Madrid Airport Mini Guide
More than 50 million people use Madrid Airport every year making it one of the world's busiest flight terminals. They go on flights to Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino, Tenerife North, Tenerife South, Venice Marco Polo and Vigo with Air Europa and to Amsterdam, Berlin Schonefeld, Bristol, Bucharest Henri Coanda, Casablanca, Edinburgh, Geneva, Ibiza, Lisbon, Liverpool, London Gatwick, Lyon, Marrakech, Milan Malpensa, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Sofia, Tangier and Toulouse with Easyjet among others. Madrid Airport is also known as Madrid Barajas and has the airport code MAD. It is thought of as the gateway between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of the world. Particularly popular are flights to other Hispanic parts of the world such as South America. For instance Iberia airlines flies to Bogota, Buenos Aires Ezeiza, Caracas, Lima, Montevideo, Quito, Rio de Janeiro Galeao, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paulo Guarulhos. Iberia airlines is just one of many airlines based at Madrid airport. You will need Car hire Madrid Airport to get from the terminal to the Spanish capital as it takes about 15 or 20 minutes to do so by car. As soon as you come out of arrivals you will see offices from the major car hire companies like Sixt and Easycar and we can arrange for you to pick up your vehicles from these. Madrid is also connected to Barcelona by an air shuttle service which is the busiest air shuttle service in the world.