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El Prat airport wants to connect Barcelona with Tokyo, Mexico, Bangkok, Chile and India

 

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El Prat airport, in historical traffic records, is more international than ever. With an intercontinental traffic of 7.2 million passengers in 2017, a figure that triples that registered in 2005; 45 destinations; 297 frequencies and a growth of 521% of intercontinental traffic, the Barcelona airport has made a quantitative and quantitative leap in recent years.

And according to the strategic plan of the Air Route Development Committee (CDRA) for 2018-2019, the potential for growth is increasing. Currently, there is an unmet demand of 4.5 million international passengers; travelers with origin and / or destination Barcelona who would fly directly but who do not find adequate offer from the airlines.

A demand that continues to grow and has increased by more than one million passengers since the presentation of the last strategic plan of the CDRA, in 2015. According to the strategic plan, 2018-2019, the routes with the highest demand for direct traffic and that still do not operate in El Prat are Tokyo (182,000 passengers per year), Mexico (88,500 passengers), Bangkok (75,900 passengers), Santiago de Chile (68,500 passengers) and Delhi (65,200 passengers). “The top priority is to El Prat flight to Tokyo, so traffic route as per the demand of the Catalan economic fabric,” Ricard said yesterday Font, Secretary of Infrastructures & Mobility of the Generalitat president of CDRA.

However, Font acknowledged that the opening of the route is not imminent and becomes the main objective for the summer season of 2019. The two major Japanese airlines, ANA and JAL, as well as Level, the long-haul low cost IAG group, are the main candidates to operate the route. Precisely, Japan Airlines (JAL) announced yesterday the launch of a new low-cost long-haul company in 2020, which will operate between Narita Airport (Tokyo) and destinations in Asia, Europe and America initially with two Boeing 787- 800

As for Mexico, Font said that “it seems that by 2018 we will have good news, with an almost assured success” and a demand of 144,000 passengers. Recently, Emirates announced that it would operate the Dubai-Barcelona-Mexico City route after obtaining the fifth freedom from the Spanish Government. Although the Mexican authorities have suspended it in the interest of Aeromexico to fly to Barcelona still without a date to launch the route, the Generalitat trusts that the flight started this year in one of the two previous options.

The strategy for the next few years is to get new routes and deseasonalize them, increase frequencies and attract new operators, and for the moment this 2018 already has the route to Boston (United States) operated by Level, and Asiana will connect the Catalan capital with Seoul (South Korea) from August.

In terms of routes with growth capacity, the CDRA highlights New York, which still has an indirect traffic of almost 150,000 passengers per year, as well as Buenos Aires, with 125,000 indirect passengers. Other destinations in similar situation are Seoul, Los Angeles, Shanghai or Miami. “We believe that Barcelona represents a great opportunity for airlines,” summarized Font.

President of CDRA also stressed that the agency, composed of the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council, Aena and the Chamber of Commerce, has exceeded the targets set in the previous strategic plan with direct routes such as Beijing, Shanghai, San Francisco , Los Angeles, Boston or Seoul, as well as with the increase of frequencies to destinations of greater demand.

Traffic between Barcelona and the United States grew by 82% in the first quarter of the year, while that of Madrid only increased by 7.5% in the same period. In total, traffic between the Spanish and US markets grew by 25%, according to Aena. For each new passenger that created Madrid from one year to the next, Barcelona has generated 3.4 passengers. The main responsible for this growth has been the low cost Norwegian, with an increase of 76.2% of the traffic to this market in the first quarter of the year. Also Level, from the IAG group, has boosted the American market. In this way, the market share of Barcelona has gone from 23.8% to 34.6%, while Madrid has dropped from 76.2% from the last start of the year to the current 65.4%.

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PRIVATE JET AIRPORTS & FBOS IN SPAIN

Spain offers a large number of private jet airports, which allow passengers to reach their destination fast and with as little ground transfer time as possible.

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Larger airports such as Madrid and Barcelona’s international airports, offer dedicated terminals and FBO facilities, which offer privacy and a fast arrival and departure. There are no waiting times to pass through customs or check in mean that you can be at the airport for as little as 15 minutes before departure.

Our most popular private jet airports in Spain include:

Madrid Adolfo Suarez International Airport

Adolfo Suarez airport began to take on most of Madrid’s private jet flights after the popular private jet airport at Madrid Torrejon reverted to a military-only airport in 2013.

The airport has 4 runways, is open 24-hours and it has a range of private jet FBOs offering private jet handling services, including Service Airline Security Madrid and Gestair Madrid.

Barcelona El Prat International Airport

Located 7.5 miles southwest of Barcelona, Barcelona Airport is just 15 minutes from the city and offers 3 runways and 24-hour access.

FBO facilities at Barcelona Airport include Execujet Barcelona and OCC Gestair Barcelona. 

Girona Costa Brava Airport

Girona Airport is a smaller airport just to the east of Barcelona and offers another option for those travelling to the Barcelona area. It is particularly popular with those visiting the Spanish Grand Prix and the Costa Brava region.

Malaga Airport

Pablo Ruiz Picasso Malaga airport serves the southern Costa del Sol region and includes a general aviation terminal for private jet flights.

FBO facilities at Malaga Airport include Gestair Malaga.
Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI)

Palma de Mallorca Airport sees demand all-year-round from private jet travelers. It is situated less than 15 minutes from the city centre of Palma and also serves the whole island.

FBO facilities at Palma de Mallorca Airport include Mallorcair General Aviation Services.

