Madeira Airport

Once infamous for its short runway, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, which made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced pilots, Madeira Airport has been finally added on the route of low cost companies.

Madeira Airport has been rebuilt in 2003, almost doubling the size of the original runway. Building the new runway out over the ocean on a series of 180 columns, each about 70m tall, has won the Madeira Airport the Outstanding Structures Award, given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Today, Madeira is linked directly to some of the european cities like Dublin, Bristol, London Stansted, Copenhagen or Edinburgh and become an attractive destination for some of the low cost airlines, seeing Madeira island as very popular destination for the holidays.

New routes has been announced by the irish AerLingus, flying to Madeira from Dublin twice a week, or british EasyJet announcing its new routes to Madeira from the London Stansted and Bristol.