Madrid Barajas Airport MAD become 4rd busiest airport in Europe
surpassing Schiphol Amsterdam airport , even before new MAD T4 opened.

January 2006


MAD Barajas......3, 124,219......+8.5 %


AMS Schiphol.....3, 031,700....+2.3%


MAD figures : http://www.aena.es/csee/ccurl/Estadis%20enero%2006.pdf


AMS figures : http://www.schipholgroup.com/ Press Release of 13-02


Aerial Pictures of new Madrid Barajas inagurated Feb 5 , 2006


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/991042/L/


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/836552/L/


Impresive INTERIOR pictures of new Terminal 4:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=319038


In around 3 years it's expected MAD will surpass FRA frankfurt airport
as 3rd busiest , once the new capacity suplyed by MAD T4 enters into
full use.


Statistics for 2005


Airport..........Passengers.....% Over 2004


LHR..........67,683,341..........0.9 % CONGESTED
CDG..........53,800,000..........5.0 %
FRA..........52,219,412..........2.2 % CONGESTED
AMS..........44,200,000..........3.8 %
MAD..........41,963,197..........8.4 % COLLAPSED until Feb 5, 2006

According to Eurostat ( European Union Statistical Office ) Spain
ranked as 3rd country in Europe regarding air passanger numbers only
exceed by the UK and almost as much as Germany ( despite been Geramany
twice in Population ,and have higher gdp per capita ) . Spain easily
surpass France and Italy .


Eurostat Document here :
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NZ-06-002/EN/KS-NZ-06-002-EN.PDF

Table 1 , describes air passenger numbers by country .


1 ---- UK------------ 192 , 307,000
2 ---- GERMANY------- 135, 850,000
3 ---- SPAIN--------- 129, 791,000
4 ---- FRANCE-------- 102, 432,000
5 ---- ITALY--------- 81, 630,000
6 ---- HOLLAND------- 44,494,000


Table 5 , describes country to country flows in 2004


1) SPAIN - UK-----------33, 586, 000
2) SPAIN - GERMANY-----19,309,000
3) UK - FRANCE----------11,115,000

AENA Spanish Airport public entity controling almost all the Spanish
Airports and Air Navigation have just published 2005 statistics .


Arrivals + Departures


TOTAL PASSANGERS 2005 ........ 181, 065, 860
Increase over 2004 .............................. 9 %


Movements 2005 .................. 2, 193, 873
Increase over 2004 .......................... 6,7 %


AIRPORT ...............................PASSENGERS


MADRID ............................... 41, 963, 197
BARCELONA .......................... 27, 131, 448
MALLORCA ............................ 21, 242, 295
MALAGA .............................. 12, 669, 187
CANARIA ............................... 9, 827, 151
ALICANTE .............................. 8, 796, 321
TENERIFE SUR ......................... 8, 631, 776


Full statistics airport by airport of 2005
http://www14.aena.es/csee/ccurl/PROD200512.pdf
(Page 1-3 December , Page 4-6 Full 2005 Year )

AENA Web Site in English
http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?pagename=Home&lang=EN_GB

2004 FULL YEAR REPORT in english ( very interesting )
http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1128593337919&pagename=Aena%2FPage%2FAena&SMO=1&SiteName=Aena&Section=1&c=Page&MO=2&lang=EN_GB

HISTORICAL ANNUAL PASSENGERS NUMBERS IN SPAIN


2002 ................................. 143, 092, 996
2003 ................................. 153, 826, 342
2004 ................................. 166, 146, 198
2005 ................................. 181, 065, 860


Madrid Barajas T4 construction


Construction works started in 2000 , and only 6 years later you have a


complete new airport with 3 new runaways up and running !!!


July 2001 , a LOT to be done !!!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0316074/L/


May 2002 , see how close is to Madrid capital
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0235920/L/


May 2003 , IMPRESIVE , by now it's the BIGGEST construction site on
Europe .
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0364878/L/


September 2003 , INMENSE construcction site .
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0557500/L/


May 2004 ( you can see how the access highway wasn't constructed yet )


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0584564/L/


October 2005 , FINAL
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0991042/L/


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0369151/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/987148/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/706302/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/364878/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/316372/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/039949/L/

15L-33R and 15R-33L are separated by 1,9000 meters (1,18 miles ) from
runaway axis to axis .


18R-36L 14268 ft - 4350 meters long . LONGEST COMERCIAL RUNAWAY IN
EUROPE .
18L-36R 12136 ft - 3700 meters
15-33 13448 ft - 4100 meters


"Camino del Gran Barajas" ( Walking toward the Great Barajas)
http://www.fomento.es/revistas/03marzo/Ma04_13.pdf

http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/DAE67FE2-AA20-4AC8-97A8-52B7EEDCAEDA/16531/En42_46.pdf

Arquitect's Website

http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,4,24,296,1035
http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,6,12,1189


First Flight (photos)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=314497&page=1&pp=20


Slideshow ( 3 seconds interval) of internal new MAD Terminal 4
http://photobucket.com/albums/a322/zooom9999/?action=view&slideshow=true

(Last photos are of 4 skyscrapers of 60 floors each under construction
called "Madrid Arena")

Landing at MAD (Video) Must accept copyright conditions , then "Save
as... " .
http://www.flightlevel350.com/download.php?id=5006

NEW BARAJAS ( T1,T2,T3,T4,T4S):
940,000 square meters (10 Million sq feets) TERMINAL AREA
18,000 Passengers/hour
70 Millions passengers year Nominal capacity .
120 Operations/hour
104 JETBRIDGES
21, 800 parking slots


By comparison London Heathrow 360,000 sq meters , Atlanta (Terminal
Area plus Concourses T, A, B, C, D, and E) 530,000 sq meters

MAD it's biggest Terminal Area in the world.

