Travel warning lifted: Tui is also expanding its range of flights to Mallorca

Travel warning lifted
Tui is also expanding its range of flights to Mallorca

After Mallorca is no longer listed as a corona risk area, travel bookings are increasing suddenly. What should please German travelers, however, triggers discomfort in the federal government and in Spain.

Despite calls from politics to refrain from unnecessary travel, the demand for Easter holidays in Mallorca is high. The travel company Tui has reported twice as many Mallorca bookings in the past few days as in the same period in 2019, before the corona pandemic. "We have therefore decided to double the offer for the Easter holidays and are now offering over 300 round-trip flights," said the managing director of Tui Germany, Marek Andryszak. The first Tuifly flights are scheduled to take off on March 21 in Hanover, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and, more recently, Stuttgart. From March 26th, Tuifly will now also be heading for the Balearic Island from Munich. The tour operator is also expanding its range of hotels in Mallorca.

The travel operator is following the advance of the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings, which is offering 300 additional flights to the holiday island for the Easter holidays. The company announced at the weekend that "previously scarce" Mallorca offers were "fully booked in no time".

Germans undesirable in Mallorca?

Last week, the federal government decided, among other things, to remove Mallorca from the list of corona risk areas and thus also to lift the travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office. Due to the new situation, Mallorca travelers no longer have to be in quarantine when they return to Germany from the Balearic island. When entering Spain, however, a negative corona test must be present.

The spokeswoman for the Foreign Office, Maria Adebahr, said of the update of the risk situation: "The absence of a travel warning is not an invitation to travel." But everyone has to make the decision for themselves.

Meanwhile, there is also criticism of the holidaymakers in Spain. For example, the "Mallorca Zeitung" writes: "Easter holidays on Mallorca: yes for Germans, no for Spaniards". The paper "Última Hora" spoke of "arbitrariness". The newspaper "ABC" ran the headline at the weekend: "At Easter, Spain will be a bunker for Spaniards and an oasis for tourists from abroad".

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