Ibiza Airport

Ibiza Airport (also known as Aeroport d’Ibiza San Jose) sees a huge surge of demand between May and October each year. The 24-hour airport is located in the south west of the island, and it has a dedicated terminal for private jet passengers.

Also serving Formentera

FBO services at Ibiza Airport include Ibizair, Execujet Ibiza and Gestair.

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Brian Eno, exhibition in Barcelona

Barcelona Airport hosts a sound installation with the musician’s latest album

 

Brian Eno in Barcelona 

The Arts Santa Mònica de Barcelona dedicates the most complete exhibition so far to the electronic and experimental music composer Brian Eno, which is complemented by an installation at the El Prat Airport that puts the musician’s latest album, Reflection, on the speakers.

“I had never thought that my music for airports would end up playing in one of them,” although it is not the first time because this has already happened in Berlin and Sao Paolo, has also celebrated the visual artist and producer in the presentation of the show Brian Eno . Lightforms / Soundforms.

Organized in collaboration with Sónar + D, after Eno gave the inaugural lecture of the Barcelona Festival’s professional competition in 2016, the exhibition merges music and light from the hand of recent works in contact with older projects and a selection of the pages of his notebooks in which he turns creative processes.

Both curator Lluís Nacenta and Eno himself have insisted that the exhibition is not a retrospective of the musician, because he does not feel so old as to receive this treatment, and for this reason the exhibition refuses showcases and focuses on proposing spaces Experiences.

“It is not an exhibition to travel, but to be” and to come calmly without crowds, Eno has suggested, that in the cloister Max Cahner shows a new piece, which considers the most complex in what generative music is concerned.

Between blue and green lights and a central area of ​​sofas, the piece New Space Music proposes an immersive experience in an Eno work created through the freezing of various fragments of music generated through algorithms and that together form a new sound landscape With “some melodic games,” observed Nacenta.

“This piece is no longer generative music, but rather frozen,” U2 producer Talking Heads, David Bowie and Coldplay, who also shows how new light boxes of colors change with calibrated and very fine speeds of change , Explained the commissioner.

Eno, who graduated from college as a visual artist, conceives these light boxes as moving paintings, and in the large-format piece 77 million paintings proposes 77 million combinations of paintings based on drawings and works he has done throughout of his career.

It is a great generative audiovisual installation, with which the images and the sounds that compose it evolve indefinitely, according to a followed by norms that have a certain statistical dimension.

Thus, each combination of light and sound would take millions of years to repeat itself, so when the exhibition ends on October 1, millions of combinations will remain to be formulated.

In the exhibition, you can also see applications created by Eno, and in some cases have become therapeutic tools to treat disorders of the autistic spectrum, something that the musician has celebrated.

In fact, the composer created eight years ago a reduced version of the exhibition at an oncology center in England in which patients and medical staff face frequent panic states, which has garnered numerous fruits among users.

“Music has a therapeutic function,” said Eno, who argues that everyone is in a position to be creative and become an artist. “Children learn by playing, and the older we play with art and hopefully continue to think as children and as artists,” concluded the producer, after claiming the role of the arts.

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Singapore Airlines Barcelona news

Singapore Airlines to operate two weekly flights between Barcelona and Singapore without stopping in Milan

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Singapore Airlines will operate two weekly flights without technical stop in Milan on the Barcelona-Singapore route, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

The airline will offer these two non-stop flights with the new Airbus A350-900 on Friday and Monday from Barcelona to Singapore and Thursdays and Sundays from Singapore to Barcelona, while it will continue to operate three flights to Singapore via Milan on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays , Offering a total of five flights a week connecting Barcelona with the hub of the airline in Singapore.

The technical stop in Milan for the five weekly flights of the Barcelona-Milan route was introduced in October last year, and the Singapore Airlines general manager in Spain and Portugal, Deryk Liew, has stated that the recent arrival of the A350 at the airport Barcelona offers an “operational efficiency that allows a greater deployment of resources”.

On April 3, the company celebrated the official arrival of the Airbus A350-900 at El Prat Airport, the first of these characteristics to operate a regular route to and from Barcelona.

The new A350 fleet accommodates 253 passengers in three classes: 42 Business class seats, 24 in the new Premium Economy class and 187 tourist class seats.

The airline has highlighted that this aircraft is a “key element” of the growth and renewal strategy of the Singapore Airlines fleet, as it provides the company with the opportunity to open new routes, offering more travel options to customers

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The Barcelona airport leaves a record 2016 and sets a course in the growth of intercontinental flights, the most wanted

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With more than 44 million passengers in 2016, Barcelona-El Prat airport has once again lived a record year in all figures: it has increased by 11.2% the number of travelers compared to the previous year, has added a 6 , 6% more operations, totaling 307,864 takeoffs and landings and also has grown more than 13% in air cargo, surpassing the 132 million kilos transported in airplanes pure freight or in the cellars of airplanes of passage.

Of all the airports with which Barcelona has direct flights, nine of them exceeded one million passengers with El Prat. Three are Spanish: Madrid, Palma and Ibiza and the rest Europeans: London-Gatwick, Rome-Fiumicino, Amsterdam-Schiphol, Paris-De Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Frankfurt.

Of these traffic can be clearly distinguished two aspects: the point to point, that is to say, passengers that specifically target the city of destination, as it is the case of Ibiza, Palma, Orly or Gatwick and others where the link flights have great weight , As they are large European hubs of companies like Air France / KLM, in the footsteps of Charles de Gaulle and Schiphol, Lufthansa in case of Frankfurt, Alitalia in Fiumicino (although this would be the less striking hub) and Iberia in Madrid to link Barcelona with the wide American network of the Spanish airline.

