Palma de Mallorca Airport

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Palma de Mallorca Airport
Aeroport de Palma de Mallorca
Aeropuerto de Palma de Mallorca
Aeropuerto PMI.jpg
IATA: PMIICAO: LEPA
Summary
Airport type Public and military
Operator ENAIRE
Serves Mallorca, Spain
Location Palma de Mallorca
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 7 m / 24 ft
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website aena-aeropuertos.es
Map
PMI is located in Majorca
PMI
PMI
Location in Majorca
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06L/24R 3,270 10,728 Asphalt
06R/24L 3,000 9,842 Asphalt
Statistics (2015 (Provisional))
Passengers 23,745,131
Passenger change 14–15 Increase2.7%
Aircraft movements 178,253
Movements change 14–15 Increase3.3%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Palma de Mallorca Airport (Catalan: Aeroport de Palma de Mallorca, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Palma de Mallorca; IATA: PMIICAO: LEPA) is an international airport located 8 km (5.0 mi) east[2] of Palma, Majorca, adjacent to the village of Can Pastilla. Also known as Son Sant Joan Airport or Aeroport de Son Sant Joan, it is the third largest airport in Spain,[1] after Madrid–Barajas and Barcelona. During the summer months it is one of the busiest airports in Europe, and was used by 23.1 million passengers in 2014.[3] The airport is the main base for the Spanish carrier Air Europa and also a focus airport for Ryanair and Vueling.

History

Early years

The history of Palma de Mallorca airport began in the 1920s, when seaplanes were used for postal services to the other Balearic Islands. A flat field next to Son Sant Joan was then used in the 1930s for flight routes to other parts of Spain. A private aerodrome was also set up.[4]

In 1938, Palma de Mallorca airport started being used for military aviation, while Iberia and Deutsche Lufthansa established new routes to the military base.[5]

In 1954, Palma de Mallorca's runway was extended and asphalted, and also had brand new taxiways and aprons added near it. This made the airport able to serve more airlines and more types of aircraft.

The increase in traffic in 1958 led to a new terminal being constructed, and turned the airbase into a large civilian airport. A new large apron was also built. The new airport opened to domestic and international traffic on 7 July 1960. Just two weeks later, expansion to the aerodrome was planned, including the extension of the runway and taxiway. At the end of the year, more plans were made, including a power plant, a communications centre and fire and rescue facilities.[6]

Growth since the 1960s

After reaching 1 million passengers for the first time in 1962, in 1965, a new terminal was constructed, and air navigation services were completed at the end of the following year. Also in 1965 Air Spain began operating from the airport[7] and a smaller terminal, which today is terminal B was planned to be built. Passenger numbers had increased rapidly, reaching 2 million in 1965. A second runway was also to be built. It was to be built parallel to the existing one, and work began on it in 1970. Two years later, terminal B went into service, and the second runway opened in 1974.

In 1980, the airport carried 7 million passengers. However, this increased to nearly 10 million in 1986. This yet again led to a new terminal to be constructed, which is today's current central terminal building where passengers both enter and exit the airport and also check in and retrieve their luggage. Construction started in mid-1993 and was designed by the Majorcan architect Pere Nicolau Bover. During the construction in 1995, passenger numbers exceeded 15 million. The new terminal finally opened in 1997.[8]

Today

Following a decline in passenger numbers at the airport following the September 11 attacks in 2001, numbers rose steadily between 2002 and 2007 when traffic peaked at 23.2 million passengers, however from 2007 there has been a decline in passenger numbers with 21.1 million using the airport in 2010.[1] Today, Palma de Mallorca airport carries over 23.1 million passengers[3] to their destinations, particularly to mainland Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.

