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Palma de Mallorca delays on Thursday, 6 November 2025

Eurocontrol logged 1,257 minutes of air-traffic arrival delay at Palma de Mallorca that day across 27 arrivals held 15 minutes or more out of 183 (15% of the day's arrivals), with 55% of the delay attributed to special event. That makes it the 167th worst day at Palma de Mallorca since January 2019.

Eurocontrol record · LEPA · 2025-11-06

ATFM arrival delay1,257 min
Arrivals held 15+ min27 of 183
Special event697 min · 55%
Weather560 min · 45%
Weather observed (METAR)MARGINAL
Lowest visibility · max gust7,998 m · 20 kt
PhenomenaThunderstorm

Delay codes are Eurocontrol's IATA-standard causes. 45% 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 special event, 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

Barcelona5,494 minWeather
Amsterdam Schiphol2,423 minAerodrome capacity
Zürich1,783 minWeather
Marseille Provence1,673 minATC equipment
Munich1,606 minWeather
Copenhagen Kastrup1,434 minATC staffing
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen1,045 minAerodrome capacity
Lisbon878 minWeather
London Gatwick848 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 6 November 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 6 November 2025 caused by weather?

Partly or wholly: 45% of the 1,257 logged minutes were coded as weather. The airport's own weather observations that day show thunderstorm, lowest visibility 7998 m and strongest gust 20 kt.

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.