Etiqueta 'Palma airport'
Over 40,000 flights during the low season at Palma.

Transport

Palma low-season flights up by over four per cent

Over six million seats are currently scheduled between now and the end of March.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter29/10/2017 00:00

Hotel chambermaids are deserving of health treatment, but is this a "purpose" for the tourist tax?

Majorca

Airport, holiday prices, chambermaids: the week in Majorca

Night flights and possible airport strikes; tour operators holding back on hotel contracts; tourist tax going up. And what did chambermaids have to do with the tourist tax?

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter26/08/2017 00:00

Flight noise is said to be "unbearable".

Health

Demand for more soundproofing against aircraft noise

Aena's measurements for determining the need for soundproofing are said to not be correct.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter26/08/2017 00:00

Some courier and freight flights operate at night.

Transport

Airline industry warns of harm from stopping Palma night flights

"I don't believe that it (the town hall) has acted with common sense or with having thought about the economic consequences."

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter24/08/2017 00:00

Palma town hall is seeking a reduction in the number of flights.

Transport

Palma wanting an end to night flights

Palma town hall is making a number of requests about flights, noise and pollution.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter22/08/2017 00:00

Palma airport

Palma airport

Palma airport will obviously be affected if there are strikes.

Archive 16/08/2017

For two decades Air Berlin had been the leader at Palma airport.

Transport

Air Berlin's decline ends in insolvency

Air Berlin's losses were staggering and it faced ever-mounting competition. Palma flights and jobs are safe for at least the remainder of this summer season.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter15/08/2017 00:00

Record number of passengers but a typical day for the airport this summer.

Transport

Madrid government accused of passport control "negligence"

PSOE members of Congress from the Balearics are blaming the government for the passport control situation. Yesterday was another record day at the airport. Queues, yes, but they are being dealt with.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter06/08/2017 00:00

The government has been insisting on co-management of Palma airport.

Transport

Government trying again to get co-management of Palma airport

The regional government wants to be able to moderate high-season traffic and boost it in the low season.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter06/08/2017 00:00

Yes, it was pretty hot in Majorca last week.

Majorca

Tourismphobia and insufferable heat: the week in Majorca

A small group of radicals latched onto the tourist saturation theme; Majorca was enduring an intense heatwave; Calvia was celebrating action against illegal sellers; and the airport was never out of the news.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter06/08/2017 00:00

Tourists arriving at the airport in May were faced with a sudden stoppage by taxi drivers.

Transport

Taxi drivers threatening new action against airport pirate operators

Taxi drivers say that the transport ministry and Palma town hall have not kept to promises about inspectors and police.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter03/08/2017 00:00

EasyJet celebrated its twenty millionth passenger at Palma.

Transport

EasyJet celebrates 20 millionth passenger at Palma

Stewart Draper received a pleasant surprise when he arrived yesterday at Palma airport.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter03/08/2017 00:00

Queuing for passport control on Wednesday morning.

Police

More police for airport passport control

More police are being drafted in for passport control, and there are now more scanners for boarding passes.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter22/07/2017 00:00

Private jet flights increasing at Palma.

Transport

Private jet flights using Palma up by 15% this year

Demand for luxury residential tourism is contributing to increased private jet flights.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter14/07/2017 00:00

Twenty passport scanning units have been acquired, but National Police are still needed.

Travel

Tour firms getting passengers to airport extra early

The police confederation said yesterday that the main problem is that the number of officers has been cut.

Humphrey Carter12/07/2017 00:00

The airports authority is hoping to reduce the delays at passport control.

Travel

Urgent action being taken to resolve passport chaos

Aena and the National Police are working together in resolving the issues and three steps are being taken.

Humphrey Carter12/07/2017 00:00

The situation at passport control is particularly acute at weekends.

Travel

Passport chaos for Britons at Palma airport

The number of National Police officers on passport duty is not within the airports authority's jurisdiction.

Humphrey Carter11/07/2017 00:00

One way to stop drinking: close the bars. This was when there was a strike in 2012.

Police

Police union condemns airport and flight drunkenness

The union has "deep concern" about repeated and daily incidents of assaults and fights at airports.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter20/06/2017 00:00