PMI - Palma de Mallorca 🇪🇸

:round_pushpin: Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code
Palma de Mallorca Airport (ICAO: LEPA / IATA: PMI)

:globe_showing_europe_africa: Location (City, Country)
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

:chart_increasing: Airport Type & Size
International airport with 2 runways, B747 can land here, 30M pax/year

:vertical_traffic_light: Why should this airport be added to World of Airports?
It’s an airport next to Midetarian Sea. We don’t have much airports next to it. It will be also perfect for low-coasts and charter airlines.

:airplane_departure: Major Airlines & Routes
Lufthansa, United (summer),Ryanair, Enter air, Easy Jet, TUI, Jet 2 — routes to Europe and US

Also Lufthansa is operating flights from FRA to PMI by B747-8 one/two time/s a year and TUI flies B787s to PMI from MAN and BHX.

:world_map: Unique Features or Challenges
Beutiful view of Mallorcan mountains and Midetarian Sea, biggest Baleares airport, 3rd biggest airport in Spain, parallel runways, nice planespotting camera.

:camera_with_flash: ** Links, images, maps, or videos**


With PMI we can also get nice planespotting camera:

Let’s get 30 votes here, only two votes…

Now let’s get to 40 or 50 votes.

50 votes, let’s go to 50 votes…

Can you stop begging for votes under your post, if people want it they will vote for it. That’s the whole point of this voting system.

OK :+1:.
I’ll stop doing that.

Disclaimer : this is unofficial and made for fun.

We need this.

So as per my spiel regarding Vancouver, my second one is Palma cause I think it’s neat.

Liveries,

So yeah, to begin with, a bit more variety in regards to Iberia and what they have available.

AT76 (New livery),

CRJ9,

Old livery,

DH8C,

CRJ2,

CRJ9,

CRJX,

A319,

A320,

A321,

A333,

MD87,

MD88,

Air Europa,

E195 new livery,

E195 old livery,

B738 new livery,

B738 old livery,

B38M,

B763,

A332 old livery,

A333 old livery,

B788,

Iberojet,

A320,

Pre-2010 potentials,

Also, depending on whether the devs would be happy pushing back past that 2010 mark, some other 2000s era aircraft,

Iberia

F50 (Till 2006),

B744 (2004-2006),

B743 (2000-2005),

B742 (Till 2005),

B752 (Till 2008, 30 operated),

B763 (Very iffy one, 2 operated between 1998 and 2002),

Air Europa,

B733 (Till 2004),

B734 (Till 2006),

B736 (Till 2004),

A342 (Till 2006),

Airlines,

Iberia Express,

Spanair,

Thomas Cook Balearics (Uses some of the assets of Condor’s in-game A320 and it was Palma based),

Albastar,

Andalus (E145 operator, flew into Palma but not based there but ya know, could be cool and Canada has a lot of these lol),

Cosmo,

Evelop,

Hola Airlines (Just into 2010, Palma based charter with 757’s),

Iberworld,

Mint Airways,

Orbest (Iberworld changed its name into Orbest),

Pullmantur Air,

Plus potentially the earlier 2008 retired B743/B742,

Pre-2010 potential airlines,

Air Comet (by less than a month of the 2010 limit, gone in December 2009),

Air Asturias (Not really practical as a local cause it was Asturias based but threw it in anyway cause I love the livery, 2006 deceased airline),

Air Madrid (Again, Madrid based but it actually ran many flights to PMI, could be cool to have, 2006 demise),

Clickair,

Futura (Ceased in 2008, was based at Palma though),

Gadair (ceased in 2009, 757 operator with cool livery so is a must for me lol),

Girjet (Ceased in 2008, F100 operator),

Lagunair (Again, Leon based by cool livery, went to Palma and E145’s, ceased in 2008),

LTE (Another 2008 airline lost, flew to Palma sometimes for holiday flights),

Plus the old 757 livery for a special,

Finally a cross cargo pax airline that died in 2009 with an awesome livery, which you will see if you fly into Barcelona or Valencia as both are stored,

Cargo (Gonna mix both pre and post 2010 and just label them as there aren’t that many),

FlyAnt (Pre-2010, died 2008 with Futura),

Swiftair,

A321F,

B733SF (final scrapped in 2025),

B738F,

AT75F,

AT72F (Pictured at PMI below),

AT43F (Same again, pictured at PMI, both in 2025 as well),

Potential specials,

Iberia B741,

Iberia Retro A319,

Iberia CRJX Thank you Valencia Floods,

Air Europa B734 Andalucia,

Air Europa B752 1990s livery,

There are loads of potential pass aircraft though as Palma has been a massive European holiday destination for decades, with massive aircraft running short haul routes, something you see today with Jet2 and edelweiss still operating large aircraft in on the regular and Lufthansa occasionally as well as Swiss. I know BA has previously flown 767’s on the regular, 777’s and even 747’s in which Lufthansa has also done, 747’s that is. Would be an awesome airport with so much potential variety showcased above, especially if the devs add other European carriers which flew regularly in and out but are now long gone, something I could spend all day doing but I’ll leave this here for now.

A final thought, you might notice just how many of these airlines died in 2008/09. The financial recession hit Spain hard as not only was their economy struggling like everyone else’s, they relied heavily on tourism, something which was cut back on by a lot of Northern Europeans who were trying to save money and were tightening their purse strings. So many airlines struggled to survive and vast swathes of Spanish aviation went down the drain, as did jobs. Would be awesome if for this airport, the devs could be a little lenient regarding the 2010 rule so we could get these fab airlines in-game, which were sadly lost back in 2008/9.