Authors & Editorial Team

Who runs madeiraflight.com?

madeiraflight.com is a small, independent reference project led by a single named, accountable editor — Rúben Vieira (Founder & Editor). There is no anonymous byline and no content farm behind it. That single point of accountability is deliberate: it means a real person stands behind every route table, every date and every safety claim, and that errors have a named address.

The site covers one subject in depth — flying to and from Madeira and Porto Santo — rather than travel in general. That narrow scope is what allows it to go deeper than a typical guide on the airport’s engineering, its 1977 accident, its wind-affected approach and its constantly shifting seasonal route map.

What is the editor’s expertise?

The editor is an aviation researcher focused specifically on Madeira’s air connectivity and its airport (FNC / LPMA). The relevant expertise here is method, not credentials: the ability to find the authoritative primary source for a claim, reconcile sources that disagree, and represent uncertainty honestly.

In practice that means:

• Building and maintaining a structured route matrix — every city-pair, operator, season window and frequency — cross-checked against airline timetables and airport announcements.
• Reading primary documents directly: ANA Aeroportos publications, the AIP for LPMA, official accident reports, and Eurostat / official traffic statistics.
• Distinguishing what is confirmed, what is reported and what is historical or merely announced — and never presenting one as another.

How the editorial standards work

Every page on this site follows the same rules, which are set out in full in our methodology:

Standard	What it means in practice
Primary sources first	Facts are traced to ANA, the AIP, accident reports, Eurostat and airline timetables — not to other blogs.
Confidence labelling	Time-sensitive data (schedules, frequencies, prices) is marked high / medium / low confidence.
Dated, not undated	Pages carry a “last verified” date and a machine-readable dateModified, so you can judge freshness.
Route-status discipline	Routes are flagged as active, seasonal, announced, suspended or historical — an announced route is never described as bookable.
No invented precision	Where the true figure is uncertain, we say “reported” or “approximately” rather than fabricate a number.
Prices are never fixed facts	Fares are shown as dated ranges with relative guidance, always pointing you to the airline for the live price.

Independence and how we are funded

madeiraflight.com is independent and not affiliated with ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, the airport, any airline, any tour operator or the Government of Madeira. It does not sell flights, and schedule and route data is never shaped by commercial relationships. Where the site ever links to a booking provider, that will not change which routes or facts we report, or how we report them.

Contact, corrections and contributions

We actively want to be corrected when we are wrong — it is the fastest way to make the site more accurate.

• Suggest a correction or flag an error: email [email protected] with the page URL, the specific claim and, ideally, a primary source. Confirmed corrections are applied and logged in our updates page.
• Subject-matter input: pilots who fly into LPMA, airline network staff and aviation historians are welcome to get in touch; expert review makes the pages stronger.

For the full picture of how data is gathered and verified, see About the data: how we collect & verify schedules.