Nice to Palma de Mallorca is about 1 h 09 in the air over 589 km, Nice Cote d'Azur to Palma de Mallorca, flown on a light to midsize jet. From €5 200 for the whole aircraft, one way. Send the dates and a written quotation follows within 30 minutes; the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
South-west off the Riviera and onto Mallorca in a little over an hour. The hour in the air is the simple part. What shapes the day is the far end: Palma is one of the largest holiday-charter airports in Europe, and in the peak weeks the arrival slot, the handling window and somewhere for the aeroplane to stand are all harder to come by than the aeroplane itself.
REQUEST A QUOTETwo airports near the top of European business aviation with almost nothing else in common. Nice recorded 37,425 business-aviation movements in 2023, second in Europe behind Paris Le Bourget, and it works twelve months of the year; Palma recorded 17,504 and does the great majority of its business inside four. What fills this direction is villas, houses and boats rather than meetings - Mallorca is a property island, and the traffic runs out towards the west coast and the Serra de Tramuntana for a week, a fortnight or a whole season. Flown out to the south-west you also have the upper winds against you more often than behind you, which is one reason the crossing out can run a few minutes longer than the crossing home; the published figure below is direction-neutral and takes no view on that.
One obvious field at each end, and two things worth knowing about the edges of that. On the French side there is a second airport twenty-four kilometres west - a separate airport, not a second terminal of Nice. On the Spanish side there is a second island, which is a different question again. The arrival is the row to read with your dates in front of you.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nice Cote d'Azur | NCE / LFMN | 589 km | The default departure, and the reason short notice so often works on this sector. With 37,425 business-aviation movements in 2023 it is the second busiest business-aviation airport in Europe behind Paris Le Bourget, which is another way of saying that on most days a suitable aeroplane is already here. Business traffic is handled in a terminal of its own, separate from the scheduled one. |
| Cannes Mandelieu | CEQ / LFMD | measured separately | Twenty-four kilometres west of Nice, and a different airport rather than a second terminal of it: its own codes, its own handling and its own limit on aircraft size. The right departure if the party is already on the Croisette or in the Golfe-Juan marinas. The 589 km on this page is measured from Nice Cote d'Azur, so tell us early if you want to leave from Mandelieu and we will measure your sector from there and check the aeroplane against the field rather than let you assume it is the same flight. |
| Palma de Mallorca | PMI / LEPA | arrival | Where the sector ends. Palma is one of the largest holiday-charter airports in Europe and business aviation has a general aviation terminal of its own there - but the runway, the arrival slot and the general aviation stands are shared with all of that package traffic. From July onwards the binding constraint on this route is the stand and the handling window rather than the supply of aircraft, and if the aeroplane cannot stay it leaves again after dropping you, which is a price question as much as an operational one. |
| Ibiza | IBZ / LEIB | arrival alternative | Part of the party is going to the other island instead. We publish Nice to Ibiza as a route of its own, and in high season it is often easier to build both islands into one aircraft day than to book two separate hops - though Ibiza is tighter than Palma for parking, not looser. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Movement counts: EBAA 2023 via Private Jet Card Comparisons, 4 June 2024.
589 km asks nothing of any of these aeroplanes, so range never enters the argument. Going out at the start of a stay, the luggage does: villa bags, boat bags and a fortnight's worth of everything else fill a small hold long before they fill the seats. Tell us what is travelling with you before you tell us which type you would like.
Six to eight passengers, a 2.27 cubic metre hold and 3,650 km of range - six times what this sector needs. It is the default type on Balearic hops and the one most likely to be free at Nice at a day's notice in July, which is why it is the usual answer to a late outbound.
See the Embraer Phenom 300 ›Seven to eight passengers, a stand-up cabin and 2.55 cubic metres of hold. The right aeroplane when the party is moving out properly rather than travelling light, and the one that ends the luggage conversation before it starts.
