SREA figures show passenger arrivals down 7.9 percent from April to August and overnight stays down 3.5 percent to July, most of the loss among guests from Portugal. TAP and Azores Airlines now fly the mainland routes alone.
Three Açores 2030 calls, announced at Macaronight in Ponta Delgada, fund green research and development, business R&D and proofs of concept, as the regional government tries to bring science and companies together.
SATA Holding said on Tuesday that 11 parties met the 14 September deadline to bid for all of SATA Handling. Azores Airlines, on sale in a separate process, drew eight. Both are conditions of the EU-approved restructuring plan.
Francisco Cesar told the regional Socialist Youth congress in Horta on Sunday that flights should count as an education expense for IRS, and announced a regional accommodation supplement for students who study off their own island.
The Regional Government Council approved the compensation mechanism on Thursday. It is aimed at owners and operators working inside a protected network that now covers 287,000 square kilometres, and it runs alongside a national envelope of up to 10 million euros.
Two hours from Lisbon can pass 500 euros return. Four hours from Praia sits near 218. The chamber stops short of alleging collusion and asks for an in-depth look at capacity management.
Lei Orgânica n.º 3/2026 gives every Azorean polling station at least two braille templates, trains the tables to handle them, and rejects an entire candidate list that misses the 40 percent parity floor and is not corrected.
