

The easiest and most relaxing way to get to the city centre is to book an airport transfer service.

You'll need a Metro Zone A transport ticket and pay an airport supplement of € 4.50 ( US$ 4.90). The journey takes approximately 30 minutes. The cheapest way to get from the city centre to any one of the airport’s terminals, and to avoid any traffic jams, is by metro. The fastest and easiest ways of getting to Madrid from Barajas Airport are the following: Metro If you fly from Barajas, it's essential to check which terminal you depart from since Terminal 4 is 1 mile (2 km) away from the rest of the terminals and you'll need to get off at another metro station (if you take the subway), train station (if you take the train), and take a different exit if you drive to the airport.

Terminal 4 was the last terminal to be built and was inaugurated in February 2006 making Barajas one of the largest airports in the world by physical size. Madrid-Barajas has four terminals and a satellite. With over 57 million passengers in 2018, Barajas has become Europe’s fifth most important airport by number of passengers, after London’s Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Schipol in Amsterdam and lastly, Frankfurt Airport. Madrid-Barajas Airport was opened in 1928, although it was officially inaugurated three years later.
