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TAP PLANE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF ‘OPEN’ AND MAKES FIRST LANDING OF THE DAY AT MADEIRA AIRPORT

Tobi Hughes26th May 2019

The flight TP 1699, coming from Lisbon, is the first to land at the airport today. The TAP plane, which landed at 9:32 am, took advantage of an 'open' and ma...

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Last of today’s flights still unable to land.

Tobi Hughes26th March 2019

Flights this evening from the mainland are still not able to land at the airport. At least 14 flights have diverted and 8 cancelled today, with strong winds ...

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Flights diverted this morning due to wind.

Tobi Hughes26th March 2019

Two flights from Porto, easyJet and TAP have both diverted back to mainland, due to the strong winds. Several other flights are trying to land, and looks as tho...

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A DIVERTED PLANE TO PORTO SANTO AND THREE WAITING TO LAND

Tobi Hughes5th March 2019

This is the balance at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport. Norwegian air flight DY1784, which still attempted to land, was the first to be diverted to Porto Santo due to...

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Airport Problems Continue

Tobi Hughes14th February 2019

At least 6 flights have now diverted, and the wind remains strong over the island. The problem could continue throughout the day and over the next two days l...

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Strong Winds at Madeira Airport

Tobi Hughes28th October 2018

Strong winds are affecting flights at the airport today, at least 5 flights are in a holding pattern trying to land at this moment....

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Albuquerque stays on the ground due to bad weather

Tobi Hughes8th August 2018

The president of the Regional Government was this afternoon unable to leave the Airport because of bad weather that made it impossible to travel to Porto Santo ...

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Strong Wind at Madeira Airport

Tobi Hughes7th August 2018

Having just come back from the airport, I can confirm the wind is blowing strong that side, and giving problems to the first flights in this morning which have ...

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Windy from tomorrow

Tobi Hughes13th May 2018

The IPMA warn if strong winds in the region from tomorrow. The winds will blow from the North East keeping temperatures well below average for the time of ye...

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Bad weather puts Madeira on Yellow and Orange Warnings

Tobi Hughes8th April 2018

The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) has issued a yellow warning to the island of Madeira related to the maritime unrest on the North Coast...

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Wind along south coast increases to orange warning

Tobi Hughes8th March 2018

Ipma have increased the warning from yellow to orange for wind along the south coast from midnight tonight till 9am tomorrow morning. The weather is due to w...

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Madeira on Red Alert Tomorrow/Closed Roads

Tobi Hughes27th February 2018

The Island will be on Red Alert tomorrow for strong seas in the south, and high winds in the mountain zones. The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmo...

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Warning Raised to Orange for Sunday

Tobi Hughes24th February 2018

The IPMA has raised the warning for Madeira to Orange for tomorrow. There will be heavy periods of rain with the possibility of thunder especially over the moun...

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Weather update

Tobi Hughes7th February 2018

All flights have só far been cancelled today, and I really can't see the few remaining flights from mainland coming today. All flights have been rescheduled fo...

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Weather Warning- Caution Advised

Tobi Hughes6th February 2018

Madeira is going to suffer bad weather over the next 48 hours with the whole island and Porto Santo on Orange alert from tomorrow morning. The wind is going to...

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Airport Update 10.30am

Tobi Hughes31st January 2018

As of now 10.30am nothing has yet landed at Madeira Airport. Easyjet Bristol didn't even attempt to land heading straight from the Canary Islands. Easyjet Gatwi...

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Airport Problems

Tobi Hughes9th November 2017

No flights have landed today after the Amsterdam flight this morning at 8.40. Being the busiest day for flights from Germany this is causing a lot of problems ...

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Wind causing lots of falling trees and branches

Tobi Hughes8th November 2017

The wind thankfully is not causing at problem at the airport, although it's very strong it's blowing straight down the runway, and not across it, so planes are ...

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A Warning For All Travelling Over The Next Few Days

Tobi Hughes6th November 2017

As I said in an earlier post the weather is not looking good over the next few days, especially for those who are travelling through the airport. There is a ye...

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Another day of chaos for passengers

Tobi Hughes4th October 2017

Another day at the airport, and another day of chaos for passengers. TAP have cancelled 3 flights this morning, these flights two from Lisbon and one from Port...

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