At Eurowings, only a few hours after the Robert Koch Institute removed the Balearic Islands and Azores from the risk list, the Mallorca flights are said to have been fully booked around Easter. The carrier now puts on 300 additional connections.

According to Eurowings, the Palma offer from Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne / Bonn is particularly popular. At the weekend, the airline launched 300 additional flights for the beginning of the Easter travel season alone in order to be able to meet the rapidly growing customer demand. The Lufthansa subsidiary had to use larger aircraft to Palma for the first time since the crisis last week in order not to leave customers ready to take off.

The extended Mallorca program can already be booked and will be topped up with the first additional flights to Palma from Thursday, March 18. The sudden incoming bookings and the corresponding additional flights are spread across the whole country: They affect the airports in Düsseldorf and Cologne / Bonn in the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, but also Hamburg in the north and Stuttgart in the south of the country. Eurowings has also reported a surge in bookings from other departure airports since Friday noon.

Negative PCR test required for entry into Spain

The subsidiary Eurowings Europe maintains an international base in Palma and connects the Mediterranean island with 22 different airports in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the summer season. From the end of May, Eurowings will also be flying British holidaymakers from Manchester and Birmingham to Mallorca for the first time.

“Together with other airlines in the Lufthansa Group, we are expanding our range of flights with all due caution. In doing so, we strictly adhere to our industry-wide leading hygiene concepts, ”said Eurowings boss Jens Bischof, who met with the head of government of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, on Friday.

Germany allows people who have stayed in Mallorca, among others, to enter the country without a test or quarantine. Spain, on the other hand, continues to require a negative PCR result. This must be checked by the airlines. Those who cannot show this are not allowed to fly.