Barcelona Airport Mini Guide
Barcelona International Airport is known as El Prat because it is located in El Prat de Llobregat 18 kilometres north east from the city of Barcelona.
If you are arriving at the airport by car take the C-31 Barcelona-Castelldefels dual carriageway which connects with the C-32 Barcelona-Sitges.
The airport mainly serves domestic, European and North African destinations with Vueling Airlines, Clickair, Spanair, Air Europa and Iberia Airlines all using it. El Prat also offers destinations to Asia via Singapore Airlines; and the United States via Aeroméxico, US Airways, American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Meanwhile Aerolíneas Argentinas and Avianca offer non-stop destinations to Central and South America.
The airport’s terminals are known as A, B and C. Terminal C has recently been renovated to include 14 check in desks, new carosels and baggage reclaim halls. The airport is undergoing further expansion with the construction of a new south terminal.
At the same time it will increase the number of available parking spaces and two new levels on top of the current covered car parking facility opposite Terminal A are being built. Parking spaces on the top level are temporarily out of use. The work on the new south terminal and the extra parking will be completed in the summer of 2009.
There is an air shuttle from Barcelona to Madrid known as the "Pont Aeri" in Catalan or "Puente Aéreo" in Spanish which means "Air Bridge". This air shuttle is in fact is the world's busiest route, with the highest number of flight operations (971 per week) in 2007.
The schedule has been reduced since February 2008, when the AVE high speed train line between Madrid and Barcelona was opened. The train can cover the distance in 2½ hours which makes it a desirable mode of transport.
Suburban Line links the airport with the city centre and the Sants and França train stations. Trains depart from the airport from 6am to 11:44pm and from Estació de França from 5.20am to 10.42pm.