All of the United Kingdom’s main carriers which fly to the Balearics, and in particular Majorca, are going to be reducing the flights again this winter. But a further blow to the island has come this week with Air Berlin also announcing a 20 percent reduction in flights to the island.
Yesterday, while the President of the Balearics, Jose Ramon Bauza, admitted that the region needs a total rethink with regards to tourism in order to regain its position as a market leader, his opponents were demanding to know just what his government intends to actually do.
After making a huge effort last winter, Monarch, for example, is reducing its winter service as are all the low cost airlines.
Industry sources have told the Bulletin that they can not afford to put on flights if people quite simply “no longer want to go to Majorca in the winter. There’s little to do and most of the island and the hotels are closed.” The previous Socialist-led government created a special air routes commission to protect existing flight connections and open new ones to new markets, but the new Partido Popular administration appears to have done away with that. But, what the opposition and the tourist industry wants to know is what is their solution to a problem which is getting more severe every winter and leading to an ever shorter holiday season in Majorca. This year has been busy, if not profitable, but bookings for next summer already show Majorca’s got tough competition from all sides.Fuente: Daily Bulletin
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