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==Regular Traffic== | ==Regular Traffic== | ||
During busy summer season almost every carrier in Europe flies to PMI. | During busy summer season almost every carrier in Europe flies to PMI. | ||
Winter is considerably less busy with pax numbers falling to a 10th of summer peak numbers. | |||
Winter is considerably less busy with pax numbers falling to a 10th of summer peak numbers. | |||
The single biggest carrier in PMI is Air Berlin for whom PMI is a hub airport. | |||
The single biggest carrier in PMI is Air Berlin for whom PMI is a hub airport. | |||
More details of airlines serving PMI can be found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Sant_Joan_Airport and the appropriate other languages. | More details of airlines serving PMI can be found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Sant_Joan_Airport and the appropriate other languages. | ||
===Runway usage=== | ===Runway usage=== | ||
Only runways 06L/24R and 06R/24L are used regularly; runway 06C/24C only serves as a taxiway nowadays (therefore some sources list 2, others 3 runways, but the aerial view reveals that that strip of concrete is still maintained as a runway). | Only runways 06L/24R and 06R/24L are used regularly; runway 06C/24C only serves as a taxiway nowadays (therefore some sources list 2, others 3 runways, but the aerial view reveals that that strip of concrete is still maintained as a runway). | ||
Unless there is construction work going on or in case of emergency closure of runway 06L/24R, runway 24L is not used for departures and 06R is not used for landings. This is in order to shield the village of C'an Pastilla from excessive aircraft noise (even now it gets loud there). | Unless there is construction work going on or in case of emergency closure of runway 06L/24R, runway 24L is not used for departures and 06R is not used for landings. This is in order to shield the village of C'an Pastilla from excessive aircraft noise (even now it gets loud there). The only execption I have witnessed sofar were military flights by a CASA turbo-prop. | ||
====Southwesternly operations==== | ====Southwesternly operations==== | ||
24L: arrivals only | 24L: arrivals only | ||
24R: primarily departures; sparse arrivals mainly by props from time to time | 24R: primarily departures; sparse arrivals mainly by props from time to time | ||
====Northeasternly operations==== | ====Northeasternly operations==== | ||
06R: departures only (strictly followed) | 06R: departures only (strictly followed) | ||
06L: arrivals; sparsely departures of props | 06L: arrivals; sparsely departures of props | ||