After a morning without any major constraints, this afternoon air movement to and from Madeira International Airport has been strongly affected by adverse weather conditions, namely the wind that has already blown at up to 73 km/h near the runway in Santa Cruz.
By 3 pm, three planes bound for Funchal had diverged to Porto Santo (Ryanair flight from Lisbon), to Lisbon (easyJet flight that returned to its origin), and to Faro (Ryanair flight from Porto).
The latter has already been reported as canceled (arrival and departure), bringing the number of canceled flights in today’s schedule to 18. Between arrivals and departures, TAP canceled six flights to and from Lisbon yesterday, the German Condor canceled this morning the five flights that were supposed to arrive throughout the day from five cities in Germany, in addition to the five return trips also canceled.
Even so, until noon, the time when the window of opportunity closed, Madeira Airport recorded 24 movements (11 arrivals and 13 departures).