Barcelona El Prat Airport experienced a record year in 2016 in terms of passenger traffic . During that year , the airport , located in Barcelona , Spain , handled more than 44.1mn passengers , an increase of 11.2 % over 2015 . It also recorded a 6.6 % increase in aircraft movements with 307,864 in total for 2016 .

Located in London , England , London- Gatwick Airport is the country ’ s second-largest airport and Europe ’ s eighth-largest in terms of passenger traffic . In 2016 , the airport served 43,119,628 passengers , a figure that demonstrates an increase of more than 7 % compared to 2015 . Gatwick also tracked nearly 281,000 aircraft movements out of its 115 gates in 2016 .

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