The Balearic Islands are celebrating Sustainable Mobility Day with staggering figures. The three island airports – Palma (PMI), Ibiza (IBZ), and Menorca (MAH) – have registered an overall increase of 75% in passenger numbers over the last quarter century. Between 2000 and 2024, total passengers rose from 26.67 million to 46.54 million, the most significant increase among Spanish airports. These figures confirm what many experts have been denouncing for years: the environmental "unsustainability" of the island's economic model, which bases its income on the increase in the number of visitors, with the highest growth rate in the entire country. As for passenger traffic by sea, the figures have almost doubled in less than 20 years. Regular passenger traffic has increased from 3.9 million in 2010 to 7.4 million in 2024, while the 2.5 million cruise passengers represent an increase of one million people between 2010 and 2024.

Although the plans of the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, were to have the bill approved this autumn to try to control the influx of vehicles to Mallorca and send it to the Parliament, the text still does not have sufficient political support in the Consell de Mallorca. The party that most opposes it is Vox, to the point that for the moment it makes it unthinkable that the PP can count on its votes. "We cannot accept in any way that a fee is imposed on Spanish citizens to enter Mallorca with their car. No Spaniard should pay a fee to enter the island," explained the spokesperson for the party to the island institution, Toni Gili, on ARA Baleares.