page_title: Transport in Madrid
section_title: Air
hierarchical_section_title: Transport in Madrid / Long-distance transport / Air
caption_attribution_description: Barajas Airport in Madrid, was designed by Richard Rogers Partnership. Voir aussi l'album de l'exposition Richard Rogers + architectes au Centre G. Pompidou à Paris en 2007. www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/2114580137/ voir aussi la présentation du terminal T4 et T4S sur Mimoa www.mimoa.eu/projects/Spain/Madrid/Airport Barajas
context_page_description: Madrid is served by highly developed transport infrastructure. Road, rail and air links are vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid as a leading centre of employment, enterprise, trade and tourism, providing effective connections with not only other parts of the region, but also the rest of Spain and Europe as a whole. Three quarters of a million people commute into the city to work, and these and other local travellers have available a high-capacity metropolitan road network and a well-used public transport system based on the Metro, the Cercanías local railways, and a dense network of bus routes.
  In terms of longer-distance transport, Madrid is the central node of the system of autovías and of the high-speed rail network, which has brought major cities such as Seville and Barcelona within 2.5 hours travel time. Madrid is also home to the Madrid-Barajas Airport, the fourth largest airport in Europe. Madrid’s location at the centre of the peninsula makes it a major logistical base.
context_section_description: Madrid–Barajas Airport (Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas) is Spain's busiest airport, and is the main hub of Iberia Airlines. Important to the city's economy as the largest business in Madrid, estimated to generate 44,000 jobs directly and 210,000 indirectly, it serves as the main gateway to the Iberian peninsula from Europe, America and the rest of the world. In 2013 Barajas handled 39.74M passengers (down 20% from a peak of 49.87M in 2011), of whom 70% were international travellers, in addition to 343.62M tonnes of freight. The passenger volumes make it Spain's largest and busiest airport, and in the same year it was the world's 29th busiest airport and Europe's sixth busiest airport. Air freight movements through Barajas are 52% those of all Spain, and 83.4% of international air freight. A new fourth terminal has been constructed, which has significantly reduced delays and doubled the capacity of the airport to more than 70 million passengers per year. Two additional runways have also been constructed, making Barajas a fully operational four-runway airport that can handle 120 flights per hour.
  The airport is located within the city limits of Madrid, at 9 km (5.6 mi) from the city's financial district and 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's historic centre. It has good connections with the city centre by autovía, Cercanías and Metro. The airport name derives from the adjacent district of Barajas, which has its own metro station on the same rail line serving the airport.
  The closed Ciudad Real Central Airport was intended to be the second airport for the city, linked to it by high speed rail.
caption: Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (T4 Station)
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