New Madrid Barajas Airport opens Feb 5, 2006

Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 opens Feb 5, 2006.

In the mid 90's saturation appeared in Madrid Barajas Airport . After
years of planning it was decided to expand Barajas instead of
constructing another airport at Campo Real . Expansion was considered
more convenient because Barajas it's very close to Madrid ( 10 Km ) ,
had more than enough terrains to expand , and it would be faster to
build.

The proyect was awarded to "Richard Rogers Partnership ( UK )"
www.richardrogers.co.uk , and "Estudio Lamela ( Madrid )"
www.lamela.com .

During the last years traffic at Madrid Barajas Airport reach the 42
Millions passengers in 2005 , on an airport ( Terminals 1,2,3)
designed for a Maximum of 25 Millions passengers . All that caused
delays, inconveniences , long transfer times , etc, deriving in bad
press for the Madrid Barajas Airport .

The new combined nominal capacity of the New Madrid Barajas ( Terminal
1,2,3,4,4-satellite ) is 70 Millions Passengers per year.

This expansion is designed with further expansions in mind . In fact
underground conections to anothers future satellite building have
already been constructed , bringing the future potencial capacity of
Barajas well above 100 millions passengers per year .

While old barajas used two crossed runaways , the new one have four
TOTALLY INDEPENDENT runaways, parallell "two to two" .This unique
design allows one landing every 30 seconds at the same time takeoffs
are taking place in the others 2 parallel runaways. Every runaway is
more than 1 Km apart from it's parallel.

Aerial Pictures:

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

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

This configuration allow the new Barajas to up to 120 Operations per
hour versus 53 in the past .This expansion makes Madrid Barajas the
european airport with the highest capacity in Europe .

New Barajas will be the 3th airport in Europe after Heathrow and
Frankfurt ( currently is 5th) .

2 new terminals opens : Terminal 4 and Terminal 4 Satellite .

Terminal 4-S satellite, can only be accessed and exit using Terminal
4, by means of an underground APM , Automatic People Mover , that
connects Terminal 4 and Terminal 4 Satellite . The APM is 2,1000 meters
long , 24 hours 7 days operative , 60 Km/hour, 3 minutes trayect time
,runs every 2 minutes , up to 20,000 passengers/hour in both directions
..

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)

Old T1,T2,T3:

198,000 square meter

3 adyacents terminals

37 JETBRIDGES

9,050 parking slots


New Car Parking AT T4 :

309,000 square meters

8,885 car parking position ( private + rental )

4,000 working staff parking slots


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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 (Concourses
T, A, B, C, D, and E) 530,000 sq meters


ALL ONEWORLD ALLIANCE MEMBERS will use T4,T4s , www.oneworld.com ,
that includes IBERIA , British Airways , American Airlines , Lan ,
Finnair , etc . , plus a number of airlines not linked to any alliance
, like Vueling . New Barajas becomes a Oneworld Hub.

Star Alliance members , www.star-alliance.com , and SkyTeam Alliance
members , www.skyteam.com , will remain in the old terminals T1,T2,T3
.. The old terminals will be reformed .

For information regarding Madrid Barajas Airport , plus all the other
Spanish Airports , check the AENA ( Spanish public body that owns and
runs all Spanish Airports ) english web site here :

http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?pa...ome&lang=EN_GB

At the TOP LEFT , in the "Choose Airport" drop list choose
"Madrid-Barajas" , press the side button with the arrow , and you will
be directed to AENA Madrid Barajas web site , with information
regarding airlines , live schedule, burocratics requisites , terminal
layout , etc .

Madrid Barajas is expected to become the GATEWAY between Europe and
Latin America . For that purpose the new terminals have been
specifically designed for the transit passenger, unlike the old ones
who suffered from long walks .

40 % Spanish domestic traffic , 35 % Europe ,15 % Latin America, 3 %
USA . .

Underground metro lines already connects the old terminals with central
Madrid in 15 minutes and 1 Euro . The construction of the extension of
the current underground line to the new terminal T4 is expected to
open in 1 year , meanwhile a free gratis bus every 2 minutes will
connect T4 with the metro station in Barajas town in 10 minutes
journeys, 3 minutes frecuency . Free inter-terminals buses also exist
..Another metro line , apart from the actual line to Nuevos Ministerios
, will connect T4 with Madrid from the north to Chamartin station .

In T4 you will see MODERNISM and FUNCTIONALISM ARQUITECTURE at it's
BEST.


"Camino del Gran Barajas" ( Walking toward the Great Barajas)

http://www.fomento.es/revistas/03marzo/Ma04_13.pdf

http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/D...31/En42_46.pdf

Richard Rogers Barajas Work:
http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/rende...,4,24,296,1035


Spanish Official Tourist Website with lots of info in english (also
german,french,italian,russian,japanesse)

www.spain.info

Airport Technology website with info on Barajas contractors

http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/madrid/

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/

"Parallel runways...."

Hm. Anything like the parallel runways at DEN, that was allegedly
going to allow (close to) simultaneous operations?

And only after it was built, did anyone notice the runways were
too close together....

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

All four are 60 meters wide , fast exits , A-380 ready , ILS CAT III

They are certificated to run TOTALLY INDEPENDENT operations according
to law .

The law allows 1 landing every 60 seconds on ONE RUNAWAY . If the
parallel runway it's at a sufficient distance ( they are ) it's allowed
a landing in the other parallel runaway 30 seconds spaced , that
means . land A ---- 30 seconds ----- land B ------ 30 seconds -------
land A ---- 30 seconds ---- land B ---- 30 seconds --- .

This allow a teorical MAX of 120 landings per hour . Take off are
TOTALLY independent because of the unique runaway design . The spacing
between take off depends more on the type/size of the previous plane ,
and other factors .

But because the airport limit it's measure as the MAXIMUN of landings ,
120 operations per hour it's the nominal peak . But in practical terms
, if needed , it could reach more than 200 operations /hours ( counting
Take Offs as well as landings ) .

The design was made by Black & Veatch , and US consulting agency .

http://www.bv.com/services/projects/...ort/madrid.asp


As far as i know , it's unique in the world , but it's expected to
deliver very high performance .