Category: Palma Airport News

Autumn arrived in Mallorca with force last week and with more rain is forecast this week. The first wind and rainstorm after the summer left the island with nearly a hundred incidents, none of them serious, but firefighters worked during the period dealing with flooding and fallen trees and other objects on roads. A state […]

The Balearic airports surpassed 3 million passengers per month for the last four months The Balearic airports have exceeded 3 million passengers a month for the last four months and in just three months – July, August, and September – they collectively had over 13 million passengers, as revealed by the Airport Coordination Committee in […]

According to a study by Skyscanner the flight comparison website, the country with the worst Wi-Fi system at airports in Europe is Spain. Skyscanner states that 96% of passengers would like to have free Wi-Fi at airports. Compared to countries like Russia and Italy whose main airports offer free unlimited Wi-Fi, as do 46% of […]

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.  The total air traffic passengers were 3,451,911.  According to data released by AENA this is the fourth consecutive month of passenger growth this year, so far.  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 […]