Chaos at Madeira Airport with queues and 17 cancelled flights

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The strong wind that is felt in the eastern part of the island of Madeira, continues to cause constraint in the operation of Madeira Airport.

According to information on the ANA Aeroportos website , this Wednesday, April 5th, 17 flights (eight arrivals and nine departures) have already been canceled, most of them coming from Lisbon.

At the same time, two other flights were diverted, the EZY8519, from easyJet, which headed to Porto Santo, where it remained at the end of this morning, as had already been reported. This was joined, at 15:02, by the FR 364 of Ryanair, coming from Dublin.

Added to the ‘diverted’ is the cargo plane, which also failed to land at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport, returning to Porto Santo.

As the DIÁRIO had reported, yesterday 16 flights were cancelled, between arrivals and departures at Madeira Airport.

From Diário Notícias

The EasyJet flight which diverted to Porto Santo, is still having a hard time landing from leaving Porto Santo a while ago.

 

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4 Responses

  1. It’s been a tiring stressful 2 days. Our flight out yesterday was cancelled due to technical problems with the plane. Our flights today were cancelled due to weather. We’re booked to fly to Lisbon tomorrow morning, but the Toronto flight is full so we have to overnight yet again in Lisbon tomorrow night & only have the Toronto flight on Friday. The airport has been packed for 2 days now. All the passengers were grumpy & the staff was overwhelmed.

  3. Easyjet London Gatwick morning flight was delayed, it sat at Porto Santo until 5.30pm, took off circled for a while then went to Porto on the mainland, but by 5pm planes were landing, and the afternoon gatwick flight came in and by this time we had been sent sms saying we were delayed until next day, but the staff on the ground didn’t get that message, and asked us to move so the afternoon passengers could board to go to London… Chaos, finally at 6.30pm we were called to the same gate, 2 lots of passengers all scrambling at the gate, we had to get past the confused afternoon folk to show our boarding passes, to be allowed to go back to boarder control to check back into Madeira, collect our bags, then join another queue to be allocated a hotel room, we finally, got to our hotel at 9pm, total madness..
    Easyjet head office telling a plane load of passengers their plane was canceled but not telling the ground crew, who can’t let you leave the gate until they get informed, that took over an hour… Then to have to scramble through folk who thought we were taking their seats and trying to stop us, as they thought we were also queue jumping was insane…

  4. Left Gatwick yesterday morning to arrive at Madeira. Flight couldn’t land so diverted to Porto Santos. Sat in airport lounge with no communication from EasyJet. Finally left at 5.45 pm and attempted to land twice but couldn’t do diverted to Porto for overnight stay. Hung around at airport waiting for coach to hotel but ended up getting cab as totally shattered at this point having been up since 5.00 am. Told coach would pick us up today for an 11.00 am flight, suffice to say we are still waiting to leave Porto!!!! Not happy Easter bunnies!!

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