Flights to St Kitts

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St Kitts flights summary:

Weekly flights from London Gatwick to St Kitts will be launched by British Airways in January 2009. St Kitts flights were previously available from Gatwick with XL, but these were cancelled when the tour operator went bust in September 2008. Regular connecting flights are available via other Caribbean islands, with Antigua being the easiest place to transfer.

St Kitts in a nutshell:

Until recently St Kitts (officially named St Christopher) was a relative backwater on the Caribbean tourist trail, but the island’s south-eastern peninsular, which has some of the best golden sand beaches in the region, has been set aside for new hotels and resorts.

Mini Guide to St Kitts

For now, St Kitts, which is dominated by dormant volcano, Mount Liamuiga, is still off the beaten track (although it is positively jumping compared to sedate sister-island Nevis), and retains much of its old-world charm. Many of the sugar plantation houses that cover St Kitts have been converted into beautiful luxury hotels. Such settings are undeniably romantic, and have become a big hit with honeymooning couples.

Another factor in St Kitts increasing popularity is the weather. It is warm all year round, but the best time to visit is during the drier months from November to May when temperatures rarely dip below 20 degrees. St Kitts may be small (12 miles long, 4 miles wide), but it has a remarkable variety of flora and fauna – the island is one of the few places in the world where the forest is expanding - as well as outstanding snorkelling and scuba diving sites.

St Kitts is also home to green vervet monkey. The cheeky scamps are a pest to farmers (they will eat anything), but no holiday to the island would be complete without a troop of vervets hanging out with you by the pool.

St Kitts Flight News

BA launch St Kitts flights this winter - 08/10/2008