Palma Airport - May passengers almost at 2019 level

In May, there were 24,248 flights at Palma. These represented an increase of 5.9% compared with May 2019. The number of passengers (arriving and departing) was 3,119,255 - two per cent down on 2019. Even so, this number points to the fact there is unquestionably a recovery in tourism after the two seasons affected by the pandemic.

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Palma's 2% drop was the second lowest among the the eight busiest airports in the Aena network - Valencia was down 1.1% to 739,159 passengers. Three of these airports registered increased numbers of flights - Ibiza was up 4.7% to 8,181 and Malaga by 1.1% to 14,148 as well as Palma. None of these eight had increased numbers of passengers. One has to go to number eleven on this list - Lanzarote - to find an increase (up 2.2% to 580,136).

For all airports, there were 22,262,317 passengers, 9.6% below the 2019 figure. There were 208,745 flights, 97.6% of what they were in May 2019.