Barcelona Airport

Barcelona Airport, also known as El Prat, is the main airport serving Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest from the centre of Barcelona, in El Prat de Llobregat.

The airport is the largest in Catalonia and Spain's second largest behind Madrid Barajas Airport.
It is a main hub for Vueling Airlines and Clickair, and a focus city for Spanair, Air Europa and Iberia Airlines.

The airport mainly serves domestic, European and North African destinations. Singapore Airlines (probably until summer 2009, in which they could codeshare with other Star Alliance partners) offers destinations to Asia; US Airways, American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines serve to North America; Aerolíneas Argentinas and Avianca also offer non-stop destinations to Central and South America.

The airport is undergoing expansion with the construction of a new south terminal, expected to be finished in 2009.

In 2008, 30,208,134 passengers used Barcelona Airport.

The Barcelona-Madrid air shuttle service, known as the "Pont Aeri" (in Catalan) or "Puente Aéreo" (in Spanish), literally "Air Bridge", 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 a Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line was opened, covering the distance in 2½ hours, and quickly became popular.

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