The chart showing that El Prat comes out of the crisis better than Barajas
By 2017, in addition to a safe increase in passenger numbers and operations in El Prat, there will be numerous changes in the behavior of the ticket that travel to and from Barcelona thanks to a good number of new features in the long-haul sector, wanted in an airport more than consolidated in Europe and that wants to gain weight in the world map with new direct flights to America and Asia.

On Thursday, a direct route to Hong Kong, which will be operated by one of the most prestigious and award-winning companies in the world, will be officially inaugurated: Cathay Pacific, founded 70 years ago in the former colony which launched direct flights to Spain in summer 2016 arriving in Madrid.

The icing on the cake in Hong Kong

Only a year later will also fly to Barcelona with its most modern aircraft: the Airbus A350, which will cover an unsatisfied demand of about 62,000 people, who travel between the two cities having to go through a third with flights , according to data managed by CDRA, El Prat Air Route Development Committee.

Another great airline news for this year will be the direct flight from Barcelona to Seoul, in South Korea, a link that is not a novelty, since it has already been operating under special flights, and now, already consolidated option , These links become regular from the hand of the award-winning Korean Air. Also from Asia two flights are recovered that were canceled during almost two years: the routes to Islamabad and Lahore operated by PIA, Pakistan International Airlines.

For its part, the holding IAG, which includes operators British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia, Iberia Express and Vueling also promises novelties for 2017 with a bet that has caused surprise and feelings found between businessmen traveling from Barcelona: joy and also some skepticism after the news that the group will base in El Prat some Airbus A330 with intercontinental reach to fly to some destinations in Asia and America that have not yet been 100% specified, nor which will finally be the operator, although they could Be Los Angeles, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Havana and Tokyo.

The latter is perhaps one of the most anticipated destinations on both sides of the line, as each year just over 162,000 passengers fly between Barcelona and Tokyo through an intermediate hub.

Will there be flight to Tokyo?

The IAG bet creating a likely new brand to experience long-haul flights at tighter prices would be clearly inspired by the company that will star in one of the most anticipated take-offs of 2017: Norwegian, which has already consolidated in Barcelona as one of the Major domestic and European flight operators, has already launched its new long-haul flights this summer: four routes that will operate its brand-new Boeing 787 Dreamliner based in Barcelona and fly to Los Angeles, Oakland, next to San Francisco , Fort Lauderdale, north of Miami and New York-Newark, which is the only route that was already being covered by another airline currently, in this case, United Airlines.

These four flights to the United States are the first of an ambitious Norwegian intercontinental expansion from Barcelona that also targets destinations in South America such as Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, although not officially confirmed, although unofficially they are already almost assured, as apparently also appears to be a new direct route with China, in this case Shanghai, the second one from Barcelona, since the one of Beijing, that serves China Airlines, already has some seasons in active and last year reached the 60,000 passengers.

Norwegian expansion

As for other long-distance routes already consolidated, the one that has a greater volume of passage is the one of Dubai, with the double daily flight of Emirates in its Airbus A380, that in 2016 carried 532,500 passengers. Most of them did not stay there, but Emirates airport was a point of passage between the airline’s extensive network of Asian destinations and Catalunya, similar to what happened last year with Istanbul-Ataturk and Doha-Hamad , the hubs of Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways. The first had 371,400 passengers from and to Barcelona and the second exceeded 352,000.

The fourth most important long-haul route from Barcelona in terms of passenger volume was a classic: New York-JFK, with just over 326,000 passengers, plus 126,000 who flew to or from Newark, the second airport serving that city.

New York, fourth route in volume

Bogotá was consolidated as the fifth long-distance line from Barcelona thanks to Avianca‘s bet with its direct flights between Catalunya and Colombia, used by more than 168,000 passengers while the line to Sao Paulo reached in 2016 the 150,000 users thanks to two companies : LatAm and Singapore Airlines, although the latter withdrew from it because of the Brazilian recession, which made the route lose attractive and has remained with the line that has been operating for a decade: The Prat-Changi in Singapore Last year was used by 72,500 passengers.

Other intercontinental routes from Barcelona that had remarkable numbers were several to North America: Miami, with 147,000 passengers; Toronto, with 136,000; Atlanta, with 94,000, despite being seasonal only from May to October; Philadelphia, with 86,000; Montreal, with 80,000; Washington, with 61,000, and Charlotte, with 58,000.

Notable figures in North America
In addition to the flight to the economic capital of Brazil, Latam also launched a second route in the last days of 2016: Lima, which in a few days was used by 3,000 passengers and aims to be a line that in 2017 can reach notable figures, style of another that flies to the south cone directly: Buenos Aires-Ezeiza with Aerolíneas Argentinas, which surpassed 122,000 users last year and during this time it will grow due to the arrival of new operators to this Catalunya-Argentina link.

As for Africa, the figures are more discreet and the more remote flights operated from El Prat remain at the gates of 20,000 passengers, as in the case of Banjul or around 10,000 in the case of Dakar and Accra. With everything already accumulated and what is to come, 2017 will be a very interesting aeronautical exercise for the installation that Aena manages in El Prat.

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American Airlines Barcelona-Chicago

The airline intends to use the summer to launch the new service, between the months of May and September

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The US company American Airlines announced Friday on his Twitter account that will link the airport of Barcelona El Prat to Chicago directly from May 2017.

The airline intends to use the summer to launch the new service, between the months of May and September. The purchase of tickets can be made from this coming September 12. Currently, American Airlines connects Barcelona to New York and Miami directly throughout the year, with other destinations in summer.

