Palma de Mallorca Airport
Palma de Mallorca Airport Aeropuerto de Palma de Mallorca | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public and military | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Aena | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 7 m / 24 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°33′06.03″N 02°44′19.71″E / 39.5516750°N 2.7388083°E | ||||||||||||||||||
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Palma de Mallorca Airport or Aeropuerto de Palma de Mallorca (IATA: PMI, ICAO: LEPA) is an airport located approximately 8 km east of Palma de Mallorca, adjacent to the village C'an Pastilla. Previously known as Son Sant Joan Airport or Aeropuerto de Son Sant Joan, it is the third largest airport in Spain, after Madrid Barajas International Airport and Barcelona International Airport. During the summer months it is one of the busiest airports in Europe. The airport is a hub for German carrier airberlin.
Son Sant Joan Airport occupies an area of 6.3 km². 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 April 12 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 handles 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.
Statistics
Despite a decline in passenger numbers at the airport following the events of September 11, 2001, numbers have risen steadily since 2001 with over 22.3 million passengers using the airport in 2006.
| Passengers | Operations | |
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| 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 |
| Source: Aena Statistics [1] | ||
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- airberlin (Alicante, Almería, Amsterdam, Asturias, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bremen, Ciudad Real-La Mancha, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Faro, Frankfurt, Hannover, Ibiza, Jerez, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, Madrid, Mahon, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Murcia, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Porto, Rostock-Laage, Saarbrücken, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stuttgart, Valencia, Vienna, Zürich)
- Air Europa (Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Lisbon, Madrid, Málaga, Marrakech, Paris-Orly, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid)
- Austrian Airlines (Graz, Vienna)
- bmi (Belfast-International [seasonal], London-Heathrow, Manchester, Glasgow-Prestwick [seasonal])
- bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Centralwings (Katowice, Warsaw)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Condor Airlines (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabruck, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart)
- easyJet (Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Dortmund, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa [seasonal], Newcastle)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- First Choice Airways (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Humberside, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester)
- Flybe (Exeter, Southampton)
- Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Stuttgart)
- Hamburg International (Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, Weeze)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Ibiza, Mahon, Málaga, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Paris-Orly, Santander, Valencia)
- Jet2.com (Belfast-International, Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Jetairfly (charter) (Liège)
- LagunAir (León, Salamanca, Valladolid)
- Lauda Air (Vienna)
- LTE (Norwich)
- Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
- Niki (Graz, Linz, Lisbon, Salzburg, Vienna)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Ryanair (Alicante [begins 20 December], Birmingham [begins 28 October], Bournemouth, Bremen, Dublin, Dusseldorf-Weeze, Edinburgh [begins 5 November], Hahn, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Reus, Shannon, Girona (begins 20 December) (probable temporary termination between November 4 and December 18, 2008)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Spanair (Angelholm, Barcelona, Madrid, Stuttgart)
- Sterling Airlines (Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Liege)
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [Ends 31 October-Restarts 2 May 2009], Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Southampton)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam)
- Travel Service (Hungary) (Debrecen)
- TUIfly (Basel/Mulhouse, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leipzig/Halle, Memmingen, Münster/Osnabruck, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken)
- Wizz Air (Budapest-Ferihegy)
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.