The new train between Palma and Llucmajor will begin construction in 2028 and, if the planned deadlines are met, will become operational in 2032. The infrastructure will connect a dozen neighborhoods in the two municipalities and will allow travel to Palma airport in just over ten minutes.

In September 2025, a non-binding resolution from the People's Party (PP) regarding airports was approved, as well as a proposed organic law, initiated by the MÉS parties for Mallorca and Menorca, for the creation of an Airport Authority for the Balearic Islands, which is currently under parliamentary review. However, in my opinion, this debate is neither serious nor objective. Airport management is a complex issue that cannot be analyzed or addressed based on prejudice or simplistic assumptions.

The Balearic Islands Transport (TIB) buses connecting the Calvià, Inca, Manacor, Sa Pobla, Alcúdia, Llucmajor, and Campos area with Son Sant Joan Airport will offer a regular service year-round, even during the off-season, as announced this Thursday by the Minister of Housing, Mobility, and Territory, José Luis Mat. This service will begin this Saturday on lines A11 (Camp de Mar-Airport), A33 (from the Port of Alcúdia), A43 (Manacor), and A51 (Campos). Buses will run every hour to every hour and 1 hour and 15 minutes, depending on the line. The first buses will depart between 4:15 and 4:40 a.m. for the airport, and the last buses will leave Son Sant Joan between 10:30 and 11:40 p.m. The four lines will have an average of between 26 and 38 daily trips. Mateo emphasized that this is the first time a regular service has been offered on the four Aerotib bus lines during the off-season and from Monday to Sunday. The objective of this initiative is to "respond to the demand of citizens" and guarantee connectivity between the main population centers of Mallorca and the airport. According to the manager of the Mallorca Transport Consortium (CTM), Luisa Serra, the Aerotib service had not been offered during the off-season in the last five years, and in the three years prior, from 2017 to 2019, it was offered with a maximum of eight trips per day. These changes have been made possible thanks to the modification of the concessions of the bus service. With the change in the three contracts, the service offering goes from 16.5 million kilometers (included in the contracts initiated in 2021) to 24.6 million annually in the modification, which represents an increase of almost 50% of the service initially planned.

The Balearic Cultural Organization (OBC) approached the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility to change the official name of Palma de Mallorca Airport to "Palma Airport." To reinforce this request, the OCB met with the airport director, Tomás Melgar.

Faced with the "complete disconnect" between airport policy, which in recent years has done nothing but expand flights and facilitate the entry of tourists to the islands, and policies to contain (the term the PP uses to avoid talking about degrowth) overcrowding in the territory, MÁS por Mallorca and Más por Menorca have gotten to work. The eco-sovereignty movement will defend a bill this Tuesday in plenary session to demand that airport authority be transferred to the government. This is a way to limit Aena, the commercial company that manages them, after receiving 15.9 million visitors to 18.7 million between 2014 and 2024, according to data from the INE (National Institute of Statistics and Census). The law has the approval of the PP, at least to allow its processing, while the PSIB (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) is hesitant.

The Platform Against the Expansion of Palma Airport and several neighborhood and environmental associations demanded this Saturday a ban on night flights to Son Sant Joan as part of the International Day to End These Operations, promoted by the European network Stay Grounded.

One of the good news stories of the summer, and there is one, was that in just a couple of days, the GOB managed to raise more than enough money to cover the legal costs of the appeal it filed in 2020 against the expansion of the illustrious and never-beloved Son Sant Joan Airport.

Palma airport has recorded two cancelled flights and delays in baggage claim on the third day of the strike by airport staff. handling at airports throughout the country. This was reported by the Secretary of Trade Union Action and Collective Bargaining of FeSMC UGT Baleares, José Manuel Peces, who attributed the two flight cancellations and the delays, "of almost an hour," to the baggage claim at Son Sant Joan airport and the strike by ground staff at Menzies Airlines.

In five days, the GOB has managed to raise the 5,000 euros needed to cover the legal costs arising from a lawsuit filed by the entity against the works to expand the operational capacity of Palma Airport, promoted by Aena.

Workers at Groundforce, the main operator of handling At Palma Airport, they raised their voices against what they consider an "unsustainable" labor situation. The union branches of CCOO, UGT, and USO, members of the company committee, gathered this Wednesday at the airport facilities to demand immediate improvements in their working conditions and denounce the increasing precariousness they suffer. Around 150 workers participated in the event, which took place in Bay 1 of Son Santjoan, and they threaten to strike this August if the company does not meet their demands.

Workers of companies subcontracted by Aena to provide logistics and ground operations services to aircraft, airlines and passengers (handling) at Son Sant Joan Airport complain of working "among fleas and cockroaches." A worker on the ARA Baleares plane shows off her body "covered in flea bites." In fact, at the workers' demonstration this Friday protesting working conditions, the secretary of the UGT (Union of Workers' Union) for the air sector in the Balearic Islands, José Negreira, denounced that "there's everything in the baggage claim area." "We have workers with many bites all over the place. It's shameful," he reiterated. Along the same lines, he added that passengers, "when they board, they see fireflies running around." "The airport is the gateway for tourism to the Islands. We're the first face they see, and the service isn't very good," he insisted.

Workers at companies subcontracted by Aena to provide logistics and operational services to aircraft, airlines, and passengers at Son Sant Joan Airport threatened this Friday to cause a "total collapse" in August due to the "precariousness of the sector" and the conditions in which they are forced to work. Balearic Islands Minister José Negreira warned that "if the government and Aena do not contact the workers within a week," he announced that they will bring out a hundred cars they have already prepared and begin circling the roundabout with the goal of ensuring that "no one gets through." handling They protested at the airport over the contracts with companies paid by Aena. "They give them 10-hour contracts, and as the season progresses, they increase them and they add a lot of overtime," explained José García, secretary of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Transport of the UGT (General Workers' Union), . "They treat the permanent, discontinuous workers as if they were temporary staff," the workers denounced. "We want them to hire staff and provide us with 100% of the minimum services," Negreira insisted.

The Balearic Islands' airports recorded a total of 85 canceled flights and widespread delays this Friday, the second day of the French air traffic controllers' strike. According to information from Aena consulted by Europa Press, up to 69 connections to Palma Airport, the most affected of the Spanish airports, were canceled this Friday, along with a dozen in Ibiza and six in Menorca.