With this news, El Prat continues to increase its direct destinations to the United States. Last Wednesday, the low cost Norwegian made public that connect Barcelona to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Miami from June 2017 to establish a base longhaul in El Prat.

In 2017, from El Prat you will be able to travel to Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington.

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United Airlines Barcelona-Washington

Today the first plane has taken off from the Catalan capital and is expected to last until the service on October 29

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United Airlines, the result of the union between Continental Airlines and United, has launched Thursday seasonal, daily, nonstop service between Barcelona and Washington, to mark the tenth anniversary of the company in the Catalan capital connection. The flights will be operated by Boeing 767-400 aircraft model, with a capacity of 242 seats and is expected to last until the service on 29 October. The US company started business in Barcelona on 18 May 2006. In these 10 years transported about 970,000 customers in more than 6,000 flights on the direct route between Barcelona and New York.

Thorsten Lettnin, director of United Airlines in Europe, and Sonia Corrochano, director of the Barcelona-El Prat Airport, presided over the opening ceremony, which took place in the airport terminal T1 Barcelona. During the event, Lettnin stressed the importance of this new route as it will connect Barcelona to anywhere in the United States in less time, thanks to the hub (airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to cover their destinations) that United Airlines has in the US capital.

Meanwhile, Corrochano stressed that Washington is a destination that has been working in recent years. “It’s very important to have this direct flight, originally scheduled for fewer months but that given the good acceptance, the company has extended until the end of October,” he said.

United Airlines operates in Spain since 1991. Currently, there are no stairs flights from Barcelona and Madrid to New York / Newark. Last May 6 was launched seasonal connection between Madrid and Washington / Dulles, also in daily frequency and nonstop. The commercial director of the company in Spain, Antonio de Toro, was pleased to offer, for the third consecutive year, US customers “further options” with this service between the two capitals, as well as the launch today of the new service without scales between Barcelona and Washington.

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Barcelona Airport new flights

In 2015, a total of 3.5 million passengers made intercontinental scale

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There is a demand to open new long-haul flights from Barcelona. The Development Committee of Air Routes (CDRA) of the Catalan capital is convinced of it. This body, composed of Aena, the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the Chamber of Commerce, which supports data. Of the 5.6 million intercontinental travelers or from El Prat last year, only two million flew directly. The remaining 3.6 million correspond to connecting routes with other airports. Thus, the objective for the coming years is to convert some of these direct links, mainly to North America and Asia-Pacific operations being treated with airlines.

Countries identified as targets in the strategic plan 2016-2017 of the CDRA are those who already have a critical mass that justifies having direct flights. Tokyo tops, which last year had 164,385 passengers to or from the Catalan capital, all indirect. In Seoul, only 12,447 traveled nonstop by 139,188 they did with connection. There are nine other airports intercontinental destinations with more than 50,000 annual passengers flying via other citieslong.

President CDRA and secretary of Infrastructures and Mobility of the Generalitat, Ricard Font, moved that the main efforts focus on opening direct flights to California (San Francisco or Los Angeles), Boston and Tokyo, although he acknowledged it will not be easy because although there is demand to justify the operation from the commercial point of view, airlines may not have enough planes to meet these routes.

In any case, the CDRA has been proposed that within two years Barcelona enter the group of the 42 major global airports with more than 10,000 passengers daily intercontinental routes (direct and indirect flights). El Prat current-mind has about 8,000. A tool that can help position the Catalan capital in this market long haul is that Barcelona will host in September next year, the World Routes Forum, an event that has the participation of airlines around the world year . also it wants to grow in cargo freight, transport interests the great Eastern customers. Synergies with cruises and intermodality with train are other aspects that are to continue strengthening.

Those responsible for the CDRA did yesterday balance of the first ten years of the agency, which was created to capture new intercontinental routes. At that time, this radio traffic El Prat has doubled from 2.2 million to 5.6 million travelers and 17 to 34 destinations, with some as prominent as Dubai, Banjul, Singapore and Bogota. Passengers on direct flights have increased sixfold, from 345 thousand to 2 million, the weekly frequencies have tripled (from 72 to 234) and seats offered, quintupled (from 324,000 to 1,600,000 per year).

The airport director, Sonia Corrochano, recalled that last year the absolute record of passengers (39.7 million), up 5% from 2014 and further growth of long-haul (+ 12%) fought. In the first quarter of 2016, the trend continues to rise (+ 16% in total passengers and + 17% on intercontinental routes).

The main novelties for this summer season are increased frequencies Montreal and Toronto (Air Canada and Air Transcat), New York (Delta) and a new Washington (United). Also they grow Tel Aviv (Al) and increases the ability to Dubai (Emirates). TAM increases frequencies to Sao Paulo and opens Ryanair flight to Marrakech. In addition, Vueling, opens route to Constantine (Algeria) and Cape Verde and increases frequencies to Algiers, Oran, Tangier and Tel Aviv.

 

Easyjet based in Barcelona

Easyjet opens in Barcelona the base which closed in Madrid in 2012

Easyjet based in Barcelona

The airline EasyJet has opened its base in Barcelona, the only one in Spain and number 28 in Europe, which will have three aircraft, for which it has hired 120 new workers and that it hopes to grow this year by 7% in passenger numbers at El Prat, to 3.1 million.

The CEO of Easyjet in Spain, Javier Gándara, noted the interest of the company to grow in El Prat and its commitment to consolidating Catalunya connection with Europe through the Barcelona airport to “keep bringing tourists” and connect the world Catalan business with the rest of Europe.

