The international airport of Barcelona “El Prat” is located in the city El Prat de Llobregat, in the province of Barcelona, Spain to 15 kilometers southwest of the center of the city of Barcelona and 3 kilometers from the port of Barcelona, between the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat, Viladecans and Sant Boi de Llobregat.
It has two passenger terminals (T1 and T2), a corporate terminal and an air cargo center. It is the first airport in extension and traffic in Catalonia and the second airport with the highest traffic in Spain behind the Madrid-Adolfo Suarez Airport. In the year 2002 it managed to be placed in the third position of the European ranking and in the first of Spain in terms of passengers of direct flights.
The airport was officially known until June 6, 2011 as Barcelona Airport, but after the request of the City Council of El Prat de Llobregat in 2008 to change the name of the infrastructure, it was studied the possible name change that has been made effective on June 18, 2011 in the official state bulletin.
As for the airlines that operate in the airport, one of the ones that carries the largest number of passengers is Vueling, operative in T1
Services and connections of the airport “El Prat”
Base for: Air Europa, EasyJet, Norwegian, Ryanair, Vueling
Public transport: Line 9 of Metro-T1 and T2
Trains: Rodalias RENFE R2
How to get from the Barcelona airport to the city center?
Depending on the arrival time you can take one transport or another. In principle, if you are going to rent a car or take a Taxi or wait for you at the airport, this is not your blog, since we will give you information about all the public transport options that you can use.
Schedule line 9 of the Metro
January December
Monday Thursday
05:00 – 00:00 midnight
Friday
05:00 – 02:00
Saturday
24 hours
Sunday
05:00 – 00:00 midnight
Public holiday
05:00 – 00:00 midnight
December 24
05:00 – 23:00
December 31
24 hours
RENFE AIRPORT OF BARCELONA
The entrance to the train station is located at T2B. If you arrive or leave from T1, you will not be able to walk to or from the train station. You need to take the free shuttle bus that connects the train station with the T1.
Train schedule Barcelona – Barcelona airport
From Barcelona Airport: The first train departs from the airport at 05:42 in the morning and the last departs at 23:38 at night.
From Sants Station: The first train leaves from Sants Station at 05:13 in the morning and the last train departs at 23:14 at night.
From Passeig de Gràcia: The first train leaves from Passeig de Gràcia at 05:08 in the morning and the last train leaves at 23:07 in the evening.
There are two available airport trains that run each hour from and to the airport.
Then you can find many combinations of urban, interurban and international transport services, we give them to you below:
Urban services:
46 Airport (T1 and T2) – Plaza España diurno
A1 Airport (T1) – Plaza Cataluña (aerobús) diurnal
A2 Airport (T2) – Plaza Cataluña (aerobús) diurnal
N16 Plaza Cataluña – Castelldefels (Bellamar) by Airport (T2) Nocturno
N17 Plaza Cataluña – Airport (T1) Nocturno
N17 Plaza Cataluña (Ronda Universitat) – Airport (T1 and T2) Night
L77 Moises Broggi Hospital (Sant Joan Despí) – Airport (T1 and T2) Day
L99 Plaza Station (Castelldefels) – Airport (T1) Day
PR1 El Prat de Llobregat (Renfe Station) – Airport (T1 and T2) Daytime
PR2 El Prat de Llobregat (Renfe Station) – Av. Del Remolar Diurno
PR3 El Prat de Llobregat (Renfe Station) – Av. Del Remolar Diurno
Intercity and international services:
Line Bus Company Service
Airport (T1) – Girona – Figueras – Alsa – Day
Airport (T1) – Lleida – Alsa – Day
Airport (T1) – Tarragona – Reus – Alsa – Day
Airport (T1) – Tarragona – Castellón – Valencia – Alicante – Murcia – Almería – Alsa – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – La Pineda – Salou – Cambrils – Reus – Flat Company – Day
Barcelona (Bellvitge) – Airport (T1) – El Vendrell – Mon-bus – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Girona – Figueres – Sagalés – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Calella – Blanes – Sagalés – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – University Area – Terrassa – Sarbus – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Barcelona – Costa Brava Center – Sarfa – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Barcelona – Lloret de Mar – Tossa de Mar – Sarfa – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Barcelona – North Costa Brava – Sarfa – Day
International Line
Bus – Company – Service
Airport (T2) – Aix-en-Provence – Flixbus – Night
Airport (T1 and T2) – Andorra la Vella – Andbus – Day
Airport (T1 and T2) – Andorra la Vella – Directbus – Day
Airport (T2) – Geneva – Flixbus – Night
Airport (T2) – Lyon – Flixbus – Both of them
Airport (T2) – Marseille – Flixbus – Night
Airport (T2) – Montpellier – Flixbus – Night
Airport (T2) – Nice (Airport T2) – Flixbus – Night
Airport (T2) – Perpignan – Flixbus – Night
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