The madrid Barajas airport

The Madrid-Barajas Airport (IATA: MAD, ICAO LEMD), is located in the northeast of Madrid, 12 kilometers from downtown. He began his service in 1928 but was officially opened in 1931 and is currently managed by Spanish Airports and Air Navigation AENA.
It is the main airport in Spain and which has the greatest number of direct flights to Latin America from all European airports. The Madrid-Barcelona air route, known as "air bridge" and that has one end at Madrid-Barajas and the other in the Barcelona airport, which has the largest number of flights per week from around the world.
In 2007 traveled through the airport 52.1 million passengers, ranking in the tenth in the world and the fourth in Europe by number of passengers after Frankfurt, Charles de Gaulle (Paris) and Heathrow (London), thus overcoming the Schiphol (Amsterdam). Because it does not provide AENA disaggregated information from each of the airports that make up its network, it is not possible to establish precisely what is the contribution of the Barajas International Airport to total profit AENA. However, data provided by the AENA to a specific publication sector, indicates that, for example, in 1999, the end benefit the entire network was 208.14 million euros. The breakdown given, indicates that the amount contributed by Barajas was 92.75 million Euros (second, followed by El Prat Airport, Barcelona, with 48.82 million euros), which clearly indicates that AENA airport is the most benefits granted. The number of transactions is increasing, and it should be noted that already in 2007 unseated the Dutch airport as the fourth European airport in number of passengers is a large part of a national flights.
The airport consists of four terminals known as T1, T2, T3 and T4, as well as a satellite building at Terminal 4, is known as T4-S. The whole of T4 became operational on February 5, 2006, making the Madrid-Barajas Airport in the world's largest airport terminal area, with one million square metres (one square kilometre) distributed among T1, T2, T3, T4, T4-S and one hundred and four boarding bridges Direct