Category: Palma Airport News

Air Europa will begin interisland flights in the Balearic islands from the first of May.  This will link Palma’s Son Sant Joan to the airports of Ibiza and Menorca with six flights per day and as many back.  This will be operated by a European manufactured turboprop ATR 72 with a capacity of 68 places. […]

Ryanair will increase the number of flights from Palma to Barcelona, Cologne and other destinations. The airline presented its summer 2015 schedule for Palma de Mallorca airport, which includes 305 flights a week. To celebrate the launch of the 2015 summer schedule from Palma Airport, Ryanair is selling 100,000 seats to fly across its European […]

Everything changed for the king’s sister and her husband since the Nóos case began. During the winter holidays, the Duke and Duchess decided to celebrate Christmas Eve with the family of Iñaki, later flying back with a low-cost carrier from Bilbao to Barcelona as published on Saturday by El Mundo. Besides taking a low-cost flight, […]

A passenger from a non EU flight was intercepted by customs officers on Sunday shortly after touching down at Mallorca airport.  They were found to be carrying drugs in their body, which were later extracted in the Son Espases hospital, Palma. Security officials had their suspicions confirmed shortly after detaining the passenger.  The drug carrier […]

Over the Christmas season Aena has increased the free internet access time, via Wi-Fi connection, in Palma airport and the other 27 Aena airports that offer this service. That means the period of free access is doubled, going from the 15 minutes to 30 minutes.  This offer will be valid in a first phase until […]

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 […]