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Walkway is expected to make life easier
31 million passengers for an island with a population of one million
22 million international passengers.
Your weekly news catch up in Mallorca
This week empty homes, housing law, tourist saturation, the heat is on, passenger numbers and irresponsible behaviour.
No expansion of Palma Airport for five years
No expansion, but capacity is set at 34 million passengers.
July airport passengers 42% lower than 2019
The forecast for the whole year is for around 50% of the number of passengers in 2019.
1,000% increase in Palma Airport passengers in June
A big leap compared with June 2020, but not with June 2019.
Transport
Airport insisting there will be no increased hourly capacity
The airport director points to a difference between increased passenger demand and capacity for handling flights.
Statistics
Palma airport passengers total rose two per cent in 2019
Palma has long been the third busiest airport in Spain in terms of whole-year traffic.
Travel
Over 720,000 passengers at airports this weekend
Today will be the busiest day - 1,674 flights and 267,928 passengers.
Transport
Palma airport passenger numbers break 29 million mark
Passenger numbers for flights to and from the UK were down four per cent.
Transport
New record for passenger numbers at Palma airport
The highest number of people in the Balearics - residents, tourists and others - is always registered on a day in the middle of August.
Transport
Promotion of resort bus services at this winter's travel fairs
More than 155,000 users of the four routes up to the end of September.
Transport
Airport passenger numbers rose by 5% in August
Palma airport had 4.18 million passengers in August, up by 5.2%.
Transport
Palma airport breaking records again
There were more flights at Palma yesterday than ever before.
Transport
Under 5% of Soller train tickets are bought by residents
More than 1.5 million tickets were sold in 2016, 95.4% of them to non-residents.
Transport
Low-cost airline bases in Palma to double next summer
Information from airlines and tour operators suggests that the total number of passengers in 2017 will top the 27 million mark.
Tourism
Cruise numbers down for the first half of the year
The half-yearly figures for cruise-ship passenger traffic show a decrease of more than four per cent.
Tourism
Cruise shipping in the Balearics has risen by 16%
1.41 million passengers came into the five Balearic ports onboard 605 ships, which themselves represented an increase of over 13%.
Tourism
Record period for Spanish airports in September
The airports of Son Sant Joan (Palma) and Ibiza both had record Septembers, with Palma having registered 3.1 million passengers.
Tourism
Almost a million Balearic cruise passengers up until July
Spain received 4.29 million cruise ship passengers in the first seven months of the year, an increase of over 11%.
- What a carry on! European Union abandons full launch of new travel entry system for Britons in favour of "phased rollout"
- Uncertainty surrounds EU Entry/Exit System implementation
- Fresh hope for Golden Visa in Spain
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