{"id":3413,"date":"2019-05-12T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:51:40","slug":"more-international-stands-for-barcelona-el-prat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/more-international-stands-for-barcelona-el-prat\/","title":{"rendered":"More international stands for Barcelona-El Prat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Barcelona-El Prat Airport has seen an increase in the number of wide-body aircraft operations in recent years. To manage this growth, Aena considered it necessary to increase the number of aircraft stands and boarding gates to accommodate aircraft that require a passenger boarding bridge and larger stands.<\/p>\n

With the addition of two floors along the whole of the South Pier \u2013approximately symmetrical to the North Pier\u2013 and the installation of several pre-boarding bridges, the airport will be able to serve more large aircraft on international routes.<\/p>\n

Terminal T1 of Barcelona Airport has three boarding docks: the Longitudinal Pier, North Pier and South Pier. The Longitudinal Pier is generally used for Schengen flights, the North Pier for international flights (and also for the shuttle), and the South Pier for regional flights.<\/p>\n

With the Addition of two floors and the installation of passenger boarding bridges, the South Pier of El Prat\u2019s Terminal T1 will be able to serve greater\u00a0numbers of large aircraft on international routes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because of the different kinds of operations carried out in each one, the docks have different configurations: the Longitudinal Pier has a single level on floor P10, through which boarding and deplaning take place; the North Pier has three levels (P10 for domestic boarding and deplaning, P20 for international deplaning and P30 for international boarding); and the South Pier currently has a single level for boarding and deplaning.<\/p>\n

Along both the North and South Piers, there are a number of aircraft stands that are used for operations with large-capacity aircraft (type-E and F). Due to an increase in the number of operations with these aircraft at Barcelona-El Prat Airport, the number of aircraft stands and boarding gates that can accommodate these types of aircraft needs to be increased, since they require two and sometimes even three passenger boarding bridges (at different levels) at the same time, and larger stands on the apron.<\/p>\n

Aena will be undertaking two main infrastructure projects in the airport\u2019s Terminal T1: the first one involves reconfiguring the apron of the South Pier to create 9 type-C positions, 3 type-E and 2 type-F. The second consists of redesigning the South Pier to adapt it to the new operations, namely, arrivals and departures of international flights and accommodation of large-capacity aircraft.<\/p>\n