{"id":37426,"date":"2026-06-09T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/37426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:51:15","slug":"spain-takes-aim-at-private-jets-mallorca-one-of-the-busiest-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/37426\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain takes aim at private jets: Mallorca one of the busiest airports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate\u2019s Committee on Transport and Sustainable Mobility has approved a motion by the senator for the Pitiusas Islands (Ibiza<\/a> and Formentera) , Juanjo Ferrer, to implement measures ensuring that private jet fuel is taxed in the same way as other fuels for private use.<\/p>\n

The proposal also envisages \u201cprioritising commercial aviation\u201d over private aircraft, particularly in the allocation of slots and other airport-related matters, as the senator stated in a press release. Ferrer explained that the measures aim to curb the most polluting and energy-intensive form of transport, as well as addressing the fact that this is a privileged sector where social inequalities are evident.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that Ibiza Airport, fowllowed by Mallorca<\/a>, has the highest volume of private jet traffic in Spain<\/a>. \u201cIt is true that total emissions<\/a> from private aviation account for only between 2 and 4 per cent of the sector\u2019s overall emissions (2012\u20132023), but these aircraft emit an average of two tonnes of CO2 per hour into the atmosphere, that is, 14 times more than the emissions of a standard commercial flight<\/a> or 50 times more than those of rail transport,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The senator also referred in his speech to the consequences of global warming<\/a> and climate change<\/a>. At the end of last year, the Spanish Prime Minister, announced that Spain will contribute an additional \u20ac45 million to the fight against climate change and offered his country\u2019s support to move forward on this path and address the risk posed by climate change deniers.<\/p>\n

He stressed that the climate emergency is killing people and that this is not ideology, but science. He said it is a shame that there are still those who deny or downplay its impact, although he acknowledged that \u2018no amount of empirical evidence, however overwhelming, is capable of changing the opinion of those who have chosen to blindfold themselves\u2019.<\/p>\n

He addressed those who do believe in science and \u2018have the moral courage to fight the battle\u2019, those who \u2018do not give up or regulate themselves out of political calculation or fear of being devoured by denialist forces.To all of them I want to say that they can count on Spain. And we do so out of moral conviction, because we honour our word, but above all because we believe in the green transition as an engine of growth and transformation,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Pedro S\u00e1nchez, has backed an initiative to create a new tax on first-class airline tickets and the use of private jets<\/a>. \u2018Spain is delivering,\u2019 said the Prime Minister, who provided data such as the \u20ac1.7 billion allocated last year to international climate finance. He also assured that Spain will continue to work with other countries to tax premium class flights and private jets because he believes it is fair that those who have more and pollute more should pay their fair share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate\u2019s Committee on Transport and Sustainable Mobility has approved a motion by the senator for the Pitiusas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[596,1254,1512,158,597,16233,598,9245,599,600,17891,17892,17,1394,357],"class_list":["post-37426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-airport","tag-balearics","tag-climate-change","tag-emissions","tag-flight","tag-global-warming","tag-holiday","tag-ibiza","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-pollution","tag-private-jets","tag-spain","tag-tax","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}