Action to end airport chaos blighting one of the Mediterranean's most popular resorts has been demanded to avoid services 'collapsing.' Passengers landing at Palma de Mallorca airport from the UK have reported stressful queues and long waits to get through passport control and lengthy flight delays for arrivals and departures.
There have been calls for more National Police officers to be deployed to help ease delays and process passport queues more quickly as peak summer season arrives. The Balearic islands hotel federation has already demanded that Majorca's Operation Summer, designed to cater for the surge in holidaymakers, begins this month instead of waiting until July 1.
Delays are also causing problems for transport operators, while tour operators are also calling for urgent solutions to deal with issues facing UK visitors. Spain's airport authority Aena has pledged 500 more officers to be deployed from this Friday (June 20), with 50 heading to Palma and others scheduled to help at holiday airports, such as Ibiza, Alicante, Malaga, Valencia, Menorca, Ibiza, Tenerife South, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.
