Palma is, geographically, right in the heart of the route network
Perhaps it’s splitting hairs, but Alicante based aircraft are closer to the Canaries, Faro and Funchal and has already proved its worth in the past to minimise EU261 compensations. Palma based aircraft would be better employed for launching rescue flights to the East. On the other hand maybe the Palma base has the object of
also providing flights to and from Germany that was mooted a few pages previously and which drew no further comment.