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 […]

Aeroplane makes emergency landing in Palma due to birth in flight A 26 weeks pregnant woman gave birth during the morning when flying from Nigeria to London Earlier this month a plane flying from Nigeria to London made ​​an emergency landing at Palma de Mallorca airport after a passenger gave birth in flight.  The woman, […]

Spain’s Development minister reveals a 34% increase in air traffic passengers for the Balearic’s over the 2014 Easter period with respect to 2013. The Development Minister, Ana Pastor , met  with Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Rafael Catalá, and with the president of the Balearic Islands, Jose Ramon Bauzá , to review […]

The Balearics however saw a 22.3% downturn in air passengers, a decline of 19.8% from Palma de Mallorca airport alone. The low cost airlines in Spain took 4.82 million passengers in the first quarter of this year, a 7.1% rise in respect the same period last year,  according to data published by the Subdirección General […]

A committee representing workers at EFS, the company responsible for maintenance and baggage handling at the airport of Son Sant Joan de Palma de Mallorca, have called a strike for the 16th of April through to the 21st right over the Easter week. In a statement released, workers state that the strike (strikes) will be […]

Module A has been closed since last November to reduce operating costs at Mallorca Son Sant Joan airport. The module has now reopened culminating with the start of the summer season. The closure, as in previous years, was motivated by the sharp drop in passengers at the end of the summer season. AENA-Palma therefore closed […]