Barcelona Following completion of the visit, I headed to the Barcelonaairport to begin my 9-hour flight on my Gulfstream G550 aircraft back to our corporate headquarters in Naples, Florida.
Heading through Barcelonaairport on the way home, I flashed the virtual boarding pass on my non-NFC phone and went through without showing any physical document - except a passport.
With engines started and all systems checked, the Barcelona tower gave us clearance to taxi to the departure runway on the opposite side of the airport.
American, the only U.S. carrier that flies directly from New York to London's Heathrow Airport, is pushing ahead internationally with plans to expand service to and from Rome, Spain's Barcelona and other European destinations.