Holidays in Palma, Mallorca Island

Palma de Mallorca, October 2025

This was my last period of holidays this year. Initially, I didn't plan going anywhere but I started considering Marrakech or Palma for a few days. Palma de Mallorca won. Both destinations are well known for me. I went to Mallorca twice in 2021 and visited Marrakech in 2017. The idea was not to see anything new but to just have a few days to relax and replenish energies.

On the last day in Mallorca, when the weather became unstable due to the approaching storm Alice, we decided to get out of our resort and visit Palma. First, the unmissable cathedral (Santa Maria of Palma)...

... the streets...

... Plaça Major...

... and finally a photo of the resort where we stayed - near Platja de Palma - and a photo of the A320 of Iberia Express the day we left. Storm Alice was affecting flights since the previous day, causing huge delays. My flight to Madrid was two hours delayed and I had to reschedule the second leg from Madrid to final destination Lisboa. It was my first time flying with Iberia Express and Iberia mainline.

First leg on the A320 EC-LVQ and second leg on the A320neo EC-NTA featuring the Airspace cabin with XL overhead bins.

Starway 711P

Palma de Mallorca, May 2008

Let's go back in time (May 2008) to wonderful ACMI days. I really miss them although I couldn't imagine having again my days and life planning completely "leased" to an airline. It was the right experience at the right time. Perhaps, the best year in my life that I won't repeat ever again. Back then, I wanted to explore the world and stay away from home and school, flying with my favorite airplane.

We started this operation flying for Air Méditerranée and ended up with XL Airways France. We spent a few days based at CDG while doing flights to Palma de Mallorca and Fuerteventura. Here are some photos at CDG airport:

Iron Maiden 757 (background)

Angry passengers dealing with big delays pointing their fingers to us while we were passing through the Terminal despite it was not our airline's fault - after all, we were there to "save" their holidays. Well, I must say it was the usual scenario for our kind of operation but in the end everybody was happy to finally reach their destination. We even had some portuguese passengers on board.

Palma de Mallorca:

Spanair A321 @ PMI

PMI ramp

One photo of our TriStar @ PMI, remembering the days when several charter airlines used big TriStars to cross european skies flying nordic and british tourists to warmer destinations in the south:

CS-TMP @ PMI

TriStar's main landing gear (left side)

Europe Airpost 737

To be continued...