- Address: 29042 Madrid, Spain
- Phone: +34 902 404 704
- Website: www.aena.es
- E-mail: mad.clientesmad@aena.es
- Coordinates of Madrid airport: 40 ° 28 'N; 3 ° 34'W
The airport is the visiting card of any city, and Madrid Barajas airport in this case represents the whole of Spain. For 87 years it has become the largest airport in the country and by today has become the main international airport of Madrid. It connects the countries of Europe with the Canary Islands and South America, serving about 45 million passengers annually.
Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas (the full name of Madrid airport) is about 12 km from Madrid to the northeast and consists of four terminals: T1, T2, T3, T4 (T4 and T4s). From one terminal to another you can get by using a free green bus, but T4 and T4s (international) are also connected by an underground automatic electric train. If you first came to Madrid Barajas airport, it is recommended to use its detailed scheme.
All that you can be useful
The international airport, like a small town, has almost everything for a full-fledged life of airmen:
- about a hundred shops of different levels, incl. Duty Free ;
- a lot of restaurants and budget food outlets, some have Wi-Fi;
- first aid stations, a medical center and pharmacies;
- currency exchange offices, ATMs, bank branches;
- children's playrooms;
- at the airport in Madrid there is a luggage room and a search for lost luggage;
- indoor and outdoor car parks, express parking;
- at the airport there is a rental car, as in Madrid itself;
- telegraph, post office;
- security Service;
- Tax Free service (at purchase from € 90,15);
- 22 information racks for assistance to passengers.
How do I get to the center of Madrid from the airport?
Get from the airport to the city of Madrid and back, you can:
- convenient and budget option - yellow express bus number 200, daily flights every 15 minutes, night - every half hour. He travels around all the terminals of the Madrid airport and takes you to the Atocha railway station. Tickets are on sale for the driver;
- on the passing bus of the city route №№ 201, 204, 827, 828;
- on metro 8 lines from any terminal, and, terminal T4s of Barajas Madrid airport - the terminal line stop, do not miss. The subway operates from 6 am to 1:30 am;
- on the suburban train line No. C1, which runs from Terminal T4 to Atocha railway station. The last train is at 0:15 Nights;
- on an official taxi (white with a red stripe), which awaits you at special stops near T1, T2 and T4;
- you can pre-book a transfer from the Madrid airport to the city center. In this case, the driver will meet you at the customs area and comfortably drive to the right place.
Important points in the end
Despite the scale of the Bajaras airport in Madrid, landing control is carried out using a metal detector and physically. This adds nervousness to many passengers, forms large daytime queues, so, come with a time reserve of about an hour. And remember, as everywhere in the airport of Barajas you can additionally pack your luggage, if you did not manage to do it yourself.
If you're lucky enough to sit in the Wi-Fi zone, you can track your flight in real time via the airport's airport placards. Standard information boards in excess are equipped with all airport terminals. Be attentive, since more than a hundred flights and directions cross the airport of Madrid Barajas.
If you travel by transit through Spain, then during the transfer you can stay in the special transit zone of Madrid airport within 24 hours, visa processing is not required for this. But in this case you can not get beyond the terminal T4. Alas, you can not use the transit zone if you need to transfer luggage from one flight to another.
Knowing that more than 3.2 million people live in the Spanish capital, and planning a trip for the first time, you are probably thinking about how many airports in Madrid for the convenience of choosing a flight. Your way in any case lies in Barajas airport, but apart from it there are:
- old airport-museum Cuatro Vientos Airport, which is located within the city. An interesting place, it collected about 150 models of different aircraft of different eras, in addition, there are trained amateurs in small sports models;
- commercial airport Madrid-Torrej n Airport, which serves private flights and the Air Force of the Kingdom. Also he can take any board, in
in case of extraordinary situations. But even in this case, tourists can get from this Madrid airport by metro to the city center or any other point of it.
Interesting Facts:
- in March 2014 the airport was given the name of the first prime minister Adolph Suarez;
- Terminal T4 (4 and 4s) - the largest in the world, its area is 760000 sq m;
- The first flight to Barcelona and the first regular flight belongs to Lineas Aéreas Postales Españolas (LAPE).