Car Hire Barcelona Airport

Barcelona Airport, commonly known as El Prat is both the 2nd busiest and 2nd largest in Spain and in 2019 handled over 50 million passengers. Opened in 1918 and a focal point for the Nation ever since, El Prat is a 2 terminal airport that ferries people all around the globe.

Despite the vast array of international destinations it caters for, the busiest route at the airport is Barcelona-Madrid which accounted for 2.5 million people in 2019. London Gatwick was third with 1.5 million people getting airborne. Vueling and Ryanair are the highest volume carriers with 20 million passengers traveling with the former and just under 8 million with the latter.

Covid-19 saw passenger numbers drop by an incredible 75% but this still meant 12 million people flew in or out of Barcelona Airport.

An investment package of 5.1billion Euros is in the offing and the addition of a satellite terminal looks to increase annual capacity to 70 million passengers.

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