Thomas at this same time in 1994 included Continental Airlines with nonstop Boeing 727-200 service from New York Newark Airport, Delta Air Lines with nonstop Boeing 757-200 service from Atlanta and St. Other airlines operating jet service into St. Thomas with nonstop service from Miami and San Juan with direct one stop A300 flights from Chicago O'Hare Airport, Orlando and Philadelphia and was also flying nonstop Boeing 757-200 service from New York Kennedy Airport. īy 1994, American was operating wide body Airbus A300-600R jets into St. In 1975, American as well as Eastern and Pan Am were serving the airport with Boeing 727-100 jetliners, American and Pan Am with nonstop 727 flights from New York Kennedy Airport with American also operating direct one stop 727 service from Boston and Providence, RI, and Eastern with nonstop 727 flights from Miami and San Juan as well as direct 727 flights from Chicago O'Hare Airport, Cleveland and Dallas/Fort Worth. Thomas in 1970 following its acquisition of and merger with Trans Caribbean Airways. Thomas for many years is American Airlines, which began serving St. Thomas by the late 1960s with the airport runway only being 4,658 feet (1,420 m) in length at the time.
Trans Caribbean, Pan Am and Caribair were all operating jet service into St. These air carriers included Air Florida with Douglas DC-9-10s, Caribair with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s, Eastern Airlines with Boeing 727-100s, 727-200s and 757-200s, Midway Airlines with Boeing 737-200s and McDonnell Douglas MD-87s, Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am) with Boeing 727-100s and 727-200s as well as wide body Airbus A300B4s and Airbus A310s, and Trans Caribbean Airways with Boeing 727-200s. Historically, a number of airlines operated scheduled passenger jet service into St. It was known as Harry S Truman Airport from 1948 until 1984, when it was renamed to honor Cyril Emmanuel King, the second elected governor of the U.S. ĭuring World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force 23rd Fighter Squadron ( 36th Fighter Group) deployed P-40 Warhawk fighters to the airport from March 1942 to May 1943. Louis on a grassy swamp to the north of what was then called Mosquito Bay (now called Lindbergh Bay in his honor). In 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. King Airport Terminal Modernization and Expansion Project Private planes can either use CBP Preclearance or arrive in the continental United States or Puerto Rico as an international arrival. Customs and Border Protection screening before boarding their flight. jurisdictions, all passengers bound for the continental United States and Puerto Rico must pass through U.S. John and is additionally often used by those travelling to the nearby British Virgin Islands.Īlthough passports are not required for U.S. The airport also serves the island of St. It is currently the busiest airport in the United States Virgin Islands, and one of the busiest in the eastern Caribbean, servicing 1,403,000 passengers from July 2015 through June 2016.
Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. King Airport ( IATA: STT, ICAO: TIST, FAA LID: STT) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. King Airport from an observation overlookĬyril E.
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