Buses from Palma Airport: which lines exist, and where they do not go

Which buses actually leave Palma Airport in 2026?

Eight lines, and only eight. Two of them are city buses run by EMT Palma, the A1 and the A2. The other six belong to the island network, TIB, and carry the AeroTIB brand: A11, A32, A33, A42, A43 and A51. There is no train at the terminal, no metro and no direct coach to the eastern resorts. All of them use the same bus station on the arrivals floor: you leave the hall through one of the doors numbered 1 to 7, follow the covered walkway, cross at the lights, and the stops are on the right. Our drivers stand in that arrivals hall every day of the season, and the walk out to those stops is a good deal longer than it looks once you are carrying two large cases each.

Those fares are the cash single ticket bought from the driver, per person. TIB prices by zone jumps rather than kilometres, from 3€ for a short hop to 13.50€ at the four-jump cap, and a contactless bank card is noticeably cheaper than cash. TIB also rebuilds its timetables twice a year, so confirm your line for your landing date at tib.org.

Is there a bus from Palma Airport to Santa Ponsa?

Yes, line A11, and as of 2026 it runs all year instead of shutting down in winter. It is the single most useful bus at the airport, because one route covers the whole Calvià coast: Bendinat, Portals Nous, Son Caliu, Palmanova, Magaluf, Santa Ponça, Peguera and Camp de Mar. Santa Ponça sits at roughly 55 minutes from the terminal, and the winter service alone has about 26 departures a day, with the first bus out of Peguera at 04:40 and the last one leaving the airport at 22:30.

The honest caveat is what those stops mean in practice. Every resort before yours adds a wait, the bus sets you down on the main road rather than at reception, and in July and August the A11 regularly pulls away full with people standing next to their suitcases. If that is your arrival, a private transfer to Santa Ponsa from 94€ is priced per car rather than per seat, which changes the maths for anyone travelling in a group.

How do you get from Palma Airport to Palmanova or Magaluf?

The same A11, with Palmanova at about 40 minutes and Magaluf a few minutes further along the coast. The cash fare is around 6.75€ per person, less with a bank card. It is worth knowing that the A11 is the airport line, not the city one: if you later want to travel between Palmanova or Magaluf and central Palma, that is TIB lines 104 and 105, which run to the Estació Intermodal and have nothing to do with the terminal.

For a family of four with hold luggage, four A11 tickets already cost about 27€ each way, and you still arrive at a roadside stop. A transfer to Palmanova from 84€ or to Magaluf from 91€ covers the whole vehicle, door to door, with the price locked when you book.

How much is the airport bus to Palma, and is it free in 2026?

Five euros one way, eight euros for a prepaid return, and no, the free-travel scheme does not reach these two lines. The A1 leaves for the centre every 12 to 15 minutes and takes about 20 minutes to Plaça d’Espanya, which is also where the Estació Intermodal, the metro and the Sóller train live. The A2 runs every 25 to 30 minutes along the beach strip to Can Pastilla, Platja de Palma and S’Arenal, about 32 minutes end to end.

The 2026 headline is real but narrower than it sounds: TIB buses, train and metro are free for holders of the Intermodal or Única card, while cash and bank-card fares stay exactly as they were, and the EMT airport lines keep their own 5€ price. As a visitor arriving for a week, you pay. For one or two people heading into the city, that is still unbeatable value, and Palma from 68€ only makes sense when you are a group, arriving late or carrying a lot.

Is there a direct bus to Alcúdia, Can Picafort or Cala Millor?

In summer yes, in winter partly, and the fare is the same 13.50€ for all of them. The A32 started on 15 March 2026 and runs to Port d’Alcúdia in about an hour, Platja de Muro in an hour and ten, and Can Picafort in an hour and a half, going the long way round through Inca and sa Pobla. In winter it shrinks back to the A33, which stops at Port d’Alcúdia. On the east coast the A42 opened on 24 March 2026 and reaches sa Coma in an hour and ten, Cala Millor in an hour and twenty and Cala Bona in an hour and thirty-five, with the winter A43 stopping short at Manacor.

Set against a private car covering the same ground in around 50 minutes to Alcúdia from 153€ or 70 minutes to Cala Millor from 182€, the bus is the cheap option and clearly so. It is also the slow one, and the gap widens with every extra passenger and every extra bag. That 50 minutes is our own operating figure for the Ma-13, a road we have driven in every month of the year since 2017.

What about Cala d’Or and Port de Sóller?

Neither has an airport bus, in any season, and this is where the forums mislead people. For Cala d’Or from 161€ the public route is the A1 to the Estació Intermodal followed by TIB line 515e, which realistically eats most of an afternoon. For Port de Sóller from 135€ you take the A1 to Plaça d’Espanya and then either TIB bus 204, about 45 minutes and roughly every half hour, or the wooden Sóller train and its tram, which is a hundred-year-old excursion rather than a transport link, as we set out in our guide to the Palma to Sóller train.

Luggage, the last bus and landing at night

Neither operator publishes a luggage allowance for the airport lines, which is itself the answer. The AeroTIB coaches have a hold and cope well with two large cases per couple. The A1 and A2 are city buses with racks by the doors, and on a summer afternoon those racks are full long before the bus is. The last departures matter more: the A1 keeps going past midnight, the A2 stops around 23:20, and the TIB airport lines finish at roughly midnight. A flight that lands at 00:40, or one delayed into that slot, has no bus to any resort. Those 01:00 arrivals are among the ones we handle most, and because we track every customer’s flight a delay moves the pickup time rather than leaving anyone on the kerb.

If your resort has no bus, the next step up is a taxi from the rank: our guide to official taxi fares from Palma Airport estimates the meter for every resort, and the distance table for all 41 destinations tells you how far you are going in the first place.

When is a pre-booked transfer the better call?

Four situations, and they are the ones our drivers see every day. Groups, because a bus charges per seat while a transfer charges per car, so four or six people flip the comparison entirely. Night arrivals, because the last AeroTIB has gone and the taxi rank at 01:00 in August is its own kind of queue. Luggage, because golf bags, buggies and three cases each do not fit the racks. And children, because a sleeping toddler plus a 55-minute bus with eight stops is a bad trade at the end of a travel day.

If you are two people with hand luggage heading to Palma, Palmanova or Playa de Palma in daylight, take the bus. It is cheap, it is frequent enough and it works. The rest of the time, the honest comparison is not 5€ against 94€, it is four or six fares plus a wait plus a walk against one car that is already there when you land.

Ramon (Asen) Pons Miralles

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