New connections

The opening of the base of El Prat, which, so far, has three Airbus 320 aircraft, will open two new connections this summer, Bordeaux and Naples, increasing frequencies and enhanced connectivity of cities like Geneva or Basel, to facilitate the work business passengers.

In this regard, he explained that have agreements with agencies to continue enhanced corporate business tourism trips, which the company accounts for 20% of all travelers.

Gandara recalled that Barcelona was, along with Amsterdam, the first European airport to EasyJet flew out of the UK in 1996.

2.8 million passengers

Currently, the airline flies to Barcelona from 16 European airports, carrying over 2.8 million passengers each year and, since it operates in the city, easyJet has transported 32 million passengers, equivalent to 300 times fill the Camp Nou.

On the possibility of opening new bases in Spain, such as Madrid, Gandara said that for this year were Barcelona and Venice and new ones are being planned worldwide.

Rule out the long distance

Asked about the interest of the airline to make long-haul flights, Gándara has insisted that the company “that’s a distraction,” and, with a market share of 8%, still have a lot of development to be done in the short and medium haul, “which is what we do well.”

The opening ceremony has also been chaired by the director of the Network of Aena Aeropuertos, Fernando Echegaray, and the director of Barcelona airport, Sonia Corrochano, and has received the traditional water cannon to welcome one of the A320 based in El Prat, and the symbolic cutting of the ribbon to inaugurate the base.

In this regard, Echegaray remarked that today is an important day for the opening of this new basis for El Prat, which closed in 2015 hovering around 40 million passengers.

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Barcelona-El Prat Airport 25 years

The January 29, 1991 came up the airlift in the old T2, designed by Ricardo Bofill

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The Barcelona-El Prat Airport is anniversary. 25 years ago, a January 29, 1991, released the T2 terminal shuttle, which is now in the new T1.

The appointment of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 led to a major refurbishment of the airport grounds and the construction of new terminals, designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, as the new terminal.

The first terminal to be released was the airlift (formerly T2C) in January 1991, a little later and that same year, the international flight terminal A is open and entering service in 1992 the renovated terminal B, which kept the structure of the old building in 1968.

A first flight with only 80 passengers

Specifically, the first aircraft airlift of new T2 terminal then came to 6.45 hours, an M-47 on January 29, 1991, and was not full, with only 80 passengers.

And no shortage of anecdotes. “Passengers were unable to phone Madrid, confirming their departure, or home or office, not run in the first hour of 16 telephones installed in the terminal” as collected in the article published in La Vanguardia on the issue Wednesday January 30, 1991.

One of the main innovations of the time was that for the first time Barcelona El Prat Airport premiered the ‘fingers’, the jetways that allow direct boarding the aircraft.

He also launched the first phase of what is dubbed Rambla, an interior street a kilometer long served to unite the terminals that were performed with the remodeling project.

The design also took into account that passengers during their wait had a privileged view of the landing and takeoff of aircraft. “An Air side façade has a fully glazed modules and high street boarding image was made,” he noted in the architecture workshop project Ricardo Bofill.

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New Stage

Since then the airport has continued to expand. One of its highlights was the launch of the current Terminal 1, opened in June 2009.

The Barcelona-El Prat Airport, which closed in 2015 its best year ever with 39.7 million passengers, continues to renew itself. A new stage will start when the February 12 L9 metro reaches the airport.

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Barcelona 85 days without rain

Barcelona, within walking distance of its record without rain

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Drought threatens the city of Barcelona, ​​that today even its record (1928) of days without rain or rain less than a liter per square meter. If it does not rain tomorrow, the Catalan capital will have covered its longest dry spell since systematic records began in 1914, according to data series Fabra Observatory, situated at the foot of Tibidabo.

Since November 4, it has hardly rained in Barcelona. If you consider all the water falling in these 85 days, the sum yields just 1.5 l / m2, a negligible amount. It has been exceeded, so the previous record of 70 days with less precipitation per liter per square meter, which dates from 2007, when the last major drought was conceived. You have to go back to 1928 to find a similar situation. Then, there was a dry period between May 22 and August 14. And a curiosity: “If you count the days without rain or with less than or equal to one liter per square meter rains, the dry spell is the continuation of 1928, which would total 108 days,” says Alfons Puertas meteorologist Fabra Observatory.

All this comes after a year with very few rainfall. Last year, in Barcelona, ​​only they fell 345.8l / m2, considerably less than the previous driest, according to the historical series, which was 1937 (401.8 liters) year. Another highlight more record: 2015 was the warmest year (16,6 ° C, tied with 2006).

This lack of rain has not resulted in the image of very dry trees or plants or agonizing situation. Luck for vegetation, unlike what occurred with previous records, is now drought occurs in winter when the plants need less water. “In winter, the life cycle of plants is slowed. There is so much evaporation and water loss and summer, “explains Alfons doors.
The weatherman says that there is a trend towards a decrease in rainfall in Barcelona. “We found a great irregularity, no clear trend in the last century,” says Gates. Instead, it is obvious that heating in Barcelona, ​​as confirmed by records from the eighties of the last century.

The shortage of rainfall has not resulted so far in a lack of water reserves to supply in the region of Barcelona and Girona, as reservoirs of the Ter and Llobregat are at 71.9% of its maximum capacity. However, the decline in its level is becoming worrying. “The water reserves in the reservoirs are down 20 points from last year. Autumn shot failed and now we played in the spring, “says Ignacio Escudero, CEO of Aguas de Barcelona, ​​to remember the contributions of rainfall occur mainly in autumn and spring, and the ability to the inland basins to store resources is very limited.

Experts believe that in the region Barcelona a drought occurs every five years. They have earned water resources through the desalination of El Prat, but there is still a structural deficit of water.

