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 […]

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 […]