Madrid-Torrejón Airport

About Madrid-Torrejón

Madrid, the Spanish capital, is a vibrant, atmospheric city, short on famous monuments but rich in cultural sights. Pride of place belongs to the city’s three superb art museums. The Prado has one of the most remarkable art collections in the world, with works by major Spanish and European masters from the Renaissance onwards.

Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is devoted to 20th-century Spanish art with representative works by Miró, Dalí, Juan Gris, and above all by the Cubists, including Picasso. The famous work on show is his masterpiece from the Civil War period, Guernica. The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is one of the most important private collections of western painting in the world, with more than 800 paintings from the Italian Renaissance to the 20th-century avant garde.

About Madrid-Torrejón Airport

Madrid-Torrejón airport is 22 km from the centre of the capital. It is an air station that was opened to civil traffic under an agreement reached on 23 December 1996 between the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Public Works.

Civil aircraft operations are authorised at Torrejón when they meet the requirements for operating in IFR (instrument flight) and have a maximum take-off weight of between 2,000 and 50,000 kg. This is the technical alternate airport for Madrid-Barajas for duly authorised civil aircraft.

Torrejón is dedicated to executive and private aviation; it is the most important Spanish aerodrome for air-taxi traffic.

During 2005, it handled 19,229 passengers and 13,054 flight operations.

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