In Barcelona, ​​they now consume 104 liters a day per person. “We are the European city, with Copenhagen and Brussels, which consume less water,” Escudero added. Since 2007 consumption has been reduced by 20% (about 55 hm3al year, almost equivalent to the ability to produce drinking water from desalination of El Prat). And what is due this reduction? “The 70 percent is due to a reduction in demand; a more rational use of water is made with taps, cisterns or more adapted appliances, and 30% was achieved through improved management, including control of leaks, “Escudero said.

Experience shows that the locals, when they reduce their consumption after a drought, maintain those habits.

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Airport records

The El Prat airport sector maintained the upward trend thanks to the tourist positioning of Barcelona and the promotion of low cost airlines. And it has not peaked yet

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El Prat touch the sky. It will record on record. The Barcelona airport has six years winning passengers. A success story that does not seem to end. As recently said Kenny Jacobs, director of marketing for Ryanair, “it seems that everyone wants to come to Barcelona”.

How is possible? Xavier Fageda has worked in recent years side by side with the academic Germà Bel in airport issues. “The growth of El Prat in recent years has several explanations. The main capacity was expanded with the new runway in 2004 and the new terminal in 2009. The other key factor is the expansion of tourism in Barcelona and this has led to low cost to take positions. Also important has been the good management of the leading company in El Prat Vueling “.

Sonia Corrochano, director of the airport of El Prat de Barcelona highlights some oddities. “The city is among the four preferred destinations in Europe in social networks. Additionally statistics show that many people who come here for tourism repeated. And eight out of ten cruise passengers arriving by plane to embark on one of the cruises from the city. And this is a growing sector. ”

Spain as a whole is experiencing a sweet period from the tourist point of view because passenger traffic growing more than 25 months. The rise in international passenger traffic is driving, especially following the collapse of competitive markets such as Tunisia and Egypt. But it has also diversified its proposal.

According to the hotel association CEHAT, the supply of sun and sand has risen from more than 90% of Spanish tourism at 72%. “Few European countries have an airport network as extensive quality and quality as in Spain that connects so many different cities,” said Albert Grau and Bruno Hallé are responsible for tourism consultant Magma

Barcelona takes advantage of this situation because it offers everything at once: vacation tourism destination and insurance business and convention town. The current improvement in the economy is the icing on the cake. From Magma stress that, for example, “people company values the urban tourism and leisure. In a context of economic recovery, this group of travelers, less seasonality, it becomes crucial. ” These experts also stand out as the launch of El Prat “it is the reflection of a successful tourism promotion policy on the part of local institutions in recent years.”

“The surveys we conduct among our customers indicate that Barcelona is one of the (if not the) favorite destinations. Therefore, next year will transport more than 6.3 million people in El Prat, 500,000 more than last year, “José Espartero, director of marketing for Ryanair Spain, the company that transports passengers in Spanish skies. “Historically, the city has recorded more incoming flights, but we are seeing that departing flights are growing very significantly. Next summer we will increase our network of routes from Barcelona, with 3 new destinations to Berlin, Hamburg and Marrakech, “said Espartero.

In 2012 EasyJet had a base in Barajas. Now they have just installed in Barcelona. “Twenty years ago El Prat airport was the first in which we operate outside the UK for what is happening is not surprising at all,” recalls Javier Gandara, CEO of EasyJet to Spain and Portugal. “Behind the success of El Prat she is the fact that it is a destination in itself. And the low cost airlines, which previously flew from secondary airports, which have assumed and positioned themselves here, “Gandara said. There is a temporary factor that also plays into the Barcelona airport right now says this executive of EasyJet. “With the drop in oil prices, many low cost to them would not come before the accounts have decided to operate again. And this means that there is more supply, more competition and therefore more traffic. ”

Given these figures, Aena rubs his hands. Because the Barcelona airport, living an uptrend, is very profitable. In 2014 El Prat won twelve times Barajas and represents more than half of the benefits of airport management. “The reform of the commercial offer of the T2 and increased traffic generated higher revenues,” said airport sources.

The growth of the Barcelona terminal those years has gone hand in hand with Vueling. Fernando Estrada, Director of Strategy and Alliances of this airline believes “this pace is sustained, steady and it has nothing to bubble. Their bases are solid. Now after years we have created a hub in Barcelona, with passengers throughout the year and put the city in place in the airport market. The proof is that now more and more long-haul airlines have decided to come here. ”

Indeed, one of the common criticisms is that Barcelona has yet to lead in the long haul. But this aspect is also changing. Since 2006 the number of intercontinental routes has doubled. This week Emirates, announced that it will operate two daily flights between Barcelona and Dubai with the A380, the world’s largest aircraft. This introduction involves increasing the capacity by 32% over the current long-haul offer this airline.

“This reflects our confidence and commitment to the market in Barcelona,” explains Fernando Suarez de Gongora, CEO of Emirates. “We see potential both for those traveling to Barcelona from Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East as well as for travel to these regions, whether for business or tourist purposes”. Xavier Fageda states that “in relation to long-haul flights, the improvement on the growing presence of Asian and American airlines in the European market also tend to be positioned outside the major European hubs that are highly saturated, for example in Barcelona”.

Does El Prat ability to make this leap ?. Technically, yes. Corrochano recalls that current facilities can manage to reach 55 million passengers, ie 35% more than the current traffic. “You may add a level comparable to other T2 volume,” he says. You can also increase to 25% the number of operations per hour. The skies are clear.