In November 2015, Air Berlin announced to shut down their hub operations at the airport which they maintained for over ten years. While all direct flights from Germany and Switzerland remain, all seven domestic connection routes to the mainland - such as flights to Valencia, Bilbao and Sevilla - as well as the route to Faro in Portugal will cease subsequently during spring 2016.[9]

Modules

Apron view
Outside view of the main terminal

Palma de Mallorca Airport occupies an area of 6.3 km2 (2.4 sq mi). Due to rapid growth of passenger numbers, additional infrastructure was added to the two terminals A (1965) and B (1972). This main terminal was designed by local architect Pere Nicolau Bonet and was officially opened on 12 April 1997. The airport now consists of four modules: Module A (the former Terminal A Building), Module B (the former Terminal B Building), Module C and Module D (the last two were completely new sets of buildings and gates that opened along with the new central terminal and check in area in 1997). The airport can handle 25 million passengers per year, with a capacity to dispatch 12,000 passengers per hour.

Module A

The former Terminal A Building is located in the north of the airport. It has 28 gates of which 8 have airbridges. This is the only Module that has double airbridges attached to gates. The Pier is mainly used by flights to non-Schengen destinations including the UK and Ireland. This part of the terminal building is closed during winter months and is only used in the summer.

Module B

The former Terminal B Building is the smallest module, located in the north east. It has 8 gates located on the ground floor, of which none have airbridges. It is used by regional aircraft of Air Nostrum, mainly operating flights to Ibiza Airport, Menorca Airport, Valencia Airport, Lleida Airport, Asturias Airport and Santiago de Compostela Airport. This part of the terminal building is closed during winter months and is only used in the summer.

Module C

The largest of the Modules located in the east. It has 33 gates of which 9 have airbridges. It is used by Air Berlin, Niki and Condor along with EasyJet flights to Schengen destinations. The majority of airbridges have airberlin.com written on them. The southern area of the Module was worked on and reopened in May 2010. The refurbishment and expansion is so that the Module can handle more flights, and to improve ways to get into the pier as it is the longest walk from security control. There will also be a further 8 gates with airbridges, but there will still be 33 in total.[10]

