, available by glass panes instead of walls and numerous domes in the roof which allow natural light to pass through. With the new addition, Barajas is designed to handle 70 million passengers annually.
During the construction of Terminal 4, two more runways (15L/33R and 18L/36R) were constructed to aid in the flow of air traffic arriving and departing from Barajas. These runways were officially inaugurated on February 5, 2006 (together with the terminals), but had already been used on several occasions beforehand to test flight and air traffic manoevers. Thus, Barajas came to have four runways: two on a north-south axis and parallel to each other (separated by 1.8km) and two on a northwest-southeast axis (and separated by 2.5km). This allowed simultaneous takeoffs and landings into the airport, allowing 120 operations an hour (one takeoff or landing every 30 seconds).
Terminals 1, 2 and 3 are adjacent terminals that are home to SkyTeam and Star Alliance airlines, as well as Air Europa.
Terminal 4 is home to Iberia Airlines, its franchise Air Nostrum and all Oneworld partner airlines.
The Metro (see Metro Line 8), runs to Terminal 2 (from there you can walk to Terminals 1 and 3 or take the free connecting bus to Terminal 4). Alternatively there is a bus from Barajas town metro station direct to Terminal 4. Also there is a light-rail connection from Terminal 4 to Terminal 4S.
The Metro Line 8 extension to T4 will be completed from early 2007. In October 2006 a bid was launched for the construction of a Cercanías link between Chamartin train station and Terminal 4. When finished in 2009, a single Cercanías Line will link Madrid Barajas Terminal 4, with Chamartin and Atocha AVE high-speed train stations.
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[edit] Airlines
[edit] Terminal 1
- Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- Aeroméxico (Mexico City, Monterrey)
- Air Asturias (Asturias)
- Air China (Beijing, São Paulo-Guarulhos) [starts Dec. 10, 2006]
- Air Europa (International nonSchengen: Budapest, Cancun, Caracas, Dakar, Havana, Marrakesh, Prague, Punta Cana, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador, Santo Domingo, Tunis, Warsaw)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Madrid (Barcelona, Bogota, Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cartagena, Fortaleza, Guayaquil, Ibiza, Lima, London-Gatwick, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Panama City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Quito, Rome-Fiumicino, San Jose de Costa Rica, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo-Guarulhos [starts February, 2007], Tel Aviv, Tenerife-North, Toluca, Toulouse)
- Air Plus Comet (Barcelona, Bogota, Lima, London-Gatwick, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Santo Domingo)
- Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Blue Air (Bucharest-Baneasa)
- Bravo Air Congo operated by Bravo Airlines (Kinshasa)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
- Condor Airlines (Munich)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Cubana de Aviación (Havana, Santiago de Cuba)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
- easyJet (Asturias [starts February 15, 2007], Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Casablanca [starts February 22, 2007], Geneva, La Coruna [starts February 15, 2007], Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lyon [starts February 16, 2007], Marrakesh (starts February 22, 2007), Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Rome-Ciampino [starts February, 23 2007], Toulouse [starts February 25, 2007])
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf)
- Lufthansa (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
- Meridiana (Florence, Palermo)
- MyAir (Milan-Bergamo, Venice)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Pluna (Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro)
- Portugalia Airlines (Lisbon, Porto)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Ryanair (Billund [starts November 24, 2006], Bournemouth [starts November 23, 2006], Brussels Charleroi [starts November 22, 2006], Dublin [starts December 10, 2006], East Midlands [starts November 22, 2006], Eindhoven [starts November 22, 2006], Faro [starts November 22, 2006], Gothenburg City [starts November 23, 2006], Malmö [starts November 23, 2006], Marseille [starts November 22, 2006], Oslo Torp [starts November 24, 2006], Paris Beauvais [starts November 22, 2006], Porto [starts November 22, 2006], Shannon [starts November 23, 2006])
- Santa Barbara Airlines (Caracas)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
- Spanair (International nonSchengen: Malabo, Zürich)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Transavia (Amsterdam)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- US Airways (Philadelphia)
[edit] Terminal 2
- Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
- Air Europa (Domestic and Schengen destinations: Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Malaga, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Vigo)
- Spanair (Domestic and Schengen destinations, except shuttle to Barcelona: Alicante, Almeria, Asturias, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Grenada, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Jerez, La Coruña, Lanzarote, La Palma, Malaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, San Sebastían, Santiago de Compostela, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Valencia, Vienna, Vigo)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Madeira,Salvador)
[edit] Terminal 3
[edit] Terminal 4
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Algerie (Algiers)
- Air Senegal International (Dakar)
- American Airlines (Miami)
- Avianca (Bogota, Cali)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham, Edinburgh, London-City, Manchester)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- EgyptAir (Cairo, Luxor)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Iberia and Air Nostrum (Algiers [starts Jan. 7, 2007], Alicante, Almeria, Amsterdam, Asturias, Athens, Bajadoz, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bogota, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Cancun, Caracas, Casablanca, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Gibraltar [starts Dec. 16, 2006], Granada, Gran Canaria, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Havana, Ibiza, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jerez de la Frontera, Johannesburg, La Coruña, Lagos, La Rioja, Lanzarote, Leon, Lima, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Malabo, Malaga, Marrakesh, Marseille, Melilla, Menorca, Mexico City, Miami, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Montevideo, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Murcia, Nantes, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Oporto, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Panama City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Quito, Pisa, Reus, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rome-Fiumicino, San Jose (CR), San Juan, San Salvador [starts February 2,2007], Santo Domingo, Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Compostela, San Sebastian, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Santander, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sevilla, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Tangier, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vigo, Vitoria, Zaragoza, Zurich)
- Iberworld mostly seasonal (Alesund, Alicante, Almeria, Aqaba, Arrecife, Aswan, Athens, Barcelona, Belfast, Bergamo, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Brussels, Cairo, Cancun, Corfu, Cork, New Delhi, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Enschede, Exeter, Faro, Friederichshafen, Fuerteventura, Glasgow, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gran Canaria, Havana, Humberside, Ibiza, Irkalion, Kos, Las Palmas, Leeds/Bradford, Liege, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Luxor, Madeira, Mahon, Malaga, Manchester, Metz, Milan-Malpensa, Mikonos, Mulhouse, Naples, Norwich, Oporto, Oviedo, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Saarburcken, Salamanca, Santander, Santorini, Santiago de Compostela, Shannon, Seville, Southampton, Strasbourg, Tees-Side, Tenerife South, Trondheim, Turin, Valencia, Valladolid, Venice, Verona, Vigo, Vitoria, Zaragoza)
- LAN Airlines (Frankfurt, Guayaquil, Santiago de Chile)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Marrakech)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Virgin Express (Brussels)
- Vueling Airlines (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Ibiza, Lisbon, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela)
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