
The Barcelona Air Route Development Committee was created at the beginning of 2005 by the Town and County Planning and Public Works Department of the Generalitat - the Catalonian autonomous government, the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the Barcelona City Council and Aena - Spanish Airports Manager - in order to promote the development of new intercontinental routes from Barcelona Airport.
The ARDC deals with co-ordination between the local institutions and is a point of contact for airlines, which thus favours the possibility of establishing new air services to Barcelona.