Barcelona and Palma Brace for Major Airport Protests This Weekend as Locals Voice Anger at Planned Expansions
Thousands of protesters will demand limits on airport growth, saying the plans will worsen housing pressure, overcrowding and environmental damage.
- Thousands took to the streets in Barcelona and Palma on Sunday, September 20, to protest airport expansion plans, organized under the slogan "No expansion, not now, not ever."
- The Spanish government recently approved airport operator Aena's 2027–2031 investment program, including €1.76 billion for Barcelona El-Prat, though transport minister Oscar Puente insisted the funding targets terminal reconfigurations.
- More than 210 social and environmental organizations, alongside 130 academics, backed the protest, arguing that growth damages the Llobregat Delta and reinforces an economy overly dependent on tourism.
- Mallorca tourism minister Jaume Bauza argued the plan goes "totally against" government policy, while Island president Marga Prohens called the forecast of nearly 50 million annual passengers a "frightening" prospect.
- Sunday's demonstrations were part of an international week of action spearheaded by the Stay Grounded network, as Joan Manuel del Llano of the Zeroport platform accused the Catalan and Spanish governments of "climate denialism.
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We are here to protest because we no longer want planes, more tourists, and we want the protected spaces to be green indeed. Laia Ferrer, 34 years old, environmental educator, speaks from the demonstration that Sunday has crossed the center of Barcelona to ask for the definitive stop to the plans of expansion of the airport of Barcelona-El Prat de Llobregat. With the slogan [...] The article Barcelona, in thousands in the procession against the …
Around 5,500 people participated in the Barcelona mobilization, while thousands more took part in rallies in Mallorca and Ibiza.
More than 5,000 people, according to the municipal police, marched on Sunday, 20 September in the streets of Barcelona to protest the plan to expand the airport. Protesters denounce an ecological and social aberration.
Some 5,500 people, according to the Guardia Urbana, have demonstrated this Sunday through the streets of the center of the Catalan capital to reject the expansion of the airport Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat considering that it would aggravate the climate crisis and accentuate the massive tourism that the city suffers.Continue reading...
The protest was formally supported by more than 210 civil society entities, environmental groups and some 130 academics.
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