The Balearic government has given final approval to the route of the new Servicios Ferroviarios de Mallorca (SFM) line, which will connect Palma with the airport and Llucmajor. The line will be 30 kilometres long, 10 of which will be underground, and will have 13 stations.
This was outlined on Wednesday by the Minister for Housing, Territory and Mobility, José Luis Mateo, at a press conference alongside the Director-General for Mobility, Lorena del Valle, and the Managing Director of SFM, José Ramon Orta. The new railway line, which is expected to be operational in 2032, will connect the Balearic capital with Llucmajor in 30 minutes, with Son Llàtzer Hospital in six minutes and with the airport in 12 minutes, terminating at a station to be integrated into Son Sant Joan.
“We want public transport to be an alternative to private transport,” stated the Minister, who believes this railway line represents “a decisive step” in this regard, whilst noting that railway infrastructure is a priority for the Government. The Director-General for Mobility explained that the new train line will have 13 stations – 10 of them in Palma and another three in Llucmajor – connecting residential and industrial areas as well as the airport.
The stations in Palma will be Conservatori, Son Costa, Miquel Dolç, Son Güells, Hospital Son Llàtzer, Coll d’en Rabassa, Aeroport, Son Oms, La Porcincúla and Bellavista-Ses Cadenes, whilst those in Llucmajor will be s’Arenal, Son Noguera and the station in the town centre itself. Furthermore, this line, for which 20 trains will be purchased, is expected to carry 8.5 million passengers each year, representing a 73% increase in passenger numbers on the Mallorcan rail network compared to the 11.6 million recorded in 2025.
Furthermore, the regional minister has confirmed that, at the current pace, the regional government maintains its forecast that work on the line between Palma and Llucmajor will begin in 2028. He also highlighted airport authority Aena’s willingness to finalise the location of the Palma Airport station, whilst del Valle added that the underground route will be feasible thanks to its construction using a tunnel boring machine.
Mateo explained that the first contracts for the drafting of the technical designs have already been put out to tender, with a base budget of around six million euros excluding VAT, and the bids are currently being evaluated. Specifically, the tender is for technical assistance in drafting the basic designs and construction plans for the works solely on the section from Palma to Llucmajor.
Regarding the extension of the line from Llucmajor to Campos, Del Valle stated that a new public consultation process would need to be launched and that it would be necessary to analyse alternative routes between Llucmajor and Campos once a provisional timetable for the execution of this section has been established.
In fact, the Llucmajor-Campos section features in the Balearic Islands’ Sectoral Mobility Master Plan, in force since 2019, as a second phase of the Migjorn corridor (Palma-Llucmajor-Campos). Asked about the other rail extensions, the minister assured that “work has not stopped and will not stop on any of the projects”, although he emphasised that the section to Llucmajor is the most ambitious project of its kind on the island since 2007, when the metro was completed.