Transport
Handling services price war benefiting airlines in Palma
The airlines will benefit from lower costs but workers will continue to experience a lack of job security.
Transport
Increased flights for the Balearics this year
Vueling in particular will be increasing the number of seats for flights with the mainland, while adding new routes to France and Switzerland.
Industrial relations
Airport handling workers threatening to strike over redundancies
Acciona is seeking the redundancies because of the loss of business it had with Niki.
Transport
First step towards airport co-management
Co-management has been an aspiration of governments in the Balearics - both of the right and of the left.
Industrial relations
Threat of new year industrial action at Palma airport
Industrial action against redundancies to be made by Acciona Handling is one threat next year.
Transport
Fines for 78 pirate airport transport operators
Fines totalling 80,000 euros were issued against pirate operators at Palma airport.
Transport
Airline bankruptcies pushing up ticket prices
The immediate effect has been to push up prices over the festive period.
Transport
Airport caters for 145,000 passengers with mobility needs
Aena says that it wishes to treat passengers with mobility needs "as though they are part of the family".
Heritage
Council of Majorca comes to the rescue of the "Coronado"
The Convair 990A Coronado has been at Palma airport since the end of the 1980s.
Tourism
Palma airport due to have record-breaking low season
Palma is currently very much in vogue for the European market and beyond.
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.
Transport
Airport passenger numbers rose by 5% in August
Palma airport had 4.18 million passengers in August, up by 5.2%.
Health
Demand for more soundproofing against aircraft noise
Aena's measurements for determining the need for soundproofing are said to not be correct.
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?
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."
Transport
Palma wanting an end to night flights
Palma town hall is making a number of requests about flights, noise and pollution.
Palma airport
Palma airport will obviously be affected if there are strikes.
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
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.
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.
- Greece and Portugal cash in as Spain says adios to Golden visa
- Pollensa planning for "visual harmony" but the Mercadona supermarket could still go ahead
- Tax cuts in the Balearics but the government is still rolling in tax revenue
- Surge in bookings to the Balearics
- Calvia home to the most expensive properties in Spain