Barcelona Airport (BCN)

Barcelona El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport (BCN) is located 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the Barcelona 6 metres above sea level, between the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat, Viladecans and Sant Boi.

The airport receives its current name in homage to a Catalan politician, although it is still known technically as Barcelona-El Prat Airport. It also receives other popular nicknames such as BCN airport or El Prat airport.

It’s Spain’s second biggest international airport, after Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas. It’s the largest in Catalonia and along the Mediterranean coast, and the seventh busiest in Europe. In 2025, over 57.4 million passengers passed through, with more than 360,000 flights. Air cargo topped 200,000 tons, up 10% from 2024.

The airport has 3 take-off and landing zones, thus obtaining 3 runways in service, two in parallel called 06L/24R and 06R/24L, and a cross, runway 02/20. Other technical data.

Barcelona airport has two passenger terminals, terminal T1 and terminal T2. Changes in the original operation of terminal T2 have made it possible for what used to be three different terminals: terminal T2A, terminal T2B and terminal T2C, to become a single terminal with three inter-connected sections.

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