Spain boosts its air connectivity with Europe and Asia this summer
The summer season arrives with increased services and new destinations from Asia and major European capitals
During the 2025 high season, running from April to October, Spain will see a significant boost in air connectivity with European and Asian destinations, as several airlines increase their services, restore seasonal routes, and launch new connections. Enhanced European connectivity from multiple Spanish airports easyJet has reopened its seasonal bases in Palma, Málaga, and Alicante, offering nearly 7 million seats—a 10% increase on 2024. These include five additional routes from Palma de Mallorca to Leeds Bradford, Milan Linate, Palermo, Strasbourg, and Zurich; two new connections from Alicante to Naples and Athens; and new flights from Málaga to Leeds Bradford, Newcastle, Marrakesh, Rabat, and Zurich. Volotea is launching a new weekly route from Palma de Mallorca to Rodez (France) starting July 2, with flights every Wednesday and 18 services scheduled until the end of the year. Air France will operate flights from Paris to Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza this summer, routes not served in the winter season. Iberia will add four additional weekly flights to Paris, bringing this route up to a total of 11 direct flights per day. Connections to Rome will also be boosted with five additional weekly flights, offering between six and seven daily services depending on the day of the week. Services to Catania, Olbia, Cagliari, and Palermo will also resume operations this season.
Brussels and Vienna will each be connected with two additional weekly flights, taking them up to a total of four direct flights per day. On June 7, flights to Ponta Delgada in the Azores will resume with three weekly services. From Madrid, 36 weekly flights will travel to Lisbon, 28 to Porto, and up to five per week to Funchal and Faro. The airline will also resume flights to Tirana (Albania) in June and to Ljubljana on July 27, with two weekly flights to each destination. Starting in June, direct flights will be available to Santorini and Mykonos (with five to six weekly services each), as well as Corfu, which will see its connections increase to seven weekly flights in August. Meanwhile, services to Athens will rise to 30 weekly flights. Finally, Iberia will once again begin flying to Dubrovnik, Zagreb, and Split. As for Air Europa, this airline launched its Madrid–Prague flights on March 30 through a codeshare with Smartwings, offering one daily service. Greater connections to Asia from Madrid Iberia, which offered no direct flights to Japan last summer, will maintain its Madrid-Tokyo route this year on three weekly flights (Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays) from April to October, with over 63,000 seats available. The daily direct flight between Madrid and Doha will also continue to run. Qatar Airways has increased its weekly flights between Madrid and Doha from 14 to 17 services, starting on June 1 this year. Cathay Pacific will also expand its services, operating four direct weekly flights from Barcelona and Madrid to Hong Kong between July and the end of October. Sichuan Airlines, the Chinese carrier, began operating a direct route between Chengdu and Madrid this April, with four weekly flights—adding to Hainan Airline’s two weekly flights launched in late 2024 between the Spanish capital and Shenzhen, China's technology hub. Last year, Air China also restored its connection between Shanghai and Barcelona, operating three flights per week. By summer 2025, travelers will enjoy 61 direct weekly flights between China and Spain—almost double the number in 2019—with an increase in seat capacity compared to the previous year.