Palma de Mallorca Airport (IATA: PMI, ICAO: LEPA) — also known as Son Sant Joan Airport – is an international airport located 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Palma, Mallorca, Spain, adjacent to the village of Can Pastilla.

In 2020, the airport handled 6.1 million passengers (after 29.7 million in 2019, in pre-COVID-19 conditions), making it the third busiest airport in Spain, after Madrid–Barajas and Barcelona–El Prat. Passenger traffic then recovered to 31.1m in 2023. The airport is the main base for the Spanish carrier Air Europa and also a focus airport for Eurowings, EasyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair and Vueling. The airport shares runways with the nearby Son Sant Joan Air Force Base, operated by the Spanish Air and Space Force.

The interest of the Spanish Government in developing airmail during the first decades of the 20th century, led to a study of the possibility of establishing an air mail line to the Balearic Islands. Finally, in 1921, the company Aeromarítima Mallorquina established the postal line Barcelona - Palma, which used seaplanes in the port of Palma de Mallorca. Before the creation of this airline, trials were complete in two flat fields: Son Sant Joan and Son Bonet, both of which were later chosen for the construction of aerodromes.

In 1934, the company Aero-Taxi de Mallorca was created with the intention of starting tourist flights to the island, establishing a flight school in Son Sant Joan. A year later, another one was founded in Son Bonet.

In May 1935 the company LAPE, Líneas Aéreas Postales Españolas (Spanish Postal Airlines), a predecessor of Iberia; was founded. A month later, in August, the first regular air route between Madrid and Palma, stopping at Valencia, was created using the Son Sant Joan aerodrome. A year later, this line was replaced by a new one connecting Palma and Barcelona. Three years later, Lufthansa and Iberia established new lines in Son Bonet, while Son Sant Joan was beginning to be used by the military. Through the years, Son Bonet became the main civilian airport in the island, while the creation of Son Sant Joan Air Force Base limited further civilian enterprises at the aerodrome.

In 1954, the runway was enlarged and paved to enable the operation of F-86 Sabre fighters, which also meant the diversion of the Palma–Llucmajor road. During those years, the first paved taxiways and aprons were built, while Son Bonet received the first big groups of European tourists through the airlines BEA, Air France and Aviaco.

The increase in traffic, and the inability to enlarge Son Bonet, led the authors of the 1958 National Airport Plan to propose building a large civilian airport near the Son Sant Joan airbase. The National Airport Council approved this plan the following year and commercial traffic was transferred from Son Bonet to Son Sant Joan. This was the birth of what today is known as the Palma de Mallorca Airport. During that year, a terminal and a civilian apron were built south of the military facilities, along with a VHF communication center. Also, a VOR was installed in the island.

Finally, on 7 July 1960, the airport was opened to both domestic and international traffic.

Just two weeks later, expansion of the airport was declared urgent by the government, and on summer 1961 the works of extension of the runway and taxiway were started. At the end of the year, more plans were made, including a power plant, a communications centre and fire and rescue facilities.

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 (1965–1975) began operating from the airport and a smaller terminal (today's Terminal B) was planned. Passenger numbers increased rapidly, reaching 2 million in 1965. Construction of a second runway, parallel to the existing one, was begun in 1970. Two years later, terminal B went into service, and the second runway (06L/24R) opened in 1974.

In 1980, the airport carried 7 million passengers. However, this increased to nearly 10 million in 1986. This led to the construction of yet another new terminal building, the current central terminal building. This building is now the airport's primary entrance and exit and houses the airport's checkin and baggage claim areas. Construction started in mid-1993 and it 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.

Following a decline in passenger numbers at the airport following the September 11 attacks in 2001, passenger numbers rose steadily between 2002 and 2007 when traffic peaked at 23.2 million passengers. From 2007 onward there was a decline in passenger numbers, with 21.1 million using the airport in 2010. Today, Palma de Mallorca airport carries over 29.7 million passengers per year to their destinations, with 178,253 aircraft movements, mostly to mainland Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.

In November 2015, Air Berlin (1978–2017) announced that it would shut down its hub operations at the airport which it had maintained for over ten years. 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 ceased during spring 2016.