 

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Barcelona, the greatest ‘hub’ European low cost airlines

Barcelona surpasses John F. Kennedy airport and Gatwick in number of flights of low cost, the study OAG Megahubs Index

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The Barcelona-El Prat leading European hubs in number of flights of low cost airlines ahead of American John F. Kennedy, facilities and Gatwick British Indian capital of Delhi, the study OAG Megahubs Index.

In particular, the Barcelona airport is leading the European rankings and is in 15th place worldwide, being the only Spanish in the top 25 of the study, which analyzes the number of flights on the day of greater global activity of air operations. On the other hand, UK has two airports in the ranking, ranking 22 and 23 of the list, with facilities Gatwick and London-Stansted.

However, globally wins the battle United States, which accounts for the first three places and stands out from the rest by far the Midway airports in Chicago; the Baltimore-Washington in Maryland; and McCarran, in the state of Clark, Nevada, and eight kilometers from Las Vegas. Thus, 60% occupy the top ten airports whose operations are dominated by Southwest Airlines.

Also it notes, positioning within budget airlines airport in Southeast Asia. Specifically, Indonesia, Thailand, who manage some of the top ten.

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Globally, it is detected that 48% of interconnection hubs -center flights- are concentrated in the United States, 32% in Asia-Pacific and 10% in Europe, while Latin America covers 8% of the total, Middle East 2%.

Specifically, the first eight megahubs airport facilities occupy Hartsfield-Jackson, south of Atlanta business district, followed by Chicago O’Hare, northwest of Chicago, the third largest city in population, and in third Instead, the Dallas-Fort Worth, the busiest airport in Texas.

In the case of US hubs, the study emphasized that most of these are controlled by a single carrier. Thus, Delta Airlines takes over 80% in Atlanta, American Airlines pilots 81% in Dallas / Fort worht; US Airways is made with up to 88% of flights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport, while United gets the 76% of operations in Houston.

In the following positions the Charlotte Douglas Airport is located in the state of North Carolina; the George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas, and the largest in the state of Michigan Metro Detroit in Detroit,. On the other hand, the Denver airport achieved eighth place, while the Phoenix-Sky Harbor closes the top ten.

The only breaking the American leadership are Congonhas airport facilities / Sau Paulo, the second busiest in the country and the international airport of Mexico.

Among the 50 airports in the ranking there are only four Europeans who are Heathrow, London; Frankfurt; Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam, at number 13, 35, 43 and 44, respectively.

Rise of India and China

Latin America sneak into the list, in addition to the above two airports, one in Brazil and another in Mexico, the Sao Paulo-Guarulhos and Bogota, ranking 19 and 38 respectively, which add up total of four airports in the ranking.

Moreover, India and China have two three megahubs starting from number 20. Specifically, Mumbai ranks Delhi on 21 and 26, while the Asian giant stands out from the rest of the Shanghai-Pudong airport, Beijing and Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, in positions 31, 47 and 48, respectively.

Thailand closes the list with two airports, as well as Malaysia and the Philippines, also in the tail of the ranking.

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Sao Paulo-Barcelona connection

Barcelona and the Brazilian city will be joined in October by a new direct flight: a BOEING 767, the airline TAM -of Group- Latam Airlines, made the trip three times a week | More than 30% of the passenger traffic between Spain and Brazil have their origin or destination airport Barcelona | intercontinental journey with the support of the Air Route Development Committee of Barcelona

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Latam Airlines Group presented on 13th July its new direct flight between Barcelona and Sao Paulo: a Boeing 767 operated by TAM cover from October, three times a week, the journey between the two cities. The group of airlines in -líder Southamerica – reinforces the connectivity between Europe and its main hub, the airport of Guarulhos in Sao Paulo, one of the largest and most modern in the American continent and gateway to over 115 destinations the region-; while the Catalan capital is positioned as a strategic connection with South America, and the flight will allow passengers from anywhere in Europe to link Barcelona to Sao Paulo and vice versa.

More than 175,000 passengers fly each year between Barcelona and Brazil. More than 30% of traffic between Spain and the Latin American country in fact has its origin or its destination at Barcelona-El Prat Airport. The movements of travelers between the two countries have grown over the past five years 5% on average, and Barcelona have grown 8% annually in the same period. These figures place Barcelona airport over other Spanish airports and justifying the interest shown Latam Airlines Group by the potential of the new direct route between Barcelona and Sao Paulo.

“We are very proud to see that Barcelona will participate directly in this huge opportunity, from our perspective, we believe that South America represents for Europe, thanks to this new route linking Barcelona with Brazil and the continent South America “explained during the presentation, the Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Rodrigo Contreras, CEO of LATAM Airlines in Europe who, moreover, emphasized the” invaluable assistance of the Committee Routes Barcelona whose support has been crucial to the development of this project. ”

The Air Route Development Committee -the CDRA-, created in 2005 by the City Council, the Government, the Chamber of Commerce and AENA works for attracting direct intercontinental routes to Barcelona-El Prat Airport, a journeys tend to contribute to the economic recovery of the regions involved: not in vain, airports are among the facilities that have more capacity to channel international economic flows to their areas of influence.

Experts say that there is a direct impact of new air routes in generating employment and creating economic activity for every million passengers receiving an airport generates 3,000 direct and indirect jobs. And in terms of value added, the economic importance of airports accounts for 2-3% of GDP in the corresponding region.

The offer of international flights is also a determining factor for location in a specific city of the corporate headquarters of companies with international focus: 10% increase in the supply of these flights increases to four % the number of corporate headquarters installed in a large urban area.

