Palma de Mallorca Airport
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Palma de Mallorca Airport
or Aeropuerto de Palma de Mallorca
(IATA:
PMI, ICAO:
LEPA) is an
airport located
8 km (5.0 mi) east[2]
of
Palma de Mallorca, adjacent to the
village of Can Pastilla. Also known as Son
Sant Joan Airport or
Aeropuerto de Son Sant Joan,
it is the third largest airport in
Spain, after
Madrid's
Barajas Airport and
Barcelona Airport.
During the summer months it is one of the busiest airports in
Europe. The
airport is the main base for the
Spanish carrier
Air Europa and
also a hub for
German carrier
Air Berlin.
Son Sant Joan 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 gate areas: Terminal A is mostly used for
domestic flights, while Terminals B, C and D are for international
traffic. The airport can handle 25 million passengers per year, with a
capacity to dispatch 12,000 passengers per hour. Future plans include an
increase of the passenger capacity to 32 million passengers in 2010 and
to 38 million passengers in 2015.
Airlines
and destinations
| Airlines |
Destinations |
|
Aer Lingus |
Dublin [seasonal] |
|
Air Berlin |
Alicante, Almeria, Amsterdam,
Asturias, Basel/Mulhouse, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld,
Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Bilbao, Ciudad Real, Cologne/Bonn,
Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Faro,
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Ibiza, Jerez, Karlsruhe, Leipzig,
Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Murcia,
Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Porto, Saarbrücken, Santiago de
Compostela, Sevilla, Stuttgart, Valencia, Zürich[3] |
|
Air Europa |
Albacete, Alicante, Badajoz, Barcelona,
Bilbao, Cork [seasonal], Granada, León, Madrid, Málaga,
Paris-Orly, Sevilla, Valencia, Valladolid |
|
Air Méditerranée |
Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly |
|
Ándalus Líneas Aéreas |
Nador |
|
Arkefly |
Amsterdam [seasonal] |
|
Bmibaby |
Birmingham [seasonal], Cardiff [seasonal],
East Midlands, Manchester |
|
British Airways
operated by
BA CityFlyer |
London-City [begins 21 May; seasonal][4] |
|
Brussels Airlines |
Brussels |
|
Bulgaria Air |
Sofia |
|
Cimber Sterling |
Copenhagen |
|
Condor |
Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn
[seasonal], Düsseldorf [ends 31 October], Frankfurt, Hamburg
[ends 31 October], Hanover [ends 31 October], Leipzig/Halle
[seasonal], Munich [ends 31 October], Stuttgart [ends 31
October] |
|
Darwin Airline |
Berne [begins 16 May] |
|
EasyJet |
Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International
[seasonal], Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield
[begins 20 April], Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Liverpool,
London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 10 July] |
|
Flybe |
Exeter, Southampton |
|
Germania |
Berlin-Tegel [begins 3 April, seasonal] |
|
Germanwings |
Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg [begins 28
March], Hanover [begins 29 April], Stuttgart |
|
Hamburg International |
Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Münster/Osnabrück
[begins 2 May], Saarbrücken, Weeze |
|
Iberia |
Madrid |
| Iberia operated by
Air Nostrum |
Huesca, Ibiza, Minorca, Valencia, Valladolid |
|
Iberworld |
Brussels, Cork, Dublin, Shannon [all
seasonal] |
|
Jet2.com |
Belfast-International, Blackpool, Edinburgh
[begins 26 June], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle [all
seasonal] |
|
Jetairfly |
Brussels, Liège, Ostend |
|
Lufthansa |
Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich |
|
Luxair |
Luxembourg |
|
Monarch Airlines |
Birmingham, London-Luton, Manchester [all
seasonal] |
|
Niki |
Graz, Innsbruck [seasonal], Linz [seasonal],
Lisbon, Salzburg, Vienna |
|
Norwegian Air Shuttle |
Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen,
Stockholm-Arlanda |
|
Palmair |
Bournemouth |
|
OLT |
Kiel [begins 8 July] |
|
Ryanair |
Alicante [seasonal], Birmingham [seasonal],
Bristol [begins 31 March], Bournemouth [seasonal], Bratislava
[begins 4 May], Bremen, Dublin [seasonal], East Midlands
[seasonal], Edinburgh [seasonal], Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick,
Hahn, Leeds/Bradford [begins 26 March], Liverpool,
London-Stansted, Lübeck, Madrid, Oslo Rygge [begins 2 April],
Reus, Shannon [seasonal], Stockholm-Skavsta [seasonal], Weeze |
|
Sky Work Airlines |
Berne [begins 28 March] |
|
Smart Wings
operated by
Travel Service |
Prague, Brno, Ostrava [all seasonal] |
|
Spanair |
Barcelona, Copenhagen, Cork [begins 1
May;seasonal], Madrid |
|
Swiss International Air Lines |
Geneva, Zürich |
| Swiss operated by
Swiss European Airlines |
Geneva |
|
Thomas Cook Airlines |
Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Birmingham,
Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin [begins 1 May],
Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter,
Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick,
London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich |
|
Thomson Airways |
Belfast-International [seasonal],
Birmingham, Bournemouth [seasonal], Bristol [seasonal], Cardiff
[seasonal], Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham-Tees Valley [seasonal],
Dublin [begins 1 May; seasonal], East Midlands, Edinburgh
[seasonal], Exeter [seasonal], Glasgow-International, Humberside
[seasonal], Leeds/Bradford [seasonal], London-Gatwick,
London-Luton [seasonal], London-Stansted [seasonal], Manchester,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich [seasonal], Southampton [seasonal],
Shannon [begins 4 May; seasonal] |
|
Transavia.com |
Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen [all
seasonal] |
|
Transavia.com Denmark |
Copenhagen |
|
Travel Service (Hungary) |
Debrecen |
|
TUIfly |
Basel/Mulhouse [seasonal], Berlin-Tegel
[begins 12 April, seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf,
Frankfurt, Hamburg [seasonal], Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg
[seasonal], Stuttgart |
|
Vueling Airlines |
Barcelona, Bilbao [begins 30 March], Lleida |
|
Wizz Air |
Budapest, Cluj-Napoca |
In addition to those listed above, there are also
numerous charter flights.
Since 2002 the former Terminal B is no longer in use.
The new terminal B known as Módulo B or Interislas has been built next
to the control tower, and is used for inter-Islands (Mahón and Ibiza)
flights.
Terminal A, part of the original airport, is
currently being used for the majority of British bound low fares and
charter flights. Easyjet has its own set of boarding in this part of the
airport, which has also been recently expanded to create two levels of
gates.
Statistics
Despite a decline in passenger numbers at the
airport following the
September 11 attacks
in 2001, numbers have risen steadily since 2002 with over 22.8 million
passengers using the airport in 2008.
|
Passengers |
Operations |
| 1999 |
19,127,773 |
168,533 |
| 2000 |
19,424,243 |
176,997 |
| 2001 |
19,206,964 |
169,603 |
| 2002 |
17,832,558 |
160,329 |
| 2003 |
19,185,919 |
168,988 |
| 2004 |
20,416,083 |
177,859 |
| 2005 |
21,240,736 |
182,028 |
| 2006 |
22,408,427 |
190,304 |
| 2007 |
23,227,983 |
197,354 |
| 2008 |
22,832,865 |
193,357 |
| Source:
Aena Statistics
[1] |
|
