The offender was three times over the drink drive limit when his car mounted the pedestrian area in the departures zone.  All vehicles involved suffered extensive damage. The 22 year old man was arrested last weekend after crashing into a road sign, two national police patrol cars and a motorcycle. He was driving at the […]
Last week a car violently burst through the perimeter fence of Palma de Mallorca airport knocking down a section of fencing next to the Sant Jordi roundabout. The car was found in the airport but without documents identifying the driver. The driver fled after allegedly driving around for a mile or so inside the enclosure […]
Son Sant Joan airport yesterday was a morning of delays and diversions for certain flights due to heavy fog. The dense fog settled at around 06:00am at the head of the Palma airport runways. This caused six international flights to divert, two to Menorca and four to Ibiza. Two other flights between Menorca and Mallorca […]
Palma Airport has the busiest day of the year programmed for the whole of Spain, surpassing even Madrid and Barcelona airport and it’s tomorrow. (954 flights!) Over the August “Puente”, bridged holiday period 3.49 Million travelers will pass through Spanish airports. The national holiday is in honor of the festival of “la Asunción’ and Spanish […]
Palma Airport passenger numbers increased in July by 1.8 percent compared with the same month last year. Â The total air traffic passengers were 3,451,911. Â According to data released by AENA this is the fourth consecutive month of passenger growth this year, so far. Â Menorca airport had a passenger increases of 1.3 percent in July. The […]
 Thousands of passengers who took their early morning flights on Thursday ignored the presence of a lifeless body. René Becker  an estimated 61 year old German who made his ‘residence’ at Palma Airport, sadly passed away. The body of the homeless German was lying for several hours on a bench in the departures lounge […]
The massive thunderstorm that affected the Catalan coast on Monday this week forced fifteen outbound flights from Barcelona to cancel, according to the sources at Aena. Four flights had to divert, two of them to Palma airport, on their way to Barcelona Airport and the other two flights to Girona airport. The Airlines cancelled the […]
Six flights were cancelled at Palma Airport on Wednesday due to the chaos caused by the French air traffic controllers strike. Car rental companies and their customers also suffered from the knock on effects of the cancellations at Palma airport. Wednesday the 25th was the worse day of the strike where a total of 54 […]
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 […]
Chaos ensued yesterday afternoon at the Son Sant Joan airport due to the taxi drivers.  For about two hours taxis leaving the airport ceased to run and to make matters worse they didn’t let any coach, minibus or pre-arranged taxi leave in protest against the illegal taxis known as ‘pirates’. The conflict began when a […]