Quality tourism

Barcelona-Sao Paulo route should also help to consolidate a sustainable tourism model. Brazilians who visit the city often demanded quality: their motivation is cultural; not seeking sun and sand resources they already have plenty -of high quality- and without leaving home. Brazil also is the third country outside the EU average in terms of expenditure incurred by tourists.

Economic issues aside, the new route also promote good social and cultural relations between Barcelona and Sao Paulo -in throughout history, both cities have hosted major expatriate communities in the other-. To promote the route, Latam Airlines Group carried out actions such as the exclusive sponsorship of the Brazilian Day Festival, an event that took place on September 6th at the Forum in Barcelona and Brazilian culture approached the Catalan public.

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The soccer final of the Copa del Rey , shoots the price of hotels in Barcelona

The average price per night per room in Barcelona hotels for this weekend is at 179 euros, 65% more than in 2014

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The price of the hotels in Barcelona has increased by 65% ​​for the celebration of the end of the Cup, to be played next Saturday, the 30th, at the Camp Nou, FC Barcelona and Athletic Club Bilbao, reports Atrápalo specialized in selling online entertainment company.

The average price per night per room in Barcelona hotels for this weekend is at 179 euros, 65% more than in 2014.
According to data recorded by the portal, the number of bookings for this Saturday has increased by 72% compared to the same period last year.

As regards travel to the Catalan capital, the number of requests by users of Catch 11th to May 24th registered an increase of over 48% over the period from 1st to May 10th.

Fans come to Barcelona mainly through El Prat airport and Sants train station.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Barcelona, ​​Atrápalo is an online platform dedicated to the promotion of leisure.
Tickets, hotels, travel, trains, trips or cruises are some of the products offered by this company, which has more than 8 million users and closed 2014 with a turnover of 315 million euros.

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Air China and Beijing will link Barcelona from next spring

Barcelona -. Airport Barcelona-El Prat will have its first direct connection to China next spring, a route that will operate by Air China, which will link Barcelona four times a week and Beijing. The director of the airport, Sonia Corrochano, said that the launch of this route is “a very important step forward”, as it will allow travelers to fly from Spain to China without having to change planes.

Forecasts of Air China is the only aircraft made a stopover in Vienna (Austria) to refuel, so the time scale at this airport will be minimal. “The company has announced that it will begin in May with four flights a week,” said Corrochano, has expressed his satisfaction with “having the first route to China”, after many years of work.

He recalled, in this regard, the Committee Air Route Development (CDRA), which integrate Aena, Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and the Chamber of Commerce of the city, “years working to improve communications with Asia “. In fact, the CDRA has held negotiations with various Chinese airlines to launch a direct link to Barcelona, given the high demand for nonstop connect Barcelona with the Asian.

Corrochano recalled, in this regard, that the negotiations with the airline Emirates for the launch of the Barcelona-Dubai route lasted over two years. Indeed, it was from this February when Emirates started operating this route to the world’s largest, with a capacity for 500 passengers Airbus 380.

” The arrival of the A380 with regular route is very important for the airport because it means that the intercontinental route which began operating in July 2012 is working well and justifies the increase of more than 44 % of the supply of seats ,” he said Corrochano .

The airport director has stressed that the expansion of the airfield, with the construction of the new terminal T1 and the third track, has allowed accommodate the arrival of the A380. “The infrastructure allows passengers to embark and disembark in 30 minutes and that the company can make its scale in less than 3 hours, so that comes out profitable and beneficial stint in Barcelona ,” stated Corrochano , which has ensured that the Barcelona Airport is ready to accommodate more frequency A380. “It’s the world’s biggest airplane and some airports are reluctant to start the operation ,” he pointed Corrochano , who considers it ” a success to have it safely and efficiently .”

Sonia Corrochano also highlighted the work of the Committee of the results Routes infrastructure harvested last year. “2013 was a record year, with 35.2 million passengers, some results showing the good work of the Committee of flights in times of crisis,” he remarked. The director of El Prat commented that last year the decline in the number of domestic passengers “was offset by the increase in flights to the European Union and especially intercontinental international flights.” “The good work has resulted even in times of crisis”, has been influential. Currently, the airport of El Prat operate a hundred companies, among which nine of the top ten airlines in the world.

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The giant A380 Emirates already flies between Barcelona and Dubai

The plane links from February 1st (2014) the Catalan capital with the emirate has 517 seats, 14 of which are suites and 76 private-bed seats

El Prat de Llobregat- . The airline Emirates has launched the first regular service in Spain Airbus A380 , the world’s largest aircraft, the daily route from Barcelona to Dubai, which will have a 44 % more seating capacity.

From February 1st-2014 , Emirates flies between Barcelona and Dubai with A380 , a plane has 517 seats, 14 of which are suites and 76 private – bed seats .

As reported by Emirates , the A380 replaces the B777 -300 , which operated to date, and provides more than 2,200 additional seats per week to Dubai route .

Emirates Vice President Commercial Operations for Europe , Thierry Aucoc , explained that the addition of the new aircraft “is the response to increased demand for air travel to and from Barcelona, a route that has a high occupancy rate .”

In July 2012 , Emirates launched the connection between Barcelona and Dubai , which last year carried more than 220,000 passengers and this year’s estimate is that 60,000 passengers have more , as stated by the director of the El Prat Airport , Sonia Corrochano .

The airport director has said the A380 ” demonstrates the potential of the city and the airport, which is working to grow internationally .”

For his part, Secretary of Transportation of the Generalitat, Ricard Font , said the good performance of connections with Asia El Prat airport and said that ” any company that is considering buying new planes are thinking about Barcelona as one of its primary destinations in Europe and as a bridge between Asia and America

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