Denmark – Madeira Flights Back ; Armas €2m Losses ; TAP In London
‘Armas Making Losses – The regional government has already granted half a million Euros in support, €28 per passenger disembarking’. “Scammed”, the Spanish ferry company that owns and operates the...
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Madeira Palácio Needs €60m ; SATA Goes To Poland ; More Tax Payers In 2008
(3rd June). ‘Recommencement Of Work On Madeira Palácio Hotel Dependent On Financing Of €60 Million – Administrator of Fibeira assures that whatever the outcome, the process will be completed in the...
View ArticleNew Gun Laws ; Venezuela Flight Returns
(6th June). ‘Crimes Using Weapons With Tougher Sentences – New Law on Weapons enters into force today’. The new gun laws, which toughen the punishment for crimes using guns, comes into force today,...
View ArticleJackpot Rumbled ; Watch Out For Communists! ; Flight News & Bad Flight News
(10th June). Today’s main news headline : ‘Veto Of Cavaco Affects Jackpot – The President of the Republic gives back to parliament the finance law of the political parties. Cavaco Silva contests in a...
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Rats In Cancela ; Cape Verde Route Cancelled ; Poor Dine Free ; New...
(26th June). ‘Cancela Is A Rats Nest – There are prisoners who complain to the guards about rats in the cells’. A plague of rats is ravaging the zone around the prison in Cancela. The situation is not...
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Armas Ferry Has GR Support ; New Air Routes ; PSD Party Leader Visit ; Azores...
(14th July). ‘Jaime Ramos Confirms The Presence Of Ferreira Leite in Chão da Lagoa – PSD expect the greatest turnout ever from the Madeirans’. Manuela Ferreira Leite will be at the annual festival...
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Armas Reprieve ; Porto Santo In Low ; Whales Sightings Soaring ; New Flight...
(19th July). ‘IPTM overcomes injunction to continue the operation of the ‘Armas’ in the Port of Funchal Decision delivered in the Court of Lisbon Circle’. The Institute for Port and Maritime Transport...
View ArticleHotel Prices Drop & Mixed Fortunes In Occupancy ; Northern Europe Promotion
(2nd August). The last of today’s headline stories : ‘Bernardo Trindade Pulls Out His Election Agenda Today – Meeting with ex-members of parliament in São Bento; Luísa Clode Araújo is chosen as the...
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"Thank & Repay" Jardim ; Lugar de Baixo … The Fairytale ; Port Taxes May...
(5th August). ‘PSD Delivers Lists For The Câmaras Of São Vicente And Porto Moniz – Jorge Romeira selects social matters and quality of life as his priorities’. The social democrats of Madeira yesterday...
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PIB / GDP Surprises Most, But Not Jardim ; Unemployment Worsens ; TAP Cut-Backs
(14th August). Today’s main news headline : ‘Slowing Of The Crisis Surprises ACIF – The opinions were divided yesterday in the country on the meaning of the increase in PIB (GDP / Growth) of 0.3%. For...
View ArticlePorto Santo ‘No Pals’ ; Russians Trickle In
(26th August). Today’s main news story : ‘Operators Abandon – Of the various agents, just the Italian is able to continue operating on Porto Santo. The situation with the hotels becomes complicated....
View ArticleTAP Strike Tomorrow ; Hotels Maintain Staffing ; Free Banking More Common
(27th August). ‘Passenger That Travel On 28th And 29th Need To Check Before Going To The Airports – ANA-Airports of Portugal appeals to passengers to contact the airlines and travel agents’. The first...
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Promotion Well Received ; Ryanair To Madeira?
(29th August). ‘Game Of Nacional Was A Success In All Ways – The newspaper promotion is St. Petersburg was well accepted amongst the travel agents’. Not was it only a sporting success, said Bernardo...
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TAP In Critical Time ; Hotel Bookings Improve
‘Parpública Says That TAP Is In A Critical Situation’. The TAP airline group has a negative equity of €247.2 million, up from €171.7 million at the end of 2008, as shown in the half-yearly accounts....
View ArticleMore Venezuela Flights ; Record For Lobo Marinho ; National Tourism Bears Fruit
(2nd September). ‘Promotions in the Portuguese market "are yielding good fruit" – Tourism bucks the national trend with the number of visitors from the mainland rising 34%’. The regional director of...
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Airport Traffic Encouraging ; Bernardo Collars O’Leary ; Hospital & Gardens...
(4th September). ‘Movements Grow In The Airport – Madeira better than Lisbon, Porto and Faro in August’. Clearly Madeira doesn’t compete with the 3 main airports in Portugal in terms of numbers, but...
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New Cruise Ship Debut ; ANAM Meet Ryanair
(6th September). Business between Brazil and Portugal between January and August fell 37% compared to the same period in 2008, down to €735 million, said a government source. The main Brazilian...
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Jet2 Coming In To Land ; Porto Santo Ferries Past & Present ; TAP Promotion &...
(10th September). ‘Jet2 to begin Manchester to Madeira service’. Budget airline Jet2.com is to start a new service to Madeira from Manchester Airport (UK). It said the flights to Funchal would operate...
View ArticleBernie The Golden Bolt ; Hotel Occupation Down 12.6% In July ; Nordics...
(15th September). The last of today’s headlines : ‘Gratitude – Several personalities in the tourism sector pay tribute to Bernardo Trindade, in Lisbon’. The recognition from the tourist ‘trade’ is...
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Funchal Traffic Worsens ; Clock Those New Glocks ; Costa Luminosa Debut Today
(25th September). Today’s main news headline : ‘Metropolitiana Forgets Santa Cruz – It’s been six years since the people of Santa Cruz saw any new project coming to their region’. That was the...
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