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Mallorca flights: Only 59% on time at Palma airport

Responsible for this content: Frank Menze

Mallorca’s Palma airport sits bottom of AirHelp’s summer punctuality ranking: only 59% of flights were on time from July to September. Across Spain, 30% of flights were delayed or cancelled in those months. AirHelp checked more than 290,000 flights at 44 Spanish airports.

Archivo - Decenas de personas transitan por la T4 del Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, a 30 de agosto de 2026, en Madrid (España).
Europa Press

Palma trails other airports

The ranking includes airports with more than 400 departures a month. At Eivissa airport, 64% of flights were on time, compared with 74% at Madrid-Barajas. Asturias led the ranking at 84%, followed by Bilbao at 81%.

How long were flights delayed?

Across Spain, 88,000 flights were delayed or cancelled. Of those, 85,000 were at least 15 minutes late and almost 3,000 were cancelled. More than 22,000 flights were delayed by at least an hour; 6,500 were at least two hours late and 2,400 were delayed by three hours or more.

Topics: Air travel · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com

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