Mallorca airport is out of control
Cap on flights to Palma and the other two Balearic airport to help ease the tourism footprint.
Demands for flight reductions in the Balearics | Photo: Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma09/05/2025 10:01
If the minority centre right Partido Popular Balearic government is to be believed, Palma airport is out of control and it wants central government to put pressure on airport authority Aena, in which Madrid is the majority shareholder, to put a cap on flights to Palma and the other two Balearic airport to help ease the tourism footprint.
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As a very frequent traveler I know a thing or two about airports. And I agree that Palma Airport has always been relatively functional and efficient. Impressive, given the vast flow of traffic in the summer months in particular. I can think of many many airports with longer security lines and chaos. THAT said, the recent works seem totally haphazard and I don’t understand what the hell they are doing. Hopefully when it’s finished… it will be back to the level it had before. The parking leaves much to be improved and they should not funnel arriving passengers through one gate, which they started doing during Covid.
What moron decided to reduce the number of gates where you scan your boarding pass? This will be chaos in the summer. But don't worry, as you'll have a whole floor of shops to buy overpriced tourist crap when the work is finished.
GWhat about the 50,00 families from North Africa and South America that have made Mallorca their home somehow, within the past 8 years Never the elephant in the room that stays always the Tourist that goes home the problem
Aena is doing a fantastic job. Palma airport is one of the airports in Europe and Americas with shortest queues. With the new fantastic security machines where computers and liquids do not need to be separated, it becomes even better. Probably room for increasing flighs and passenger numbers by 50% or more.
Thank god that this is finally being discussed. A cap on flight or an airport curfew would solve a lot of the islands problems. Follow the Iceland model. Limit tourism by limiting the airport.