Sonia Corrochano, current director of Barcelona airport, takes on a major area within Aena from now on. The listed company has put him in charge of the airport planning and regulatory control department, the area that organizes and designs all the airports in the network. He will therefore have direct responsibilities for a possible extension of the Prat, a project that both ERC and the PSC agreed to study after the investiture agreement of Pere Aragonès as president of the Generalitat. “He will lead the actions that are finally carried out on the future of the airport”, they emphasized from Aena.
Eva Valenzuela, coming from Aéroports de Paris, will replace Corrochano as director of Barcelona Airport from July 1.
The position assumed by Corrochano, an aeronautical engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, was held by Elena Mayoral until she was appointed to head the General Directorate of Airports in February. The former director of El Prat took over the reins of Barcelona Airport in March 2012. Previously, and since joining Aena in 2002, she has held various responsibilities in the operations area of ​​this center and in the Directorate of the Barcelona Plan, among which the operations division (2011–2012) and the operations management department (2007–2011) stand out.
During its time at El Prat, the airport has grown to near its capacity limit in 2019, set at 55 million passengers, and has developed its network of long-haul flights. It has also had to face strikes, conflicts with the taxi drivers who work at the airport and the black summer that el Prat experienced in 2018 due to congestion, which ended up prompting the A Punt plan to avoid situations like those of then
The siege of the airport by the CDR and Democratic Tsunami in 2019 stands out among the moments that Corrochano had to manage from the direction of El Prat. From his new responsibility, he will follow the decisions taken on the development of Barcelona airport at the forefront.
For its part, Valenzuela is taking on the challenge of increasing intercontinental flights and consolidating the recovery of the airport after the pandemic. An aeronautical engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, she has twenty years of experience in the airport sector, having started her career at Aena in 2006, at Palma de Mallorca airport, where she held various positions. it is from this stage that he was the director of the Menorca airport (2017-2020). In August 2020, she made the leap as operations director of the ADP Group, Aéroports de Paris and deputy general manager of ADP Internacional.
