Barcelona Airport
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport is the main airport of Barcelona, Spain. Named after Josep Tarradellas, it is located in El Prat de Llobregat, 10 km southwest of the centre of Barcelona. It is the second largest airport in Spain after Madrid-Barajas Airport.
It is the main hub of Vueling. The airport serves mainly domestic and continental flights, but some airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Aerolíneas Argentinas offer destinations in Asia, the United States and South America.
In 2015, 37 559 044 passengers transited through the airport, an increase of 6.7% on 2013
Barcelona’s first airfield was located in el Remolar in 1916, on the land of a farm called La Volaterìa, whose name the installation bore. Two years later, in 1918, a new airfield was opened in El Prat de Llobregat, a few hundred metres from the first site.
From here, on Christmas Day 1918, the first connection between Barcelona airport and Toulouse was made by the French postal airline Société des lignes Latécoère, which in 1929 would become Aéropostale, owned by the entrepreneur Pierre-Georges Latécoère: accompanied by the pilot René Cornemont, he left on board the seaplane Salmson 2 A2 la Ligne to land in Toulouse. 2] The airport was used as a base by the Aeroclub de Cataluña and the Zeppelin fleet of the Armada Española and the Ejército de Tierra, respectively the navy and the army of the Iberian State. Regular commercial service began in 1927 with the Iberia line to Madrid.
From 1941 to 1946 a series of works were carried out to link the two airports and in 1948 runway 07-25 was built, the one currently used as the main runway. In the same year the first regular overseas route to New York was inaugurated, operated by Pan American with a fleet of Lockheed Constellation aircraft. Between 1948 and 1952 taxiways, a passenger terminal and a new runway with a 16-34 orientation, perpendicular to the first, were built. In 1963 the number of annual passengers exceeded one million for the first time, so two years later the main runway was again extended, a new taxiway was created and the control tower was built. In 1968 a new terminal was opened (the old wing of the current Terminal B).
Since 21 December 2018 it has been named after Josep Tarradellas i Joan, a supporter of Catalonia’s independence in 1936 and president, from 1954 to 1980, of the Generalitat de Catalunya, who spent the last three years in exile due to Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
Transport
Barcelona Airport Trains
Terminal 2 has a train station for short-distance trains (Rodalies Barcelona). Line 2 runs from Maçanet – Massanes station every 30 minutes, with stops at Barcelona Sants station and Passeig de Gràcia station (located in the city centre) and from where access to the Barcelona Metro network is possible. Passengers arriving at Terminal 1 who wish to travel to Terminal 2 have a free shuttle bus at their disposal.
Barcelona Airport Buses
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB): Line 46 with frequency every 16 minutes from Plaça d’Espanya; Aerobus with connections from Plaça Catalunya, with stops at Urgell and Plaça d’Espanya; BusPlana connects Terminal 1 with several locations on the Costa Daurada.
Barcelona Airport Taxis
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