From Friday, the 14th of August, the Vila Baleira Hotels & Resorts Groups new Cascais to Porto Santo tourist initiative will commence.
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TAP- Air Portugal has cited 'commercial reasons' for their cancellation of flight TP2365, which was scheduled to leave Lisbon for Madeira at 5.30 pm this afternoon. As such, their 8.00 pm flight TP2366 from Madeira to Lisbon has also been cancelled.
On Sunday the 9th of August, a man fell from the Miradouro do Guindaste, in Faial. Minutes later his body was seen in the sea only to disappear.
A landslide occurred this week in the area between the Rancho cable car and the Cabo Girão viewpoint, in Câmara de Lobos.
Monitoring of the two artificial reefs created by the sinking of two Corvettes, the General Pereira d'Eça (CORCEIRA - Madeira) and Afonso Cerqueira (CORDECA - Porto Santo), is underway.
The President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, again justified the use of masks by saying that the exponential increase in positive cases of Covid-19 in Madeira does not surprise the Regional Government, which, for this very reason, they enforced the use of masks outdoors.
'It's a happy day for Madeira' quoted Eduardo Jesus, the Regional Secretary for Tourism and Culture as the first Jet2 flight from the UK landed since lockdown.
This morning the Municipal Firemen of Machico received an alert from a concerned member of the public saying that a car had been abandoned in the area of Ponta de São Lourenço, Caniçal.
The new mask wearing law is creating palpitations throughout the tourism sector, and tourism agency 'Trans Madeira' alerted local newspaper JM advising them that the “unclear and poorly communicated” mandatory use of the mask in open public spaces is already having a detrimental affect on the island's precarious tourism market.
The good news is that there is increasing evidence that Madeira is slowly beginning to recover from the pandemic as the latest information from the airport confirms that flights are expected to increase from 60 a week during July to a 140 per week in August.
Despite the reassuring words from the Health Secretary that compulsory mask wearing in all public spaces would not have an knock on effect for tourism, some companies have already reported client cancellations, due to the controversial mandatory mask wearing law being brought in this weekend.
The Portuguese Naval ship, (NRP) Tejo left its naval base in Lisbon this morning en-route to Madeira, where it will remain until the end of October.
CTT has confirmed that since the beginning of April this year they have increased their workforce with an additional 800 employees, most of whom are postmen/women.
Ever wanted to see what lies beneath the waves surrounding the Selvagens Islands (Savage Islands)? Then wait no more, as a fascinating new video shot this month highlights the marine life that has made sunken oil tanker, Morning Breeze their home. The vessel sunk sometime during the 70’s or…
A 2.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the south coast of Madeira this morning at 00:03 at a depth of ten kilometres.