Another Monday of Chaos for Madeira Airport

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Nothing has been able to land since 9.30an, so 14 flights are still in the air, and at least 5 have diverted.

The weather should start to clear now, so fingers crossed flights will start to land very soon.

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11 Responses

  1. This is increasingly becoming a regular event, and is causing massive inconvenience to residents and tourists alike.

      1. Well there is something tourists can do and that is vote with their feet. Awful for the island but it is becoming ever more problematical to land at Madeira during poor weather. People will start looking at other destinations that have no problems with bad weather landings.

        2. People who do not want to get affected by these phenomena have been choosing other destinations for the past…60 years? It is what it is. People who have bad experiences may not return, other will and there will be first time visitors aswell. It has always been like that.

    2. I have been visiting the island since 1980 , long before the airport was extended and have never had an issue with landing yet?

  2. Well since starting to fly into Madeira I have had a 50% success rate,and will keep returning until the day I am returned to the UK without landing somewhere ie Canaries or Porto,,
    It’s a wonderful welcoming Island..

    1. First flew into Madeira 1968, with TAP from Heathrow, via Lisbon, when the runway was the original length. I believe only TAP flew into Madeira then, hence the change of aircraft in Lisbon. From memory it used to take about an hour to get into Funchal, no tunnels then and most roads cobbled. Since then I have made more than 60 trips, with overnight stops in Lisbon, Oporto and Tenerife, three in all, one wait, for an hour in Porto Santo and at a guess five fly rounds. If I was forced to fly back to the UK, would I look for another destination. Nah.

  3. We have been to Madeira four times and never had a problem landing either on time or early. Perhaps we have just been lucky.

  4. Came at Christmas and got diverted to Tenerife with an overnight stop. Arrived this Monday after being diverted to Lanzarote. We have been coming for many years love the people of Madeira so will this deter us, no chance we leave next Monday but already booked for Christmas and New Year.
    Trevor & Linda

  5. Hi, we flu to Madeira on 4th April 2022, we had 5 aborted landing with a refuel at Pota Santa. While we were refuelling two passengers left our flight before we took off again to try and land. We eventually landed on 6th attempts. I was greatfull to our Pilot who was skilled at his job. There was talk to divert to Tenerife and to come back the next day to try again. ?
    The next flight behind us had to abort and
    Didn’t land.

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