Module D

Located in the south. It has 19 gates of which 10 have airbridges. All odd numbered gates are gates with a bus transfer. The majority of airbridges have airberlin.com written on them. During the closure of the southern area of Module C, it was used mainly for flights to Europe.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines Destinations Module
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana D
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens (begins 6 July 2016)[11] TBA
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Belfast–City, Cork, Dublin A
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya Airlines
Seasonal: Saint Petersburg A
Air Algérie Algiers A
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[12] D
Air Berlin Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Zürich
Seasonal: Dresden, Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Münster/Osnabrück
C
ASL Airlines Ireland Seasonal charter: Dublin A
Air Europa Alicante, Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Menorca, Paris–Orly, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Badajoz,[13] Ibiza,[14] Lisbon,[15] Málaga, Salamanca
Seasonal charter: Dublin, Shannon[16]
D
Air Moldova Seasonal charter: Chișinău A
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia
Seasonal charter: Belgrade D
AlbaStar Seasonal charter: Bergamo, Bologna, Cardiff, Milan–Malpensa, Verona, Venice D
Alitalia Seasonal: Milan-Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal charter: Bologna
D
Blue Air Seasonal: Turin (begins 4 June 2016)[17] D
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines
Seasonal charter: Bologna, Catania, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin D
British Airways London–Heathrow A
British Airways
operated by BA CityFlyer
London–City
Seasonal: London-Stansted [18]
Seasonal charter: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Isle of Man[19]
A
Bulgaria Air Sofia A
Condor Manchester A
Condor Frankfurt, Hanover
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
C
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam D
Czech Airlines Seasonal charter: Ostrava, Prague D
easyJet Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Edinburgh,[20] Glasgow,[21] London–Luton,[22] London–Southend, Manchester,[23] Newcastle upon Tyne[24]
A
easyJet Amsterdam,[25] Berlin–Schönefeld, Hamburg[26]
Seasonal: Lyon,[27] Milan–Malpensa,[28] Naples,[29] Nice (begins 4 July 2016),[30] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[31] Rome–Fiumicino,[32] Toulouse[33]
C
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse
Seasonal: Geneva[34]
C
Edelweiss Air Zürich C
Enter Air Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław D
Etihad Regional
operated by Darwin Airline
Seasonal charter: Sion[35] D
Europe Airpost Paris–Charles de Gaulle D
Eurowings Vienna D
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki D
Flybe Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton A
Germania[36] Bremen, Erfurt/Weimar
Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[37] Frankfurt,[37] Kassel, Münster/Osnabrück,[37] Rostock
Seasonal charter: Humberside, Norwich
A, D
Germania Flug Zürich TBA
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Hamburg, Hanover, Stuttgart
D
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Bern D
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum
Alicante,[38] Lleida, Ibiza, Menorca, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia
Seasonal: Badajoz (begins 22 July 2016),[39] Salamanca
Seasonal charter: Vitoria
B
Iberia Express Madrid, London Heathrow
Seasonal: Stuttgart (begins 18 June 2016)[40]
A, D
IGavion
operated by SkyTaxi
Seasonal: Dole[41] TBA
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne A
Jetairfly[42] Charleroi, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Brussels, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
Seasonal charter: Cork
A, D
jetXtra.com
operated by BA CityFlyer
Seasonal charter: Humberside A
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Seasonal: Munich
D
Luxair Luxembourg
Seasonal: Châlons Vatry
D
Meridiana Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa,[43] Naples (begins 21 July 2016),[44] Rome–Fiumicino[44]
Seasonal charter: Turin
D
Monarch Airlines London–Gatwick, Manchester
Seasonal: Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton
A
Neos Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona D
Niki Graz, Salzburg, Vienna
Seasonal: Innsbruck, Linz
C
NordStar Seasonal charter: Saint Petersburg A
Norwegian Air Shuttle Aalborg, Barcelona,[45] Copenhagen, Gothenburg–Landvetter, Helsinki, London–Gatwick, Madrid,[45] Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda A, D
Orbest Seasonal charter: Lisbon,[46] Porto[46] A
Primera Air Aalborg[47]
Seasonal charter: Gothenburg–Landvetter
D
Ryanair Edinburgh, London–Stansted
Seasonal: Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester, Prestwick, Shannon
A
Ryanair Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bremen, Brussels, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hahn, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Weeze
Seasonal: Baden-Baden/Karlsruhe, Beauvais, Bergamo, Billund, Bologna, Bratislava, Eindhoven, Girona, Göteborg–Landvetter, Kaunas, Kraków, Málaga, Marseille, Memmingen, Moss, Porto, Poznań, Reus, Rome–Ciampino, Santander, Stockholm–Skavsta, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin
D
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo D
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Aarhus (begins 27 June 2016),[48] Gothenburg–Landvetter
D
SkyWork Airlines Bern A
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Humberside, Manchester,[49] Vilnius D
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[50]
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Prague D
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Slovakia[50]
Seasonal: Bratislava D
SunExpress Deutschland Frankfurt,[51] Munich,[51] Nuremberg[51] D
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich D
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest D
Thomas Cook Airlines Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: London–Luton (begins 22 May 2017), Norwich
A
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels D
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Bergen, Billund, Borlänge, Copenhagen, Gothenburg–Landvetter, Helsinki, Karlstad, Malmö, Örebro, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Stockholm–Arlanda C
Thomson Airways Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Edinburgh, Exeter, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton, London–Stansted
Seasonal charter: Dublin, Liverpool[52]
A
Transavia Munich[53]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam/The Hague
C
Transavia France Seasonal: Nantes
Seasonal charter: Metz/Nancy
C
Travel Service Airlines Debrecen, Wrocław D
TUI Airlines Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam D
TUIfly Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart D
TUIfly Nordic[54] Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Norrköping, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda D
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil D
Ural Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo D
Volotea Seasonal: Asturias, Bari, Bordeaux, Lille,[55] Nantes, Palermo, Pisa (begins 28 June 2016),[56] Southampton,[57] Toulouse, Turin, Venice, Verona,[58] Vigo, Zaragoza
Seasonal charter: Cork, Jersey, London-Southend
A, C, D
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Málaga, Munich, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia
Seasonal: Algiers, Amsterdam, Asturias, Bordeaux, Brussels, Catania, Cardiff, Genoa, Lyon, Marseille, Moscow–Domodedovo, Paris–Orly, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse
A, D
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest, Cluj-Napoca A
XL Airways France Seasonal: Lille D

