With its uncanny knack of separating passengers from their luggage, Ryanair has been voted the worst airline for the sixth year in a row.
The Which? survey gave the top short-haul accolade to the Channel Islands airline, Aurigny with Singapore Airlines voted the best long-haul service.
Two people were found dead early on Saturday, inside their home in Rua da Infantário, Lagoa, Algarve.
According to the GNR, the Portuguese victims, a man and a woman both in their 50s, had been fatally injured by a firearm and that the circumstances in which the incident occurred were unknown.
The Director General of Health, Graça Freitas, said today that the ‘flu in Portugal could become an epidemic “within a week,” adding that the current number of incidences is normal.
A meeting at the Directorate-General for Health was said to be “routine,” the situation was reviewed and predictions made regarding the spread of cold and influenza viruses.
The forced closure of Castro Marim Council’s municipal company, Novbaesuris, is descending into chaos, not helped by opposition councillors.
"The indefinite closure of the public facilities that are under the management of Novbaesuris now is at the beginning of the liquidation process," announced the Council which added that Casa do Sal, the Revelim de Santo António, the Castle and Casa de Odeleite are closing as the company’s employees all have been redeployed or laid off.
Users of the Algarve’s railway service are having to put up with a daily service that is blighted with frequent cancellations.
The Algarve Line Passengers Committee is holding a public protest next Thursday, January 10, at Olhão railway station, “in defence of the Algarve Line, a fundamental infrastructure for the development of the region which faces one of the worst moments in its history.”
ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ broadcast a discussion on the best tourist destinations in the world to visit in 2019 - the Estrada Nacional 2, Portugal’s very own ‘Route 66,’ was one of the highlights of the programme that attracts over four million viewers.
The Estrada Nacional 2 connects Trás-os-Montes and the Algarve capital of Faro: the road is 739 kilometres long and one of the most iconic routes in the country.
In a decision that will send enraged environmental groups scurrying to their lawyers, the government and the airports authority, ANA, have decided to press ahead with the Montijo air base development without waiting for the completion of a key environmental impact study.
The agreement to start the project to create a second Lisbon airport will move forward without a study into the effects the increased air traffic will have on birdlife in the Tagus Estuary Nature Reserve (Reserva Natural do Estuário do Tejo) and the dangers posed to passengers.
Judges in the Golden Visa trial, where 21 defendants were variously accused of corruption and using Portugal’s tax incentive scheme to line their own pockets, were at pains to point out that they had come to their decision without any pressure whatsoever from anyone.
This extraordinary statement, rather like a dinner guest informing the host that he is not going to steal the silverware, raises suspicions that verdicts in other cases have been subject to external influence.