During the summer months the dual-runway airport handles as many movements as London–Gatwick. On the busiest day of the week it handles as many as 1,100 movements, almost as many as London–Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe. According to the operational data provided by AENA, the airport can handle 66 movements per hour, or almost 1,600 movements over a 24-hour operational period.

In June 2024, torrential rains flooded the airport leading to delays.

Palma de Mallorca Airport occupies an area of 6.3 km (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 Bover 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.

The former Terminal A Building is located in the north of the airport and has blue signs. 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 used to be closed during winter months and is only used in the summer. For winter 2018/2019 it remained open.

The former Terminal B Building is the smallest module, located in the north east and has green signs. It has eight gates located on the ground floor, of which none have airbridges. It is used by regional aircraft of Air Nostrum.

The largest of the modules located in the east and has purple signs. It has 33 gates, of which 9 have airbridges. It is used mainly by Eurowings and Condor along with EasyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle flights to Schengen destinations. 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 eight gates with airbridges, but there will still be 33 in total.

This is located in the south and has orange signs. It has 19 gates of which 10 have airbridges. All odd numbered gates are gates with a bus transfer. During the closure of the southern area of Module C, it was used mainly for flights to Europe.

Previously Spanair (1986–2012) had its head office in the Spanair Building on the airport property. Both Futura International Airways and Iberworld had large operational offices on the premises of the airport but these are no longer in use.

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Palma de Mallorca Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Cork, Dublin
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Arabia	Nador Seasonal: Tangier
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga, Tallinn (begins 13 April 2025), Tampere, Vilnius
Air Europa	Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Madrid, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Valencia Seasonal: Seville
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charter: Bergamo, Bern, Bologna, Bratislava, Lisbon, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto
Air Serbia	Seasonal: Belgrade
AlbaStar	Seasonal charter: Bergamo, Bologna, Friedrichshafen, Groningen, Inverness, Milan–Malpensa, Tel Aviv, Venice, Verona
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal: Vagar
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Binter Canarias	Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Braathens International Airways	Seasonal charter: Ålesund, Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Luleå, Norrköping, Oslo, Skellefteå, Trondheim, Stavanger, Umeå, Växjö
British Airways	London–City, London–Gatwick Seasonal: Edinburgh, London–Heathrow Seasonal charter: Belfast–City, Guernsey (begins 4 May 2025), Jersey, Isle of Man (begins 10 May 2025)
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels
Bulgaria Air	Seasonal: Sofia
Chair Airlines	Zurich
Condor	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Zurich
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Hannover
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Discover Airlines	Frankfurt Seasonal: Munich
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bristol, Geneva, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa Seasonal: Amsterdam, Athens, Belfast–City, Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lille, Lisbon, London–Southend, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Southampton, Toulouse
Edelweiss Air	Zurich
Enter Air	Seasonal charter: Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Katowice, Poznań, Rzeszów, Warsaw-Chopin, Wrocław
Eurowings	Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stuttgart Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Graz, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Linz, Memmingen, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Prague, Saarbrücken, Salzburg, Zurich Seasonal charter: Innsbruck
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Paderborn/Lippstadt
GetJet Airlines	Seasonal charter: Vilnius
Helvetic Airways	Seasonal: Bern, Zurich Seasonal charter: Sion
Iberia	Ibiza, Lleida, Menorca, Valencia, Vigo Seasonal: Almería, Alicante, Andorra/La Seu d'Urgell, Badajoz, Castellón (begins 18 July 2025), Córdoba, León, Logroño, Melilla, Nador, Nice, Pamplona, Reus, Valladolid, Vitoria, Zaragoza
Iberia Express	Madrid
ITA Airways	Seasonal: Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Jet2.com	Birmingham, London–Stansted, Manchester Seasonal: Belfast–International, Bournemouth (begins 2 April 2025), Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jettime	Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen, Halmstad, Jönköping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Luleå, Malmö, Norrköping, Skellefteå, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sundsvall, Umeå, Örebro, Oulu, Växjö
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Leav Aviation	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal charter: Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
Marabu	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse (begins 24 May 2025), Cologne/Bonn (begins 11 April 2025), Dortmund (begins 24 May 2025), Friedrichshafen (begins 23 May 2025), Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (begins 25 May 2025), Leipzig/Halle (begins 17 April 2025), Münster/Osnabrück (begins 23 May 2025), Nuremberg (begins 11 April 2025), Rostock (begins 23 May 2025), Stuttgart (begins 29 March 2025)
Neos	Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Aalborg, Aarhus, Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Harstad/Narvik, Helsinki, Oslo, Sandefjord, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stockholm–Skavsta, Växjö Seasonal charter: Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim
People's	Seasonal: St. Gallen/Altenrhein
Play	Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Ryanair	Alicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bremen, Bologna, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Hamburg, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Prague, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Treviso, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin, Weeze Seasonal: Aarhus, Belfast–International, Billund, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Cagliari, Cork, Dresden, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Fès, Glasgow–Prestwick, Gothenburg, Jerez de la Frontera, Kaunas, Klagenfurt, Knock, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, Marrakech, Marseille, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paderborn, Pisa, Porto, Poznań, Rome–Fiumicino, Sandefjord, Shannon, Teesside, Tenerife–North, Toulouse, Valladolid, Verona, Vitoria, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb, Zaragoza
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg, Oslo Seasonal charter: Bodø, Haugesund, Stavanger, Trondheim
SmartLynx Airlines	Seasonal charter: Münster/Osnabrück
Smartwings	Prague Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Košice, Ostrava Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Bergen, Billund, Bornholm, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Jönköping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Kristiansand, Malmö, Odense, Örebro, Oslo, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim, Visby
Sundair	Seasonal: Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel, Lübeck
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva, Zurich
TAP Air Portugal	Seasonal: Lisbon
Transavia	Amsterdam, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Eindhoven, Lyon, Nantes, Rotterdam/The Hague
Travelcoup	Seasonal: Munich, Zurich
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Inverness, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Shannon (begins 6 May 2025), Southampton (begins 27 May 2025), Teesside
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Antwerp, Brussels, Liège, Lille, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen
TUI fly Nordic	Seasonal charter: Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenborg-Landvetter
Uep Fly	Ibiza, Menorca
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark
Volotea	Seasonal: Asturias, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brest, Deauville, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Vueling	Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Jerez de la Frontera, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza Seasonal: Amsterdam, Lisbon, Nantes, Rome–Fiumicino, Santander
Wizz Air	Seasonal: Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Katowice, London–Luton, Rome–Fiumicino, Warsaw–Chopin