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
Swiftair Barcelona, Madrid

Other facilities

Previously Spanair had its head office in the Spanair Building on the airport property.[59] Both Futura International Airways and Iberworld used to have large operational offices on the premises of the airport but these are no longer in use.

Statistics

Passenger statistics

Palma de Mallorca Airport Passenger Totals 1999–2013 (millions)
Updated: 22 February 2015.[1] 2015 Data Provisional.
Passengers Movements Cargo (tonnes)
1999 19,127,773 168,533
2000 19,424,243 176,997 25,156
2001 19,206,964 169,603 23,068
2002 17,832,558 160,329 20,412
2003 19,185,919 168,988 19,935
2004 20,416,083 177,859 20,408
2005 21,240,736 182,028 21,025
2006 22,408,427 190,304 22,443
2007 23,227,983 197,354 22,833
2008 22,832,865 193,357 21,395
2009 21,203,028 177,492 17,086
2010 21,117,417 174,635 17,289
2011 22,726,707 180,152 15,777
2012 22,666,858 173,966 13,712
2013 22,768,082 170,138 12,237
2014 23,115,622 172,630 11,462
2015 23,745,131 178,253 11,373
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Route statistics

Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 taxiing at Palma de Mallorca Airport
Jet2.com Boeing 737-300 taxiing at Palma de Mallorca Airport
Vueling Airbus A320 takeoff from Palma de Mallorca Airport
Busiest international routes from Palma-Son Sant Joan Airport January–October (2011)
Rank City Passengers Top carriers
1 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany 906,124 Air Berlin, Condor, Lufthansa, TUIFly
2 Germany Cologne/Bonn, Germany 707,428 TUIFly, Germanwings, Condor, Air Berlin, Ryanair
3 Germany Frankfurt, Germany 693,944 Air Berlin, Condor, Lufthansa, TUIFly
4 United Kingdom Manchester, United Kingdom 686,802 Thomson Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines, Ryanair, Monarch, Jet2, EasyJet, Condor Flugdienst
5 United Kingdom London–Gatwick, United Kingdom 587,341 EasyJet, Monarch, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways, Norwegian Air Shuttle
6 Germany Stuttgart, Germany 578,890 TUIFly, Contact Air, Germanwings, Condor, Air Berlin
7 Germany Hamburg, Germany 569,159 Air Berlin, Condor, Lufthansa, TUIFly
8 Germany Munich, Germany 515,083 TUIFly, Lufthansa, Condor, Air Berlin
9 Germany Berlin–Tegel, Germany 399,026 Air Berlin, Lufthansa
10 Switzerland Zürich, Switzerland 366,889 Swiss International Air Lines, Air Berlin
11 United Kingdom London–Stansted, United Kingdom 303,190 Ryanair, EasyJet, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
12 United Kingdom East Midlands, United Kingdom 277,870 Thomson Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines, Ryanair, Monarch, Jet2
13 Germany Dortmund, Germany 271,404 Air Berlin, EasyJet, Germanwings
14 Germany Nuremberg, Germany 269,084 Air Berlin, TUIFly
15 Germany Bremen, Germany 257,006 Air Berlin, Ryanair
16 United Kingdom Bristol, United Kingdom 248,289 Thomson Airways, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, EasyJet
17 United KingdomBirmingham, United Kingdom 245,740 Monarch, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
18 Germany Paderborn, Germany 244,868 Condor, Air Berlin
19 United Kingdom London–Luton, United Kingdom 242,432 EasyJet, Monarch, Thomson Airways
20 Germany Leipzig, Germany 236,341 Air Berlin, Condor

Accidents and incidents

See also

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