Barcelona Airport Blog

• 20.04.2012 - Barcelona gets closer to Miami

  Since the 4 of april 2012, American Airlines does 5 weekly flights from Barcelona to Miami instead of 3. This change is part of the new agreement between American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia.
  The aircraft for this flight is a Boeing 767-300 with 221 seats, 30 of them in first class.
  Miami is the perfect destination for conection flights, because 47 flights to destinations in the USA leave from there, and even 58 flights to destinations in the caribbean and latin america.

• 22.03.2012 - Springtime in Barcelona

  As it seems, the bad weather and the cold are turning away, and spring is starting to look around in Barcelona. The warm jacket, the gloves and the scarf are not necessary anymore and there are a lot of different activities to do under the sun. Some walks through the various parc's, some "tapas" in the sun of the Barceloneta, a ride with the bike at the "paseo maritimo", take a boat for some hours and enjoy the sea, a barbecue in the Collserola parc, or simply lay down at the beach and start to get taned.... Barcelona is a beautiful city, and in the sun, it's even shining brighter.

• 08.02.2012 - Madonna returns to Barcelona

  The queen of pop will come back to Barcelona the 20 of june 2012. It will be the only concert in Spain of her new world tour , which starts the 29 of may in Tel-Aviv. Tickets will be on sale up from the 16 of february and they will be for sure sold out in a few days or even hours.
  Madonna was the star of the last US Superbowl and the audience could get some impressions of what her new Madonna World Tour 2012 will be. The party is garanteed for all the lucky ones who will get a ticket.

• 26.01.2012 - Guano Apes in Barcelona

  After nearly 9 years nearly disappeared from the stages, the german band Guano Apes has a new album out and they are touring Europe. The 23/01 the shook the walls of the legendary Apolo in Barcelona. A selection of new songs and old hits from the 90's made the fans jump and sweat. The charismatic singer Sandra Nasic seems to be like the good wines, she looks better with the years. Also the other band members have still the same energy. It absolutely does not look like they have been away from the stages since 9 years.

• 21.12.2011 - Barcelona, a reference for tourism

  It's well known, that Barcelona is one of the most popular touristic destinations. For europeans and also more and more for US citizens. The official number for 2011 is 7.45 millions of tourists who passed through Barcelona. An absolut record in the history of the city. Talking about more numbers, this means a 78.3% of hotel occupation. It's very good to see, that beeing still in the middle of the financial crisis, at least the touristic area is working .
  We will see what the new year is going to bring...

• 07.12.2011 - Christmas concerts at the "Fonts Mágiques de Montjuïc"

  From the 2 of december and until the 7 of january 2012, you can enjoy the spectacular light, water and music show of the "Fonts Mágiques de Montjuïc". It's one of Barcelona's top tourist attraction. At the lower part of the Montjuïc mountain, old and young are always amazed when looking at the beautiful play of this impressive event. For the Christmas time, the music playing are some of the most popular Christmas song's in Katalonia. A very special sight, you MUST have seen when beeing in Barcelona.

• 13.11.2011 - New BMW X4

  Offroader belong to the past. The future are four wheel drive cars, high but sporty and compact.
  To link to the success of the BMW X6, the german's will soon send out the X4.
  A three door car with agressive look, robust but at the same time very sporty.
  There's nothing official about the engine's yet, but the bavarian's want to keep at the same position the competitor's are.

• 22.10.2011 - ETA drops the weapons

  Finally the day arrived, all spanish people where waiting for 50years.
  The terrorist organisation ETA has officially announced the dropping of their weapons. It have been a lot of years, Euskadi had to live with the dark shadow of indiscriminated and covard killing. Nearly 900 persons where murdered for an ideal that was totally absurd. Hopefully this will be really the end and things like this will never happen again. At least in Spain.
  All Spain is extremely happy, but nobody will forget the victims and their families.

• 08.10.2011 - I Phone 4s

  After long weeks of waiting, speculations and lots of things written about it, it's finally here. The I Phone 4s. A lot of people where expecting more. Also a totally new version of the star product from Cupertino, because, to be honest, the only thing Apple has done is to set the things as the concurrence already has done with their products.
  Nothing new, nothing innovative, nothing spectacular. Although, the demand and the status of the I Phone are still increasing.
  At least, the new phone has a double processor, a better camera and a version with 64GB capacity.
  It's the new episode in the brilliant history of this telephone, created by the genius Steve Jobs, who recently died. Rest in peace Steve.....

• 14.09.2011 - Probably the fastest Mercedes

  At this year's IAA in Frankfurt, the luxury tuner BRABUS, has just presented the latest creation.
  A speed devil with 800 horsepowers and a top speed of 370km/h.
  Based on the Mercedes CLS, th¡s insane car has a 6.3 liters engine and a specially developed double turbo.
  From 0km/h to 100km/h he only needs 3.7 seconds, and to catch the 300km/h only 23seconds.
  Anybody who is able to pay the 429.000EUR will be dilighted by the pleasure of driving this car.

