The Latvian national airline airBaltic has launched a new direct route connecting Tallinn with Madeira, Portugal. The service will be operated once per week, on Sundays, until March 28, 2026. Mantas Vrubliauskas, VP Network Management at airBaltic: “Madeira stands out as one of Europe’s mo...

Latvian flag carrier airBaltic recorded a 6% year-on-year increase in passengers for May 2025, transporting 458,900 travellers across its network – a record figure for the month. While the number of flights operated dipped slightly to around 4,300, down 0.4% compared to May 2024 due to ongoing ...

The Latvian airline airBaltic has announced a further expansion from the Baltics by adding three new routes – Riga–Madeira (Portugal), Tallinn–Kittilä (Finland) and Vilnius–Oslo Torp (Norway) – for the upcoming winter season that will start at the end of October 2024. Martin Gauss, Pre...

Budapest Airport welcomed the arrival of Wizz Air’s inaugural flight from Madeira yesterday. Supporting the advancement of the Hungarian gateway in the first days of the winter season, the ultra-low-cost carrier added a twice-weekly service to Funchal, connecting the capital cities for the firs...

Building on the latest positive traffic results for June 2022, which saw 1.2 million passengers and a return to 82% of 2019 figures, Budapest Airport is announcing another important new route. From the beginning of the W22 season home-based carrier Wizz Air will operate a twice-weekly service bet...

By Tristan Cork & Sophie Foster, dailystar Holidaymakers who flew out of Bristol yesterday morning to head off to sunny Madeira have explained how they ended up spending the night at a hotel in Gatwick. The passengers endured a chaotic 17-hour journey when the flight was only supposed to ...