Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo

Madeira Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (LPMA) sits 8 miles east of Funchal, on Madeira's south coast, Portugal. The single 9,124 ft runway handles every current business jet (the runway is partially built on stilts over the Atlantic — operationally demanding crosswinds + sharp approach over terrain make Madeira one of Europe's more demanding airports). Field elevation 192 ft, no density-altitude concerns. Madeira is a structural Atlantic-island leisure destination — Belmond Reid's Palace, plus broader Funchal hotel corridor. Heavy UK + Northern Europe winter-sun charter flow. Ground time to downtown Funchal is 25 minutes.

Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport — also known as Madeira Airport, Funchal Airport, and formerly Santa Catarina Airport — is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira. The airport is located 13.2 km (8.2 mi) east-northeast of the regional capital, Funchal, after which it is sometimes informally named. It mostly hosts flights to European metropolitan destinations due to Madeira's importance as a leisure destination, and is pivotal in the movement of cargo in and out of the archipelago of Madeira. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Portugal, although in January 2025 and January 2026 it surpassed Faro. The airport is named after footballer and Madeiran native Cristiano Ronaldo. During its renaming ceremony in 2017, the airport drew media notoriety for an infamous bust of Ronaldo unveiled at the ceremony, now replaced.