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Barajas International Airport
Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas

IATA: MAD – ICAO: LEMD
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aena
Location Madrid, Spain
Elevation AMSL 610 m / 2,000 ft
Coordinates 40°29′3″N 003°34′00″W / 40.48417, -3.566667
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15R/33L 4,100 13,451 Asphalt
18L/36R 3,500 11,483 Asphalt
15L/33R 3,500 11,483 Asphalt
18R/36L 4,350 14,272 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, the Iberian Peninsula and southern Europe. 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 (known as the "air bridge" in Spain) is currently the busiest in the world. [2]

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Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers (winning them the 2006 Stirling Prize), and TPS Engineers, (winning them the 2006 IStructE Award for Commercial Structures)[3] was built by Ferrovial[4] and inaugurated on February 5, 2006. Terminal 4 is one of the world's largest terminal area, with an area of 760,000 square meters (8,180,572 square feet) in two separate terminals. Consisting of a main building, T4 (470,000 square meter), and satellite building, T4S (290,000 square meter), which are separated by approximately 2.5 km. Hong Kong International Airport still holds the title for the world's largest single terminal building (Terminal 1) at 570,000 square meter. The new Terminal 4 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. Gate numbers are continuous in terminals 1, 2 and 3 (A1 to E89), but are separately numbered in terminal 4.

The Metro (see Metro Line 8), runs to Terminal 2 (from there you can walk to Terminals 1 and 3) and to Terminal 4. The Nuevos Ministerios metro station allowed checking-in[5] right by the AZCA business area in central Madrid, but this convenience has been suspended indefinitely after the building of Terminal 4[6]. In October 2006 a bid was launched for the construction of a Cercanías link between Chamartín train station and Terminal 4. When finished in 2009, a single Cercanías Line will link Madrid Barajas Terminal 4, with Chamartín and Atocha AVE high-speed train stations.[7]

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

  • airBaltic (Riga) (Starts June 16, 2008)
  • Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
  • Air Europa (Domestic and Schengen destinations: Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Palma, Malaga, Menorca, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Vigo)
  • Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
  • KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Oslo)
  • 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, Santiago de Compostela, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Valencia, Vienna, Vigo)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Madeira)

Terminal 4
Terminal 4
T4 at sunrise
T4 at sunrise
  • Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
  • Air Algérie (Algiers)
  • Air Senegal International (Dakar)
  • American Airlines (Miami)
  • Avianca (Bogotá, 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, Badajoz, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bogotá, Bologna, Bordeaux, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cagliari [seasonal], Cairo, Cancun, Caracas, Casablanca, Catania [seasonal], Chicago-O'Hare, Clermont-Ferrand [starts February, 2008], Copenhagen, Dakar, Delhi [starts January 2009], Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Gibraltar, Granada, Genoa, Gran Canaria, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Havana, Hong Kong [planned for 2009], 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, Montpellier [starts February, 2008], Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Murcia, Nantes, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Olbia [seasonal], Oporto, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Panama City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Prague, Quito, Pisa, Rennes [starts February, 2008], 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, St. Petersburg, Strasbourg, Tangier, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South,Tokyo-Narita[planned for 2009], Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vigo, Vitoria, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zaragoza, Zurich)
Terminal 4S
Terminal 4S

Main article: 2006 Madrid Barajas International Airport bombing
Image captured from inside a recently landed plane, just after explosion
Image captured from inside a recently landed plane, just after explosion

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).[8] After receipt of the warning, police were able to evacuate part of the airport.[9] Responsibility for the explosion has since been claimed by an anonymous caller claiming to represent ETA.[10]

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 body of the second victim from the rubble.

  1. ^ Aena
  2. ^ OAG data
  3. ^ TPS expertise recognised at Madrid Terminal 4
  4. ^ Ferrovial history
  5. ^ Inaugurado el intercambiador de Nuevos Ministerios en Madrid con servicio directo de metro al aeropuerto, Vía Libre, Nº 454, June 2002
  6. ^ Las aerolíneas descartan retomar la facturación en Nuevos Ministerios, ABC, 24 July 2007 (copy hosted by SEPLA).
  7. ^ Fomento
  8. ^ "Explosion hits parking lot at Madrid airport", Reuters, 2006-12-30. Retrieved on 2006-12-31. 
  9. ^ "Madrid bomb shatters ETA cease-fire", Reuters, 2006-12-31. Retrieved on 2006-12-31. 
  10. ^ Webb, Jason; Sanz, Inmaculada. "Four hurt in Madrid airport bomb, ETA claims attack", Reuters, 2006-12-30. Retrieved on 2006-12-31. 

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