Madrid Barajas new World's Biggest Airport

Madrid Barajas Airport is the World's Biggest Airport in terms of
Passenger Terminal area, with 940,000 square

meters ( more than 10 Millions square feets), after the opening of the
new Terminal 4 complex at Madrid Barajas .



Code sq meters sq. feets

MAD 940,000 10,118,035 Madrid T1-T4
ICN 655,206 7,052,550 Seoul Phase 1,2
LHR 600,000 6,458,320 London T1-T4
DEN 557,420 6,000,000 Denver
HKG 540,000 5,812,488 Hong Kong
ATL 613,404 5,700,000 Atlanta A,B,C,D,E,T
DFW 510,968 5,500,000 Dallas A,B,C,D,E
ORD 441,941 4,757,000 Chicago
LAX 355,731 3,829,052 Los Angeles
JFK 330,850 3,561,233 New York



Terminal 4:

470,261 square meters ( 5,061,847 square feets) TERMINAL AREA
6 Levels ( 3 underground )
1,142 meters long x 155 meters wide
154 check-in positions
20 automated check-in
19 baggage belts
39 JETBRIDGES
22 REMOTE STANDS

Terminal 4-S Satellite:

286,984 square meters TERMINAL AREA
6 Levels
927 meters long
26 JETBRIDGES ( A-380 Ready)

T1,T2,T3:

198,000 square meter
3 adyacents terminals
37 JETBRIDGES
9,050 parking slots

TOTAL 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 Aircraft Operations/hour
104 JETBRIDGES


The Madrid Barajas masterplan envision further terminals as needed . It
construction depends on the final decision

regarding a second airport for Madrid or continous to further
expanding Barajas, that is the most likely decision .

In 2006 Madrid Barajas has surpassed Amsterdamm Schiphol as 4rd busiest
european airport . EUROCONTROL forecast

Madrid Barajas will become the 3rd busiest european airport on it's
latest medium term european air traffic

forecast.
http://www.eurocontrol.int/corporate...ermforecast_fi

nal.pdf

When their expansions will complete, both Beijing PEK ( Terminal 3)
and london heathrow LHR ( T-5 ) , will match

Madrid Barajas MAD with around 1 Millions square meter each .


BARAJAS T-4 CONSTRUCTION

Madrid Barajas T4 construction started in 2000 , and only 6 years later
it was inagurated on February 5, 2006 , with

2 new runaways , new control tower, new access highways,etc

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

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

May 2003 , 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 , the access highway wasn't constructed yet .
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0584564/L/

2005 , COMPLETE.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0836552/L/ T-4 Satellite
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0755830/L/ Overall picture
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._overview1.JPG


TERMINAL INTERIORS

Boarding Gates
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._interior1.JPG
Boarding Gates
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._interior2.JPG
Entrance
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._interior7.jpg
Cross-Section
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._interior6.jpg
Exit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._interior5.JPG



Cockpit landing picture
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/316372/L/

3 Iberia Airbus 340 at T4-S
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1022713/L/




PASSENGER TRAFFIC EVOLUTION MADRID BARAJAS


1960 906,170

1970 4,158,212

1980 10,166,638

1990 16,037,585
1991 16,107,840
1992 18,069,004
1993 17,301,558
1994 18,416,510
1995 19,964,997
1996 21,865,051
1997 23,634,113
1998 25,506,395
1999 27,545,020

2000 32,829,182
2001 34,002,411
2002 33,915,302
2003 35,855,861
2004 38,718,614

2005 41,963,197

The traffic growth at Barajas has Always surpassed the most optimistics
figures . Because that the airport have

suffered from cronic terminal congestion because the failure to
correctly predict passenger numbers . In 2005 the

number of passengers grew a 8,4% , while in 2006 ,after the much
needed inaguration of T4, the passenger traffic

is growing enormously .

BARAJAS LINKS

http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/rende...Ds=1,6,12,1189
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Airport
http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?pa...O=0&lang=EN_GB


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DATA SOURCE

MADRID
T4 and T4S
http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/rende...IDs=1,4,24,296

Parking building at T4, of 309,000 square meters it's NOT included in
the 940,000 numbers.

T-1,T-2,T3
http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/D...31/En42_46.pdf
(Page 5, 198,000 "metros cuadrados" means "square meters" )



Atlanta
http://www.atlanta-airport.com/defau...o/factpage.htm

Chicago
http://www.ohare.com/MasterPlan/Sect...an%20-%202.pdf
(Page 5, 4,757,000 sq feet of actuall area . The other numbers are
propossed expansion numbers)

New York JFK
http://www.panynj.gov/aviation/jhisfram.htm

880 acre = 3,561,233 sq. meters

Denver

http://www.flydenver.com/guide/facility/passenger.asp

"The Jeppesen Terminal has more than 1.2 million square feet of space.
Including the three airside concourses,

there is more than 6 million square feet of public space at DIA.
Concourses A, B and C have a total of 93 gates. At

full build-out, DIA has room for two more concourses - facilities that
can serve 100 million passengers per year. "

Los Angeles LAX
http://www.lawa.org/lax/justTheFact.cfm
Area in the terminals total 3,829,052 square feet (355,860 square
meters).