ALBUQUERQUE: “I HAVE OVER 100 PEOPLE IN QUARANTINE, WE CAN’T WAIT ANY LONGER”

Tobi Hughes·
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Miguel Albuquerque guarantees that he only waits until tomorrow for a response from the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, about the request to close Madeira airport. “We will reevaluate until tomorrow”, he assures, indicating that there is no time to lose.

“I have 100 people in quarantine monitoring, we cannot wait any longer and our resources are limited,” he warned.

From JM

“EITHER CLOSE THE BORDERS OR THE VIRUS WILL SPREAD”, GUARANTEES ALBUQUERQUE.

The “safeguarding of public health supersedes freedom of movement”, affirms the President of the Regional Government, who guarantees that he respects the Constitution, but closing airports “is the only way to contain the virus”.

He added that they will wait for a response from the Government of the Republic on the closure of airports “until tomorrow”.

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17 Responses

  1. We are due to fly out tomorrow morning with Easy Jet. They are not cancelling flights which is absolutely ridiculous. If we cancel then we loose all our money !!

    2. You will not lose your money phone easyJet now. You can reschedule or cancel. You can should be able to do this online. Do not go to Maderia unless you are a resident.

  2. FCO website advises no travel to Madeira If I could attach a photo of their page I would but please go into Facebook for them Type in Madeira and info comes up. This should allow your travel insurance to kick in

  4. I arrived on Friday 13th before the quarantine and am due to fly back on Friday 20th. Will easyjet still be flying passengers back to the UK?

  5. We are in Machico. Waiting for Jet 2 to arrange flight home for us. We are due to leave next Friday 20th March. If the airports are closed how will we get home?

    1. I believe outgoing flights, like those to collect people will be allowed. Transavia for example advises people to book a flight back before 23rd march at the risk of being stranded because they stop flying between 23rd and 29th march

  6. easyjet cancelled are holiday departing on the 30th yesterday as fco advises no travel should get full refund as they promised us a full refund

  7. Yes I realise we won’t be able to leave our room for 14 days. We have cancelled with hotel etc but not flights. Easy jet are not cancelling their flights they are just offering alternative dates. We booked everything seperate. Does that make a difference on refund. ? We have emailed them quite a few times but on response.

    1. Transavia posted on their websites that they are cancelling flights to Portugal including Madeira between 23th and 29th March and are advising people to book a flight back before 23rd or you are running risk of being stuck. I am flying back on 21st so hopefully outgoing flights will be still allowed. I am on the island for the first time and I am loving it, as a solo traveler I am doing my best to not be a burden to anyone from the locals. I respect all the decisions and fully support it and I know I will come back here once the world is back to normal as now there is a lot of things that are closed and for good reasons. Also thank you for this blog, it’s an invaluable source of information and is appreciated!

  8. Due to fly out on Lufthansa for Frankfurt on Saturday March 21. I see that other airlines appear to be adding flights to repatriate customers but have heard nothing from Lufthansa and of course cannot get a customer rep on the phone. Am I correct to assume that outgoing flights will still be allowed. Politicians need to be more specific when they speak of closing airport.

  9. We are due to travel back to the UK on 23 March with Jet2. We are hoping they will put us on an earlier flight – is it true that there won’t be flights out on the 23rd?

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