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Palma de Mallorca delays on Monday, 28 July 2025

Eurocontrol logged 1,071 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Palma de Mallorca that day across 26 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 483 (5% of the day's arrivals), with 59% of the delay attributed to aerodrome capacity. That makes it the 195th worst day at Palma de Mallorca since January 2019.

Eurocontrol record · LEPA · 2025-07-28

ATFM arrival delay1,071 min
Arrivals held 15+ min26 of 483
Aerodrome capacity629 min · 59%
ATC capacity442 min · 41%
Weather observed (METAR)CLEAR
Lowest visibility · max gust9,994 m · none

Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 41% of this day's delay sits in categories airlines usually plead as extraordinary circumstances.

Were you on a flight that day?

The day the flight was due to leave, in local time where it left. For an overnight flight, that is the evening you set off.

Same flight number twice that day? Add the departure code

Free. No account. The airline is not contacted.

What this means if your flight was late

Under UK261 and EU261 you are owed £220, £350 or £520 (or €250, €400, €600) per passenger for arriving three hours or more late, unless the airline proves extraordinary circumstances that could not have been avoided even with all reasonable measures. Airport-wide records like this one are the airline's favourite evidence, and they cut both ways.

  • The usual defences have little behind them on this day. The logged cause was aerodrome capacity, which is arguable at best. A refusal citing weather or air traffic control should be answered with this record.
  • Cancelled that day? Compensation depends on notice: under 14 days and no close re-routing means it is due, subject to the same extraordinary-circumstances test. You are always owed a refund or re-routing and care while you wait.
  • Delayed under three hours? No fixed compensation, but food, drink and communications were owed after two hours on a short flight, and reasonable expenses are recoverable.

The free check pulls your flight's own record (actual arrival time against schedule) and pairs it with this day's data, so the verdict and the letter are specific to your flight, not to the airport.

Other airports the same day

Barcelona4,178 minWeather
Brussels3,648 minAerodrome capacity
Nice Côte d’Azur3,623 minATC capacity
Amsterdam Schiphol3,583 minAerodrome capacity
London Gatwick2,959 minAerodrome capacity
Naples2,370 minEnvironmental issues
Bucharest Otopeni2,301 minAerodrome capacity
Athens2,176 minATC capacity
Zürich1,953 minWeather
Munich1,724 minWeather

Other bad days at Palma de Mallorca

11 October 202532,026 minWeather
15 August 202430,508 minWeather
9 September 202529,569 minWeather
14 August 202427,913 minWeather
27 August 202324,475 minWeather
26 July 202619,130 minWeather
10 September 201917,446 minWeather
16 August 202415,581 minWeather

Questions

My flight from Palma de Mallorca on 28 July 2025 was delayed. Can I claim compensation?

If you arrived at your final destination 3 hours or more late, the starting position is £220 to £520 per passenger depending on distance. The airline can refuse only by proving extraordinary circumstances that affected your specific flight. Eurocontrol's record for this day does not show the kind of cause airlines usually plead, so a refusal on those grounds would be weak. Run the free check on your flight number for the verified answer.

Was the Palma de Mallorca disruption on 28 July 2025 caused by weather?

No. Eurocontrol logged no weather-coded delay at Palma de Mallorca on this day; the delay was attributed to aerodrome capacity.

Does a bad day at Palma de Mallorca mean every delayed flight is exempt from compensation?

No. Air-traffic delay attributed to an airport explains some of the day's lateness, not all of it, and it is the airline that must prove your flight's delay was caused by it and could not have been avoided with reasonable measures such as schedule buffers and spare aircraft. Flights delayed by a technical fault, crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft from an unaffected airport are compensable regardless of what happened at Palma de Mallorca.

Sources: Eurocontrol Performance Review Unit, airport arrival ATFM delay by cause (daily); METAR observations via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive. This page describes the airport's day; your flight's own record decides your claim. All Palma de Mallorca delay days.