Madeira is set to become even more accessible for UK travellers this summer, with a 12% increase in weekly flights between March and October 2025*. The newly released flight schedule sees weekly flights for the summer period rise from 349 in 2024 to 390 in 2025, with four new direct services launching from Luton, Bournemouth and Edinburgh.

The new routes offering greater convenience are:

• Bournemouth: Jet2 will introduce a new weekly service from May, departing on Thursdays, providing a convenient 3-hour 40-minute connection between Bournemouth and Funchal.
  
  
• Edinburgh: Ryanair will operate twice-weekly flights on Wednesdays and Sundays, linking Scotland's capital with Madeira in just 4 hours.
  
  
• Luton: Both easyJet and Jet2 are expanding services. Jet2 will offer a weekly Monday flight for the entire summer season, while easyJet will launch two additional services from June, with departures on Mondays and Fridays. Flight time from Luton to Funchal is also 4 hours.

This expansion in air connectivity is set to give Madeira's tourism industry a significant boost, offering UK visitors even greater ease in exploring the island's breathtaking landscapes, vibrant culture and year-round sunshine. It adds to Madeira's already excellent connectivity, which includes a range of regional services from Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, as well as multiple services from London Gatwick, Stansted and Luton.

For more information on things to see and do in Madeira, visit https://visitmadeira.com/en/

*Summer season is March 30th 2025 to October 25th 2025
Details must be confirmed by Airlines and/or Tour Operators on their websites or call centres.
The information in this press release is based on the best available data from flight schedules at the time of distribution. It is based on the collection of flight schedules from several public sources (IATA, SABRE, SLOT Coordination files, airline internet websites, etc.) and is subject to changes without previous notice. It should be considered as indicative only.

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About Madeira. Belongs to all

• Madeira. Belongs to all is the consumer-facing brand of the Madeira Promotion Bureau, which aims to promote Madeira as a tourist destination to consumers and the travel trade.
• Madeira, otherwise known as 'the islands of eternal spring', is just a short, three-and-a-half-hour flight from London. It covers 740km2 and has a population of only 260,000. On the same latitude as Morocco, the Atlantic archipelago has a sub-tropical climate, a rich volcanic soil and a unique eco-system. It is one of the only places in the planet where banana trees grow next to vineyards.
• Located approximately 1,000km from the European mainland – and just 500km from the African continent – Madeira enjoys an amazingly mild climate, ranging from 25°c in the summer to 17°c in the winter, with very mild average temperatures and moderate humidity.
• In 1999, Madeira's indigenous forest, the Laurissilva, was declared a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site. The Madeira Natural Park is a protected area that covers around two-thirds of Madeira Island's territory, equivalent to 67% of its surface.
  
  

For more information, visit www.visitmadeira.com / @visitmadeira

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