Airlines	Destinations
Swiftair	Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid, Menorca

Traffic by calendar year

	Passengers	Movements	Cargo (kilos)
2000	19,424,243	176,997	25,156,479
2001	19,206,964	169,603	23,068,964
2002	17,832,558	160,329	20,412,784
2003	19,185,919	168,988	19,935,677
2004	20,416,083	177,859	20,408,137
2005	21,240,736	182,028	21,025,694
2006	22,408,427	190,304	22,443,596
2007	23,228,879	197,384	22,833,556
2008	22,832,857	193,379	21,395,791
2009	21,203,041	177,502	17,086,478
2010	21,117,417	174,635	17,292,240
2011	22,726,707	180,152	15,777,101
2012	22,666,858	173,966	13,712,034
2013	22,768,032	170,140	12,236,854
2014	23,115,622	172,630	11,462,907
2015	23,745,023	178,254	11,373,639
2016	26,254,110	197,640	10,452,860
2017	27,950,655	208,787	10,191,236
2018	29,081,787	220,329	10,018,045
2019	29,721,123	217,218	9,021,606
2020	6,108,486	76,851	6,732,880
2021	14.496.857	141.189	6.754.791
2022	28.573.364	220.690	7.592.108
2023	31.105.987	228.920	7.184.352
Source: Aena Statistics

Busiest international routes from PMI (2023)

