Good news for holiday villas in Spain as Barcelona airport wins prestigious award

Visitors to holiday villas in Spain, flying into Barcelona will be happy to learn that Barcelona airport has won the coveted "over 25 million passengers" category at the 6th Annual ACI EUROPE Best Airport Awards last night.

As part of the 20th ACI EUROPE Congress in Milan, the awards recognised outstanding achievement in core activities such as security, customer service and environmental awareness. Barcelona Airport's ambitious €100 million environment investment plan also impressed the jury, along with their extremely valuable collaboration with disability groups.

Two Spanish airports, Bilbao and Ibiza have bucked a Europe-wide trend of falling passenger numbers caused by the volcanic ash cloud to show more passenger numbers in April 2010 than in April 2009.

"This will be welcome news for owners of holiday villas in Spain as it's been a hard couple of years and a little bit of good news means a lot".