Airports in Barcelona

Barcelona International Airport, BCN

Barcelona International Airport (IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL), known also as El Prat, is the main airport operating in Barcelona and Catalonia, located 10 kilometres from Barcelona, in El Prat de Llobregat It is also the largest airport in Catalonia and second largest in Spain (after the Barajas Airport in Madrid).

Barcelona International Airport is the main communication junction for Vueling Airlines and Clickair, as well as is most important airport for SpanAir, Air Europa and Iberia Airlines. The airport usually operates the national, european and northafrican flights, rarely the transatlantics ones.

Nowadays Barcelona Internationa Airport is beeing enlarged by another terminal. In 2007 El Prat served in total 32,898,249 passengers.

The best way to get to Barcelona International Airport is a short travel by train RENFE (line number R10), which leads from Estació de França. The main stops are Barcelona Sants and Passeig de Gracia, where is possible change for metro.



Girona Costa Brava Airport, GRO

Girona Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) is situated 12 kilometres south from Girona - a city in north-western part of Catalonia, and about 92 kilometres from Barcelona. This airport usually operates the cheap flights, which transport passengers to Barcelona and to other tourist destinations along the Costa Brava coast.

From Girona Costa Brava Airport to Barcelona is easy to get by train from the railway station located in the center of Girona, or directly from the airport - by buses and taxis.