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Düsseldorf	1,315,080	2%
2	Cologne-Bonn	905,422	2%
3	Hamburg	876,346	9%
4	Frankfurt	848,597	7%
5	Berlin	789,835	1%
6	Manchester	782,656	9%
7	Munich	743,920	17%
8	Zurich	707,795	23%
9	London-Gatwick	678,690	8%
10	Stuttgart	593,796	7%
11	Vienna	534,842	1%
12	London-Stansted	481,373	24%
13	Paris-Orly	443,233	25%
14	Nuremberg	434,965	9%
15	Bristol	426,444	22%
16	Birmingham	408,566	12%
17	Amsterdam	366,750	10%
18	Copenhagen	361,859	0%
19	Hannover	348,702	11%
20	London-Luton	346,898	17%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo

Busiest domestic routes from PMI (2023)

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Barcelona	2,280,516	12%
2	Madrid	2,037,990	9%
3	Valencia	710,758	11%
4	Ibiza	551,368	5%
5	Seville	480,128	11%
6	Alicante	458,178	18%
7	Menorca	387,728	8%
8	Málaga	359,957	9%
9	Bilbao	306,698	9%
10	Santiago de Compostela	233,115	22%
11	Granada	174,785	2%
12	Zaragoza	119,857	11%
13	Asturias	94,111	6%
14	Gran Canaria	79,103	15%
15	Jerez de la Frontera	68,183	17%
16	Valladolid	48,867	39%
17	Vitoria	48,086	29%
18	Tenerife-North	47,069	18%
19	Santander	27,868	41%
20	Vigo	18,590	5%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo

Passengers by airline at PMI (2023)

Rank	Airline	Share	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Ryanair	25,4%	7,887,693	9%
2	Eurowings	12,8%	3,990,754	8%
3	Vueling	10,4%	3,230,963	11%
4	Air Europa	5,9%	1,832,489	4%
5	Condor (airline)	5,1%	1,592,680	7%
6	EasyJet Europe	5,0%	1,545,227	8%
7	Jet2.com	4,2%	1,298,203	13%
8	Air Nostrum	2,9%	906,859	17%
9	EasyJet	2,9%	900,622	7%
10	TUI Airways	2,8%	862,954	1%
11	Iberia Express	2,6%	809,951	11%
12	TUI fly Deutschland	1,5%	456,630	3%
13	Swiss International Air Lines	1,3%	393,669	18%
14	Lufthansa	1,1%	343,426	27%
15	Sunclass Airlines	1,0%	315,821	6%
16	Volotea	1,0%	295,006	9%
17	Transavia	0,8%	261,373	5%
18	Scandinavian Airlines	0,8%	256,374	2%
19	Transavia France	0,8%	236,098	20%
20	Norwegian Air Sweden	0,7%	211,137	9%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo

Passengers by country at PMI (2023)

Rank	Airline	Share	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Germany	29,3%	9,119,808	4%
2	Spain	27,7%	8,629,661	10%
3	United Kingdom	17,5%	5,431,518	11%
4	France	4,1%	1,272,063	12%
5	Switzerland	3,8%	1,170,340	19%
6	Italy	2,5%	776,469	10%
7	Austria	2,2%	676,813	8%
8	Netherlands	1,9%	591,214	7%
9	Denmark	1,8%	562,261	3%
10	Sweden	1,4%	443,486	1%
11	Poland	1,3%	398,177	40%
12	Ireland	1,3%	395,976	8%
13	Norway	1,0%	313,584	6%
14	Belgium	0,9%	283,167	7%
15	Portugal	0,7%	229,613	51%
16	Czech Republic	0,6%	177,913	21%
17	Luxembourg	0,6%	175,482	11%
18	Hungary	0,3%	82,081	2%
19	Romania	0,3%	79,501	36%
20	Finland	0,2%	62,843	26%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo

• On 4 January 1991, Douglas DC-3 EC-EQH of Aeromarket Express overran the runway on a cargo flight to Menorca Airport and was damaged beyond repair.
• On 8 March 1993, Douglas C-47A EC-FAH of Aeromarket Express crashed on take-off while on a cargo flight to Madrid–Barajas Airport. Both crew were killed.
• On 12 April 2002 Tadair Flight 306 operated by a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner EC-GKR a cargo flight from Madrid–Barajas Airport to Palma de Mallorca. Flight 306 crashed on landing on runway 24L, killing both pilots.
• In June 2024, sudden floods shut down the airport. The water damaged the runways and terminal building.

• ENAIRE

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