Meals, hotel and transport
Where EU261 applies, meals and refreshments can become due after the relevant waiting threshold, with hotel accommodation and transport where necessary.
Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) disruption · 9 September 2026
Palma de Mallorca flight cancellations and delays after the 9 September storm
Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) recorded widespread flight cancellations and delays on 9 September 2026 as heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong wind affected Mallorca. More than 200 flights were delayed and 44 were cancelled in the reported Aena snapshot. Adverse weather can be an extraordinary circumstance under EU passenger-rights rules, so fixed compensation is not automatic, but care, reimbursement and rerouting rights remain separate questions.
Check my flight rights The short answer
Bad weather can affect compensation — not every passenger right
Adverse weather can be an extraordinary circumstance under EU passenger-rights rules. If the airline proves the weather caused the relevant disruption and that it could not have been avoided even with all reasonable measures, fixed compensation may not be due. Reimbursement, rerouting and care are separate rights.
Check the facts of my flight →What happened on 9 September 2026
Aena data reported after 17:00 local time showed more than 200 delayed flights and 44 cancellations at Palma: 118 departures delayed and nine cancelled, with at least 87 arrivals delayed and 35 cancelled. Aemet data reported at the airport included rainfall of up to 30 litres per square metre and wind gusts up to 65 km/h.
The operational totals above are a sourced snapshot, not a live status feed. A later flight can have a different cause or outcome.
If your Palma journey was affected, keep the airline's stated reason, your booking and actual journey outcome, plus itemised receipts for reasonable meals, accommodation or transport if required care was not provided. Do not assume that every disruption at Palma had exactly the same cause.
Refund, rerouting, care and compensation: check each right separately
These remedies are not interchangeable. A weak fixed-compensation case does not automatically mean there is no refund, rerouting, hotel, meal or care entitlement under the rules covering the journey.
Flight refund or rerouting
For a cancellation covered by EU rules, the airline must offer applicable reimbursement and rerouting choices.
Fixed compensation
A genuine adverse-weather cause can remove fixed compensation where the legal extraordinary-circumstances test is met.
If the airline says “weather”
Do not assume either that you definitely qualify or definitely do not. Preserve the evidence and ask the operating airline to identify the cause it relies on for your individual flight.
- Keep the booking confirmation, flight number and operating airline.
- Save delay or cancellation messages and the stated cause.
- Record the actual arrival or cancellation outcome.
- Keep itemised receipts for reasonable expenses.
- Keep evidence of any later airline-controlled problem separately from the original external event.
Check your actual disruption, not the headline
AeroDue uses the facts you provide to explain passenger-rights paths that may be relevant. It does not guarantee compensation or process claims itself.
My flight was delayed → My flight was cancelled →Weather disruption at Palma: what to check next
Confirm the current airline status first, then use the AeroDue checker with the actual delay or cancellation outcome and the reason the airline gives.
UK disruption is a separate incident
The NATS failure is legally and operationally distinct from the Mallorca weather event.
Read the UK NATS briefing →Questions passengers are asking
Does the Mallorca storm automatically mean I cannot get compensation?
No automatic conclusion should be made from the airport-wide event. The individual flight and cause still matter.
Do extraordinary circumstances remove meal or hotel rights?
No. Where EU passenger-rights rules apply, care is separate from fixed compensation.
Is this live Palma Airport status?
No. This is a source-backed passenger-rights briefing.
Sources used for this briefing
Operational figures and weather context are separated from EU passenger-rights guidance.
Europa Press / Aena data — Palma disruption, 9 September 2026
Europa Press / Aemet — severe weather across the Balearic Islands, 9 September 2026
Your Europe — EU air passenger rights, cancellations and delays
AeroDue provides passenger-rights intelligence and routes users to external resolution options. It does not operate airports, provide live flight status, process claims or guarantee compensation.