Last year, Ibiza airport handled the landing of the following passengers a total of 6,504 private aircraft known as jets, which places it as the second destination in Spain for this type of transport only behind Mallorca, whose aerodrome accounted for 7,502 arrivals.
These data have been published in a report commissioned by the environmental organization Greenpeace to analyze the environmental impact of private jets flying to vacation destinations across Europe. AENA, the public company that manages the country’s airports of general interest, has been operating for some time now, does not provide data on the operations of this type of aircraft the company does not provide data on the operations of this type of aircraft[]apparently because of the strong social response they provoke due to their footprint on the environment.
Greenpeace, in its report, entitled ‘Luxury tourism and its impact’, puts the focus on air travel in this type of luxury aircraft due to the fact that a private jet flight, they point out, “emits ten times more CO2 per passenger than a conventional commercial aircraft”.
In fact, it is estimated that each private jet holiday flight pollutes in terms of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere as much as a European citizen in all their activities for a year.
Indeed, es Codolar’s facilities would be among the most polluting in the country. “The percentage of CO2 from seasonal flights far exceeded 40% in all airports analyzed in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and the highest percentage occurred in Ibiza and Menorca (68% each)”. This means, warn from Greenpeace that, for example, at Ibiza airport, 68% of the CO2 emissions of the jets private jets were generated during four months in summer.
In recent years, Greenpeace points out, Spain has become the second European destination for private jet flights, with 23% of the total, just behind France, which accounts for 23.5%.
Three Spanish airports are among the top five with the most traffic of this type in Europeonly behind Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland) Mallorca, Ibiza and Malaga.
Ibiza, fourth European destination for jets
In addition, Ibiza’s es Codolar airport is the fourth destination in Europe in terms of jet arrivals, behind Nice (France, with 16,511), Geneva (Switzerland, with 14,937) and Mallorca, which last year accumulated 7,502 arrivals of these private aircraft.
And the most frequented international route by jets heading to a Spanish holiday destination “was the one between Nice (Paris) and Ibiza, with 317 flights”. “The second and third most frequented private jet routes were between Nice and Palma de Mallorca, with 260 flights, and between Paris and Ibiza, with 248 flights,” the report added.
The report also found numerous very short-haul flights. “The flight between the islands of Ibiza and Majorca was the most popular very short-haul flightwith 692 flights between the two islands (363 flights from Palma to Ibiza and 329 from Ibiza to Palma),” it is detailed.
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