{"id":215467,"date":"2025-06-26T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215467\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:00:12","slug":"uk-travellers-warned-of-chaos-in-majorca-airport-as-roof-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215467\/","title":{"rendered":"UK travellers warned of &#8216;chaos&#8217; in Majorca airport as roof collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debris at the Spanish airport consisted of mostly glass, as the ceiling gave way.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_OSR_250625_MajorcaAirportCollapse.jpg\" alt=\"Debris on the floor of Palma Airport in Majorca\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The airport is the busiest in the region(Image: MJS\/SOLARPIX.COM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/whats-on\/travel-tourism\/uk-tourists-spain-bid-majorca-31910054\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Tourists were spookedLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tourists were spooked<\/a> when the roof collapsed in one of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/all-about\/spain-travel\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"busiest airports in SpainLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">busiest airports in Spain<\/a>. Palma Airport had emergency sirens wailing as part of a glass ceiling fell down in a busy area of the airport<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">C<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/all-about\/spain\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"onstruction work on the facade of the buildingLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">onstruction work on the facade of the building<\/a> continues, but the incident raises questions from the airport and tourists as to how it could have happened. In an initial analysis, Spanish airports authority AENA blamed the collapse on debris from ongoing construction work at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The debris is believed to have fallen onto a glass roof near the entrance to the baggage claim area, bringing it down next to a set of vending machines. An AENA spokesman told local press: &#8220;<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/all-about\/travel\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"People in charge of the airportLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">People in charge of the airport<\/a> are already analysing what happened in order to adopt the appropriate measures and to determine responsibilities if necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Airport workers said afterwards that it was a &#8220;miracle&#8221; no one had been seriously injured by the collapsing ceiling. Many stunned onlookers watched where the debris fell, as chaos was briefly brought to the popular airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An investigation into the incident is ongoing. This <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/whats-on\/travel-tourism\/balearic-islands-panic-food-drink-31816080\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"isn&#039;t the first incident at Majorca&#039;s busiest airportLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">isn&#8217;t the first incident at Majorca&#8217;s busiest airport<\/a>. In January, the fall of a panel amid poor weather conditions led to dust entering the terminal, triggering a number of complaints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One airport worker told local press at the time: &#8220;Neither employees or passengers could breathe and many people were slipping because of the dust on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Having to work in these sorts of conditions is disgraceful.&#8221; Another told Majorcan paper Diario de Mallorca: &#8220;Passengers had to put masks on because of the air contamination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Every year more than <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/lifestyle\/travel\/brits-heading-majorca-face-70-31645346\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"2.3 million British tourists holiday in MajorcaLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">2.3 million British tourists holiday in Majorca<\/a>, with capital city Palma standing strong as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/whats-on\/travel-tourism\/uk-tourists-spain-warned-major-31904813\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"one of the most popular tourist cities in the worldLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the most popular tourist cities in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debris at the Spanish airport consisted of mostly glass, as the ceiling gave way.The airport is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104,8879],"class_list":{"0":"post-215467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-spain-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114748851846941228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}