The deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira today agreed that the situation surrounding Airport Ground Handling Company, Groundforce could spell disaster for Madeira and its economic recovery.
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The Porto Santo Line has issued a statement confirming that it will be operating additional services on Sunday the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of August.
While talking to journalists at the inauguration of MAMMA – Museum of Modern Art of Madeira, yesterday morning, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, confirmed that the current restrictive measures will remain in place, and if the numbers of positive cases continue to increase, he will not hesitate to introduce new restrictive measures.
The Republican National Guard (GNR), will continue their search for the Polish tourist, who went missing more than a week ago, in the mountainous region of Calheta.
As a precautionary measure during the pandemic, Azorean airline,SATA, withdrew their onboard meal service. However, they have confirmed that meals will return to some of their flights, and that these meals will based on traditional Azorean recipes and contain local produce.
The Ukraine flagship, Ukraine International Airline (UIA) made its maiden voyage from Kiev to Madeira yesterday. The airline, which has been in operation since 1992 will operate a weekly flight from its base at Kiev Boryspil Airport, from the 12th of July to the 21st of October, using a Boeing 737-800 series.
The brother of Michal Kozek Krzysztof, the Polish citizen who disappeared on Wednesday while out trail training has not given up hope, and has asked everyone to help him find his brother.
The search for the missing Polish trail runner, who has been missing since Wednesday has been suspended, and the case has now been handed over to the Public Security Police.
Yesterday morning, an appeal was posted on the social media network Reddit asking if anyone had seen Michal, a Polish citizen, who has formally been reported missing in Madeira. The message read:
A report recently released by media outlet Correio da Manhã, stated that a bird strike on an aircraft as it took off from Madeira International Airport in 2011 resulted in a lower cargo door malfunction (the door sprung open), which could have led to a 'catastrophic failure' resulting in the death of all 105 passengers and 7 crew members on board a SATA flight leaving Madeira for Copenhagen.
The Portuguese naval training ship, NRP Sagres, docked in Funchal harbour yesterday and will remain here until Sunday when it will leave for the Azores via Porto Santo. This is the ships first stop on its two and a half month voyage from Lisbon Naval Base. On board are 169, 3rd year cadets from the Naval School commanded by Captain António Camilo.
The incident over last weekend, where ten passengers who were travelling from Lisbon to Madeira were denied boarding at Lisbon Airport for not having a negative PCR test, has been called an 'absurd interpretation of the law, which will not be repeated again' by the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque.
Today, the 5th of July, a delegation from the Funchal Popular Youth (JP) of Funchal, visited the Interpretative Monte Train Centre in Largo da Fonte.
If it isn't one thing, it is another, as strong winds affected air traffic at the airport this afternoon. In many cases, it took pilots two or three attempts before they could land, while a later UK flight was forced to divert to Porto Santa, as it was still unable to land after the third attempt.