I think its a sad day for the UK Aviation Industry. The last thing we are actually world class at in aviation and we sell it to some second rate European nation.

Uh, as far as I understand Ferrovial is not a country, but a corporation. Anyway, it hurts to be considered “some second rate European nation” :confused: I´m proud of my country and I don´t see it as a second rate european nation nor as a super power. I don´t have problems with Vodafone having a big presence here in Spain, so I can´t see the problem with a spanish corp purchasing BAA stocks.

No way, Principe de Asturias is more beatiful… :diablo:

If you continue making Harry Potter movies thousands of people from around the globe will keep trying to get to your country in order to check is the UK has a school of sorcery.

As far as I know Iberia is going to use the new terminal, as all the airlines in oneworld alliance will do. The terminal is opening on February 5th, just one day before you arrival, I think it will be fully operational by the 9th of Feb so your flight to Argentina will begin from there.

I don´t know about Easyjet, just a guess, they are not going to use the new terminal.

The new terminal is almost entirely reserved for oneworld alliance, which in Madrid means a lot of Iberia around T4.

BTW, departing from T4, taxying is much shorter than from the old terminals because the common runway configuration is 33L for landings and 36L for take off.

Mmm, somewhere in southern France, maybe La Rochelle

Yes, it´s going to be an underground station, the idea is to extend the underground from the old terminal station. The regional goverment intention is to finish it in 14 months or so, just in time for the elections :diablo:

In fact, the undeground extention for the new terminal was planned long time ago, but that was when the regional and national goverment were ruled by the same party, after the elections they had to spend a lot of time to agree again. This is because AENA (the airports and air navigation authority) depends from the infrastructure ministry but the public transport in Madrid region is managed by the regional gov, and no one wanted to pay alone the bill for the underground. The solution has been to give the contract to a private company, which will charge the regional gov for each transported passenger. But don´t worry, you won´t notice the difference, the same ticket for all the transport network will be used.

It opens on February 5, it was scheduled for January 29 but without any reason or explanation it was delayed. I´ve heard it´s related to the new automated baggage handling system, which is very complex and still has problems deciding what to do with your bags :diablo:

Look at these pics if you are interested, It´s going to be a big improvement for Barajas, I have been there while it was being built and it´s impressive, the new tower which have been in service for three or four years is very nice too.

Great pics! nice to see the FIO fleet in a foreigner forum. By the way, they are moving to Getafe airport (close to madrid too) in a few years