• 16.08.2011 - Festes de Gracia 2011

  As every year in the middle of august, the annual "Festes de Gracia" have just started.
  During a whole week, one of Barcelona's most popular and alternative district is a big party.
  The streets are traditionally decorated by the people who live there, and at the end, the most beautiful wins also a price.
  There are lot's of free concerts, activities for old and young, and beer or mojito drinking every night until early in the morning.
  There are for example free "salsa dancing" workshops, "castellers" the human towers, different beer tasting places, hughe barbecues on the street, "correfocs" (wild firework parades) and many other things.
  It is a must, to at least, stop by for a look and for shure you will be surprised by this popular event.

• 05.08.2011 - VW Passat will get a offroader

  As already happened with the CrossPolo and the CrossGolf, VW will make a full offroad version of the Passat.
  The CrossPassat will appear in 2012 and for sure is going be a success.
  With it's 20cm higher than the normal Passat and full four wheel traction, he is indeed ready for a off road experience.
  There will be two engine options, the 2.0-liter TDI and the powerful 3.6-liter-V6 petrol engine with 300 horse powers.
  A price is still not known jet, but for sure it will be a lot of fun driving this car.

• 09.07.2011 - Be aware of the risks in Barcelona

  As every year in the summertime, a high number of tourists come to visit Barcelona. Although they might have heard of the sad fact that thieves are "making their job" in public places, it is to be
  reminded, that everybody should be very aware of his personal belongings.
  The metro, the airport, the trains, the city centre itself.... All these places with a high number of people are their
  "playground". To avoid returning at home with a bad taste from the holidays, it is recommended to be very careful. They need only a few seconds, and you sometimes might even not notice the fact that
  the wallet is not in your pocket anymore. If you keep this in mind, and take care of some basic preventive methods, your holidays probably will not end up at the police station.....

• 27.06.2011 - Sebastian Vettel wins again!

  It is his sixt won race out of eight races done this year.
  If nothing changes, he will keep his huge advantage against the other driver's and maybe win again this year's championship.
  Do we have found the next Schumacher...? At least the true Schumi should think about his horrible comeback to F1.....

• 22.06.2011 - Summer Festivals

  As every year, the summer season is well known for the huge number of festivals taking place all over Europe.
  Also Spain has some of the most visited ones, as for example, the already concluded Primavera Sound or Sonar in Barcelona, or the S.O.S. in Murcia.
  The next big events will be the Monegros Desert Festival in Huesca and of course the Benicassim Festival. Also the BBk in Bilbao and the Cruïlla in Barcelona.
  So there are still enough chances to make a trip to Spain and enjoy good music, good weather and nice locations.

• 18.05.2011 - Tragical weekend in Moto GP

  This sunday, at the Le Mans race of Moto GP, again Dani Pedrosa got seriously injured. At 10 rounds for the end of the race, and beeing in third position, the catalan driver got thrown of his bike by the italian driver Marco Simoncelli.
  It was in a heavy overtaking manouver, in which Simoncelli was again too agressive, as during the whole weekend, a thing that was complained by most of the drivers.
  Now, Pedrosa has a broken shoulder. Hopefully he will recover until the next race, in three weeks in Montmeló, but again, he had very very bad luck.
  All the best to Pedrosa!

• 08.05.2011 - Good bye Seve!

  After a long fight against cancer, the spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros died yesterday surrounded by his family.
  It was a long struggle during more than two years and severeal operations, and although it was obvious that he was very ill, he never lost his smile and his will to fight and captivated everybody with his sympathy and his warm character.
  Wherever he might be right now, we hope that there will be a big golf court, so he can continue with his passion...
  Good bye Seve!!

• 21.04.2011 - First big match won by Madrid

  Today, Real Madrid won the "Copa del Rey", with a 1-0 against Barça. Although the catalans played much better football and Madrid seemed be more interested in fighting than in playing as well good quality football.
  So, "the first round" goes to Real Madrid.
  Hopfully Barça wakes up for the Liga and also the Championsleague, because today we can not say, that the best have won.

• 11.04.2011 - Sebastian Vettel strikes again

  The second F1 race of this season was again won by the german champion of last year. The extremly hot weather conditions in Malaysia could not disturb Sebastian Vettel and his strategy, giving him a comfortable and well deserved first place, followed by Jenson Button and Nick Heidfeld. It sems to be that Sebastian and his team, Red Bull, have their "homewrok" well done through the winter and they are showing now that at the moment they seem to be unbeatable.
  But there is no time to realax, as there is still a lot of season to race.....