In Brazil, according to Infraero (our "AENA"), about 96 million people passed through our airports, and according to the data that you have just provided, we have also surpassed Italy and Holland. São Paulo, that is the most crowded air space in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, had 33 million passengers passing through its two airports. Works are going to begin (I think this year) to expand this air space from the 33 million figure to 45 million in 5-6 years, and in 15 years Infraero thinks that this figure is going to be expanded to something about 100 million, with the Campinas Airport being expanded (Campinas is 90 km away from São Paulo, and in a few years will be linked by a 10 lane motorway system - that already exists - and a High Speed Rail Service). Infraero thinks that in 2006 we will surely surpass 100 million passengers through our aiports, speccially because we grew 16 % from 2004 to 2005. Brazilian Airports are some of the most modern in the world, you can see that on Infraero´s website: www.infraero.gov.br

MAD had got more passengers than AMS in January 2006, but there are still 11 more months to count this year, so we cannot know it until January 2007, when statistics will be published.
;)

Great notice for madrid. I hope that Barajas become the door of latin america in europe. :happy:

In Brazil, according to Infraero (our "AENA"), about 96 million people passed through our airports, and according to the data that you have just provided, we have also surpassed Italy and Holland. São Paulo, that is the most crowded air space in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, had 33 million passengers passing through its two airports. Works are going to begin (I think this year) to expand this air space from the 33 million figure to 45 million in 5-6 years, and in 15 years Infraero thinks that this figure is going to be expanded to something about 100 million, with the Campinas Airport being expanded (Campinas is 90 km away from São Paulo, and in a few years will be linked by a 10 lane motorway system - that already exists - and a High Speed Rail Service). Infraero thinks that in 2006 we will surely surpass 100 million passengers through our aiports, speccially because we grew 16 % from 2004 to 2005. Brazilian Airports are some of the most modern in the world, you can see that on Infraero´s website: www.infraero.gov.br


wow, good for SP!

I don't want to rain on your party on your figures about air passenger numbers by country , but if Spain would have our NW European climate things would be a whole lot different.
And if you like to compare passenger numbers in function of population, Madrid should have 160 000 000 passengers compared to Amsterdam.
I would like to see some data about Spanish passengers and compare them with other European countries. Or the rate of business flights.

^^ False, spanish domestic flights are europe's busiest, and the Madrid Barcelona connection is the WORLD busiest, by number of flights per day.

This might sound shocking to northern europeans but Spain has non turistic companies too, and summertime is only 3 months a year. The rest of the time, we also work! ^_^

I don't want to rain on your party on your figures about air passenger numbers by country , but if Spain would have our NW European climate things would be a whole lot different.
And if you like to compare passenger numbers in function of population, Madrid should have 160 000 000 passengers compared to Amsterdam.
I would like to see some data about Spanish passengers and compare them with other European countries. Or the rate of business flights.
What's the point of this?

This is more applicable to cities like Barcelona, Malaga, Mallorca, etc. Madrid is in the middle of a plateau 400 km away from the closest coasts. :crazy:

Madrid is the engine of Europe's fifth largest economy. I think this has more to do with it.

And what airport anywhere in the world has 160.000.000 passengers? :crazy: What city even has that many people flying in? Metropolitan areas with triple or quadruple the number of people of Madrid (such as London, or New York) have on the order of 100-130 million flying to and from these cities. :weird:

The Paris metropolitan area, a lot soggier than most parts of Spain, "only" supports something on the order of 50-60 million passengers for year, and this metropolitan area is nearly double that of Madrid.

And if you like to compare passenger numbers in function of population, Madrid should have 160 000 000 passengers compared to Amsterdam.

Schiphol is the airport for the whole of the Netherlands, not just Amsterdam.
And Madrid is not a touristic destination, not many charters go to Madrid, probably less than charters leaving from Holland to touristic destinations.

MAD had got more passengers than AMS in January 2006, but there are still 11 more months to count this year, so we cannot know it until January 2007, when statistics will be published.
;)

But you can count the amount of pax in the last 12 months, so every month we will be able to know if MAD have surpassed AMS in pax per year (last 12 months).

Rolling 12 month pax statistics probably will show this before the end of the year.

Great notice for madrid. I hope that Barajas become the door of latin america in europe. :happy:

In fact, Madrid IS the GATEWAY to Europe from Latin America. Most of flights that depart from Latin American cities go to Madrid (Barajas Airport). For example: Iberia, Air Europa and Santa Barbara Airlines have a daily flight Caracas-Madrid; Iberia and Avianca have a daily flight Bogotá-Madrid; Iberia and Aerolíneas Argentinas have a daily flight Buenos Aires-Madrid... and so on.

Iberia flies all Latin American capitals and main cities. The list of Latin American airlines that fly to Madrid is the following: Aerolíneas Argentinas, AeroMexico, LAN, Santa Barbara Airlines, LAB, Avianca and Varig. Air Europa and Air Madrid also fly to some Latin American cities.

Of course there are other European airlines and Latin American airlines flying from/to Latin America to/from the rest of Europe, but those flights are minimun compared with flights to Madrid. After Madrid, Paris would be the second gateway to Europe from Latin America.

There are 5 daily flights MAD-BUE and AeroMexico route number 1 (AM1) connects MEX and MAD.

Great news for Madrid