Barcelona Airport

Barcelona Airport El Prat de Llobregat is located in the southwest of the Barcelona, at 6 meters on the sea level, among the municipal terms of El Prat de Llobregat, Viladecans and Sant Boi.
This spanish airport is part of the Public Entity Aena, Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, that it manages.

It's the second biggest airport in Spain behind Madrid Barajas, and the first in Catalonia and the Mediterranean coast, and is the ninth with more passenger traffic of Europe, according to statistics of 2004. The airport has the code of airport of IATA: BCN and the code ICAO: LEBL.   Barcelona airport has 3 takeoff and landing areas, two in parallel named 07L/25R and 07R/25L (this last opened on 2004), and one crossed, the 02/20. Besides, it has three terminals A, B and C, with 114 chek-in desk, and 24 boarding gates called M-0 (gates 1 to 8), M-1 (gates 10 to 19), M-2 (gates 20 to 29), M-3 (gates 30 to 39), M-4 (gates 40 to 49) and M-5 (gates 50 to 59). These modules are accessed through a passenger-only walkway located after the security checkpoints.

The Renfe Cercanías Line 10 links Barcelona airport with the centre of the city and the Sants and França railway stations (Estació de França). Also you can get there by bus (Aerobus and new line 77 from Sant Boi) and taxi service.

1.- Control tower 2.- Module 0 3.- Module 1 4.- Module 2 5.- Module 3 6.- Module 4 7.- Module 5 8.- Terminal A 9.- Terminal B 10.- Terminal C 11.- Technical block 12.- Parking PC 13.- Parking PA 14.- Access to the airport 15.- Exit

Currently the airport is undergoing a huge expansion, with the construction of a new terminal, expected to enter service in 2009. It will be situated between the old runway and the new parallel runway.
The expansion includes a bigger parking, the arrival of the future line of Metro and other performances.