Madrid Barajas International Airport

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Barajas International Airport
IATA: MAD - ICAO: LEMD
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aena
Serves Madrid
Elevation AMSL 2,000 ft (610 m)
Coordinates 40°29′3″N, 003°34′00″W
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 14,272 4,350 Asphalt
New Terminal 4 Interior
New Terminal 4 Interior

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 2006, more than 45 million[1] passengers used Barajas; it ranks as the world's 13th—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. [2]

Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers (winning them the 2006 Stirling Prize) was inaugurated on February 5, 2006. Barajas has the world's largest single terminal area, 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 a stress-free start to their journey. This is managed through careful use of 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 manoeuvres. 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. The Metro Line 8 extension to Terminal 4 will be inaugurated the first week of May 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.[3]

The airport is currently given a rating of three stars by Skytrax's airport grading exercise along with seven other airports.[1]

Contents

[edit] Airlines

Terminal 4 Satellite Gates
Terminal 4 Satellite Gates
T4 - Upper level to check-in, lower levels to Arrivals and metro station)
T4 - Upper level to check-in, lower levels to Arrivals and metro station)
Entrance to Terminal 4
Entrance to Terminal 4

[edit] Terminal 1

[edit] Terminal 2

  • Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
  • Air Europa (Domestic and Schengen destinations: Athens [starts July 11, 2007], Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Palma [starts June 25, 2007], Malaga, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Venice [starts June, 30 2007], Vienna [starts June 24, 2007], Vigo)
  • Spanair (Domestic and Schengen destinations, except shuttle to Barcelona: Alicante, Almeria, Asturias, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Gerona, Granada, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Jerez, La Coruña, Lanzarote, La Palma, Malaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, San Sebastían, Santander [starts 2007], Santiago de Compostela, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Valencia, Vienna, Vigo)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Madeira)

[edit] Terminal 3

[edit] Terminal 4

Terminal 4
Terminal 4
  • Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
  • Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
  • Air Algérie (Algiers)
  • Air Senegal International (Dakar)
  • American Airlines (Miami)
  • Avianca (Bogota, Cali)
  • British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
  • Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
  • Czech Airlines (Prague)
  • EgyptAir (Cairo, Luxor)
  • El Al (Tel Aviv)
  • Finnair (Helsinki)
  • Iberia and Air Nostrum (Algiers, Alicante, Almeria, Amsterdam, Asturias, Athens, Bajadoz, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bogota, Bologna, Bordeaux, Boston [starts May 6, 2007], Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cagliari [seasonal], Cairo, Cancun, Caracas, Casablanca, Catania [seasonal], Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Gibraltar, 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, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rome-Fiumicino, San Jose (CR), San Juan, 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, Washington-Dulles [starts June 3, 2007], 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, Newcastle, 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)
  • Luxair (Luxembourg)
  • Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
  • Olympic Airlines (Athens)
  • Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
  • Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
  • Royal Jordanian (Amman)
  • Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
  • TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca)
  • Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
  • Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
  • Vueling Airlines (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Ibiza, Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Venice)

[edit] 2006 bombing

Main article: 2006 Madrid Barajas International Airport bombing

On the morning of December 30, 2006, an explosion took place in the carpark building module D attached to Terminal 4 of Madrid Barajas International Airport in Spain. It was first reported by Time Warner employee Samantha Graham via phone on CNN around 8:34 GMT. Reuters also distributed a wire story on the event, but with sparse details. The article stated that a bomb threat was phoned in at approximately 8:15 local time (7:15 GMT), with the caller stating that a bomb would explode at 9:00 local time (8:00 GMT).[2] After receipt of the warning, police were able to evacuate part of the airport.[3] Responsibility for the explosion has since been claimed by an anonymous caller claiming to represent ETA.[4]

As a result of the explosion, two Ecuadorians that were sleeping in their cars were killed. The whole module D of the carpark was levelled to the ground, around 40,000 tonnes of debris. It took 6 days to recover the bodies of the second victim from the rubble.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airport Star Ranking - 3 Star Airports. Skytrax (2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
  2. ^ "Explosion hits parking lot at Madrid airport", Reuters, 2006-12-30. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
  3. ^ "Madrid bomb shatters ETA cease-fire", Reuters, 2006-12-31. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
  4. ^ Webb, Jason, Sanz, Inmaculada. "Four hurt in Madrid airport bomb, ETA claims attack", Reuters, 2006-12-30. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.

[edit] External links

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