“The agreed date, from the conversations we’ve had, is in early May,” said the head of the PSD/CDS-PP executive.
The official spoke to journalists on the sidelines of a visit to the Horácio Bento de Gouveia Basic School for 2nd and 3rd cycles in Funchal, where an intervention for improvement and maintenance took place at the three sports fields.
United Airlines this year launched the first direct connection between Newark/New York Airport and Madeira International Airport, with three weekly flights from June 9 to September 24, on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
“The idea is, as the operation went well, to maintain the three flights […] and to start earlier than last year,” said Miguel Albuquerque, without specifying any concrete date.
The President of the Regional Government explained that the United Airlines operation, which ends next Wednesday, was experimental and “went very well.”
“We will now look at the new period,” he said, emphasizing that “companies are in the market to make money,” thus “as long as they have occupancy and profit, they will certainly operate.”
