Spanish Airport Guide News

Ryanair is to open its 42nd base at Barcelona El Prat in September with five 737-800s and 20 new routes covering domestic and international destinations.

It already has five bases in Spain at Alicante, Girona, Madrid, Malaga (opening later this month) and Reus. The new Barcelona Airport base represents an investment of more than $350 million. Ryanair will operate 270 weekly flights to/from Barcelona El Prat in total.

The new routes include twice daily flights to Malaga, Palma and Seville:  11 times a week to Santiago de la Compostela: daily to Brussels Charleroi, Dublin, Ibiza, Bergamo, Paris Beauvais, Rome Ciampino, Santander and Valencia: six times weekly to Treviso: four times weekly to Dusseldorf Weeze: three times a week to Cagliari, Edinburgh, Oslo Rygge and Lanzarote and a twice a week to Tenerife.

The Spanish airline Vueling has announced that it will operate flights between Barcelona El Prat Airport and Edinburgh in Scotland during the summer months. Flights will depart from the Scottish capital to Barcelona at 13:50  every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

The carrier also operates  flights from  Bilbao Airport and La Coruna andwill be providing the service between June 24th and September 12th.

From May 21st throughout the summer, Spanair will also be running five flights a week from  Barcelona to Edinburgh Airport which has been without a connection to the city since Flyglobespan collapsed at the end of 2009.

Sky Work Airlines is launching a new direct flight between Barcelona Airport and Berne in Switzerland starting on 30th March.

Flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from Terminal 2 departing from Barcelona at 18:45 and arriving in Berne at 20:15. The return flights are on the same days and leave Switzerland at 13:30 arriving in Spain 15:00.

There are seven VIP/business lounges at Barcelona Airport with the new Terminal 1 housing three of them.  All of the comfortable lounges are well equipped with modern technology and offer a wide range of services including meeting rooms, computers, Internet, wellness, relaxation room, showers, billiards, a golf simulator and hairdressing salon.

You can use these lounges if you hold a BCN VIP PASS cards. Passengers who are not flying in business class can use the VIP lounges on payment of €25.00

The three lounges in Terminal 1 are all managed by Aena and situated on the second floor as follows:

• Colomer VIP Lounge situated at the Barcelona-Madrid Shuttle
• Joan Miró VIP Lounge for passengers travelling to Non European Union Countries. It is divided into work and rest areas and offers a restaurant service, meeting rooms, showers and bath, hairdressers and a leisure area with golf simulator, billiards and video games.
• Pau Casals VIP Lounge is for passengers travelling to European Union countries. Again it is divided into work and rest areas and offers a restaurant service, meeting rooms, showers and bath, hairdresser’s and a leisure area with golf simulator, billiards and video games.

There are three more VIP lounges in Terminal 2B on the first floor:

• Canudas VIP Lounge (Aena)
• Gaudí VIP Lounge (Iberia)
• Spanair VIP Lounge

And finally there is one lounge in Terminal 2A on the first floor:

• Salvador Dalí VIP Lounge (Aena)

You can find out more information and make a reservation for the above lounges at www.bcn-viplounge.com