There are at least 4 airlines with direct flights to the Azores:
Sata Azorean airline, Tap airline Portugal, Irish airline Ryanair, American airline Delta Airlines.
The Azores archipelago is made up of nine main islands.
Corvo, Flores, Faial, Graciosa, Pico, São Jorge, Terceira, Santa Maria, São Miguel.
The Azores archipelago was formed by volcanic activity during the end of the Tertiary. The first island to appear above the midline of seawater was Santa Maria, around 8.1 million years ago (Ma), during the Miocene. They were followed, in chronological order, by São Miguel (4.1 Ma), Terceira (3.52 Ma), Graciosa (2.5 Ma), Flores (2.16 Ma), Faial (0.7 Ma), Corvo (0.7 Ma), São Jorge (0.55 Ma) and the youngest, Pico (0
Officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is a transcontinental archipelago and an autonomous territory of the Portuguese Republic, located in the northeast Atlantic, endowed with political and administrative autonomy, embodied in the Political-Administrative Statute of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
The Azores are part of the European Union with the status of the outermost region of the Union’s territory, as established in articles 349 and 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.