See the Cessna Citation XLS+ ›Often simply the aeroplane that is already in the Balearics, which on a sector of this length is the thing that matters most: positioning a jet in from somewhere else can cost more than the crossing itself.
See the Cessna Citation Bravo ›All three types are on our own fleet pages. If the party or the luggage is larger we arrange a midsize cabin on this sector as well.
From €5 200 one way. Indicative starting price for this route, rounded down. The date, the aircraft actually available and airport fees move it — tell us your dates and we confirm within 30 minutes.
No published price for Nice to Palma de Mallorca has reached us from a source we would be willing to reprint, so the figure above is a floor rather than a quotation. It is not a guess either: our own published starting prices at the distances either side of this one are €5 000 at 547 km and €5 200 at 603 km, and 589 km sits on the same step of that curve.
What moves the real number on this route is the aeroplane's day rather than your flight, and here the decisive question is whether it can stay. Palma has a general aviation terminal, but its general aviation stands are the scarce commodity in July and August, not aircraft - so a jet that carries you out is quite likely to drop you and leave again, with another party aboard if we can arrange it and empty if we cannot. Either way that second leg sits in your price, which is why the same crossing can be quoted two very different ways inside one week, and why we ask what you are doing after you land rather than only where you are going. Then comes the day: a Friday or Saturday out is the movement the whole of northern Europe wants in season, and a Tuesday in the same week is a different market. Then the hour. Palma works in waves, and a midday arrival is usually easier to obtain than one in the morning or evening rush - if your day can move by an hour, say so at the enquiry, because on this route that flexibility is frequently worth more than anything else you can offer us.
Read from the outbound end this route has one long season with a very sharp peak inside it, and the weeks that cause trouble are the school holidays - when the whole of northern Europe wants the same island on the same Saturday.
| Period | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| May | Mallorca is open, the weather has turned and the airport is still calm. Owners come out to open houses for the summer before the crowds arrive, and aircraft are being positioned into the Mediterranean anyway. | The easiest month of the season to book. A week or two of notice is usually plenty, and this is when an empty leg going your way is most likely to exist. |
| June and September | Full season without the worst of the congestion, and the two months EUROCONTROL's analysis identifies as the genuine annual peaks of European business flying. | Two weeks for a weekend crossing. Ask us to fix the Palma arrival slot as soon as your day is settled, and ask about a weekday instead - the saving in both time and money is real. |
| July and August | Maximum pressure at both ends at once. On the island it is the general aviation stands and the handling windows that run out rather than the aeroplanes, and a party that reaches the terminal late can lose a slot rather than just an hour. | Four to six weeks, and more for the middle fortnight of August. Ask what the aircraft does after it has dropped you - on this route that answer is part of the price rather than a detail. |
| October to April | The island empties and the fleet repositions north towards the UK and the Alps for the winter. Nice keeps working the whole year, but very little of it goes to the Balearics. | Short notice is entirely realistic and the aeroplane will not be the difficulty. It is also the best window in the year for an empty leg in either direction. |
Seasonality classification: routes_shortlist.csv, Diamond Executive Aero Services route research, 23 August 2026. June and September peaks: EUROCONTROL, "Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe", Trends in Air Traffic vol. 1. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
Landing on Mallorca is rarely the end of the plan. Palma is the hub of the Balearics: the other island is minutes away in the air, the mainland is a short sector, and both can go on the same aircraft if we know before the day.
One of the shortest hops we operate, and the usual answer when part of the group is on the other island or joining a boat there. Ibiza is tighter than Palma for parking in season, so plan it with us rather than on the day.
Palma de Mallorca to Ibiza ›Barcelona is a short sector from Palma and the natural continuation if the trip turns into business, or if you want a night in the city before going home.
Palma de Mallorca to Barcelona ›If part of the party is coming from England rather than the coast: London to Palma de Mallorca is 1,391 km and about 2 h 10, and it is the way most of our Mallorca passengers arrive.
London to Palma de Mallorca ›Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.