Palma Airport News May/June
Saturday, June 21st, 2014
Palma Airport increases options to European cities by launching three new routes.
These are to Rennes (France), Munich and Frankfurt (Germany).
Palma de Mallorca airport released these extra flights to European routes early last week, thus expanding its choice to international destinations for the summer season.
So starting from the previous Saturday the Spanish carrier Vueling now flies from Mallorca to the French city of Rennes twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Â The Spanish airline is the only one offering this destination from Palma de Mallorca.
Vueling also began to flight to Munich on June 12th and will continue throughout the season, every Thursday and Saturday.
These two routes add to Vueling’s offering of destinations from the Majorcan airport which also includes, since April, Seville and Brussels.
A new route from Frankfurt also opened earlier last week with German airline Germania. These flights will be operated once a week, on Saturdays.
This is the fourth route Germania has opened from Palma Airport, the other routes are to Aberdeen, Dresden and Friedrichshafen, although these have been operating from the beginning of the season.
Since the start of the summer season of 2014, Palma Airport has released a total of 15 new flight programs.
A woman was arrested at Palma airport for carry 21 concealed packets of cocaine in her body.
The Guardia Civil arrested the passenger earlier this month upon her arrival on a flight to Palma airport. The arrest was made on suspicion of a crime against public health, for concealing in her body 21 packets of cocaine.
Custom officers at the Airport worked with the Guardia Civil locating the 21 packets of cocaine hidden inside her body. The passenger, 26, carried 245 grams cocaine.
A Ryanair aeroplane made an emergency landing at Palma de Mallorca Airport due to a fire warning.
On the morning of the 29th of May according to a Europa Press report, sources from Aena in Palma’s Son Sant Joan airport indicated that a Ryanair aircraft had to make the emergency landing because of a fire warning in the landing gear.
The aircraft, which was carrying 148 passengers took off from Palma Airport at 6:43 was on its way to Memmingen (Germany). At 7:20 it requested permission to make an emergency landing.
The aircraft pilots reported a fire warning in the landing gear, so they requested to return to the departure airport.
The situation forced the airport to activate its emergency landing procedure, although it wasn’t necessary to assist any passengers due to injuries or for smoke inhalation or shock.
After the crisis was over and the emergency status deactivated  experts started to investigate the possible causes for the failure of the fire warning light which made it come on falsely.
by Brendan Bierley