• 05.04.2011 - Justin Bieber in Barcelona

  The teen superstar Justin Bieber is going to give a concert in Barcelona.
  On the 6 of april, he will drive crazy thousands of screaming teenage girls at the Palau Sant Jordi.
  It will be the
  first time that this young mass-moving internet phenomenon will be here in Barcelona.
  Of course the tickets are nearly sold out since days, but for sure it won't have been the last time.

• 13.03.2011 - Kylie Minouge in Barcelona

  Finally the australian pop Queen landed in Barcelona to rock the Palau Sant Jordi with the musical repertoir of her "Aphrodite tour".
  Taking the audience into the world of greek mythology, Kylie was
  surrounded by a big number of musicians and greek dancers, and left more than one mouth wide open with the whole show.
  Nothing is left from her bad cancer suffering and with obvious pleasure and
  strongness, she sang her greatest hits starting with "Can't get you out of my head" and ending with "How does it feel..."
  Over 15.000 people watched the tiny "godess" performing for the first time
  in Barcelona.
  Hopfully it won't be the last time. LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!

• 02.03.2011 - New speed limit 110km/h

  Due to the complicated situation in Libya and the whole arabian world, the petrol prices are continuosly increasing.
  Now the spanish government has decided to reduce again the top speed. Not to 80km/h like before, but to 110km/h, to save, as they say, a lot of money to all the drivers.
  All these changes are extremly confusing and it is quiet obvius that the "saving" will not be that important as they try to make us believe. The only one who will really take benefit of this is the own government, due to a higher number of speed tickets.

• 22.02.2011 - We can drive faster

  The new catalan government of president Artur Mas, started to make true their biggest promise:
  to change again the top speed on the highways from 80km/h to 100km/h or even 120km/h.
  The former
  government of now ex-president Montilla, reduced the top speed to 80km/h on all highways close to Barcelona, to "improve" ambiental conditions. But it was nearly ridiculous to drive also during low
  traffic conditions, at a top speed like that, and several studies took proof, that the ambiental conditions did also not change that much.
  So we can now drive again at a more logical top speed on
  every highway and congratulate mister Mas, to be so efficient with one of his promises. We will see if the rest of them will also turn into a real fact so quickly......

• 15.01.2011 - Shakira settles down in Barcelona

  The columbian singer has rented a high luxury house in Bellaterra, next to Barcelona, and has declared it as "basecamp". In frequent ocasions, she already expressed her love for the Ciudad Condal and also her last video was shot in this city.
  Since a few days ago there are several rumors also, about a possible relationship between her and Barça's player Gerard Piqué....Time will tell if her stay here is only temporary or if it will be more than just a simple "flirt".
  For the moment she is spending some days with her family in Baqueira to enjoy the snow there.

• 12.10.2010 - Toni Elias and Jorge Lorenzo world champions

  The two spanish motorbike driver's have both won the world championship this sunday, each of them in it's own category. Jorge is the second spanish driver, after Alex Criville, who wins in the Moto Gp class. It is also his first achieved championship since he came from 250. Toni Elias is the first driver who wins the Moto 2 series, which just started this year, eliminating the 250 category. Both have done a great job the whole season. It is to mention that the championship is not finished yet, there are still three races left, but they already have finished their jobs. Congratulations to both driver's for giving us such a great season.

• 20.09.2010 - Michael Bublé in Barcelona

  The new star of modern swing comes to visit our country to promote hi's new album "Crazy Love". It will be the 30 of october at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Bublé surprises again with 13 new songs, talking about the dificulties and the constant up's and down's of sentimental relationships. It's a must for all of those who love this "crooner" of the 21st century.

• 18.08.2010 - Enjoy Barcelona in august!

  We are in the middle of august and, as every year, it is the best month to enjoy this wonderful city. Nearly everybody of the locals left, because of their holidays. As consequence, Barcelona is very empty of cars and people, and it is a strange but good atmosphere. Most of the shops are also closed, you can easily find parking places, there are no traffic jams at all, and it is some kind of a "new" Barcelona which appears in this time of the year. Discover the quiet side of Barcelona!

• 14.07.2010 - Spain is world champion!

  The best have won!! After a extremely rough match from the dutch, Spain is new world champion for the first time in their history. Congratulations for this big efford and enjoy it very much! It was a great pleasure to watch for nearly a month the great exhibitions every country offered us. We all are looking forward to see the next championship.

• 08.07.2010 -

  Yesterday, after a breathtaking match, Spain wrote football history. For the first time Spain gets classified for a final match in the football world cup. Germany simply had no chance against the spanish players who showed a incredible quality in their play and simply were unstoppable. The few times Germany could get near to Iker Casillas, they simply did not use their chance and the spanish acted like a big wall. It was finally FC Barcelona player Carles Puyol, who served the 0-1 with an incredible head goal and after that, everything was done. Although Germany has showed an incredible play these last weeks, the spanish guys yesterday simply were superior.