The Spanish affiliation for airline time slots, AECFA, has launched figures for the 2025/2026 off-season which point out a 10.3% discount in flights to and from Balearic airports and an 8.3% discount within the complete variety of obtainable seats.
The airways’ ‘winter’ season runs from the begin of November to the tip of March. For the approaching season there are 62,652 flights and 9.2 million seats. These evaluate with 69,845 and greater than 10 million for 2024/2025. The figures are topic to potential change, however not on a scale that might characterize a big motion both up or down.
Of the three Balearic airports, Palma is ready to have the sharpest reductions – 13% fewer flights and 9 per cent fewer seats (to round 6.9 million). AECFA has but to present element as to routes, however whichever these are, the reductions, following low-season progress definitely for the reason that pandemic, threaten to undermine a core aspect of presidency tourism technique. This has been to develop the off-season and with the hope of effecting a type of redistribution of tourists away from the excessive season.
On Tuesday, President Prohens responded to the publication of findings from the federal government’s survey of public opinion about tourism by observing that “we now have a season of ten months, when earlier than it was 4 months”. “We are seeing a rise within the low-season months, one thing which all political events have searched for some years.” The AECFA figures counsel in any other case.
Over the winter season, Mallorca has relied for years on German and Spanish tourism. British has been a distant third. German tourism, which had been rising on common by ten per cent monthly, went into sudden reverse in May. This was repeated in June and July (August’s figures usually are not obtainable but). The scheduled reductions for this coming winter could also be a mirrored image of this downward pattern.
For 2024/2025 there was an 8.5% improve within the variety of seats; Palma had 7.8 million.
