All direct flights to St Kitts Airport from the UK & Ireland

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  VirginFan

  28 December 2011 at 01:31 | #

  Do you think Virgin will start flights to St Kitts, I have used them on flights to quite a few other Caribbean destinations, where they are vastly superior to BA.
  
  Why not St Kitts, I hear the Four Seasons hotel is one of the finest in the Caribbean?

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    James Avery

    28 December 2011 at 02:03 | #

    I think it is highly unlikely at the moment. The market for flights to St Kitts - Nevis is already far larger than the island federation's tiny population would otherwise sustain, were it not for some substantial resort hotels. You mention the Four Seasons, which is on the island of Nevis - so you could fly with Virgin to Antigua, but the connection through to Nevis is unreliable, and Virgin will no longer book it as a through ticket.
    
    That is why most Four Seasons guests coming from the UK will fly into St Kitts instead, and take advantageo of the ferry service provided by the resort. BA currently sustain two flights each week to St Kitts, but this is largely due to the fact that the route operates as a continuation from Antigua, where most passengers alight / board on the return.
    
    Many Caribbean flights operate to double destinations in this manner, but we also understand there is an arrangement between BA and the St Kitts-Nevis government to subsidise this route, which previously was operated on a weekly basis by XL, using a Boeing 767, but also via Antigua. The Boeing 777 is somewhat larger, but Virgin's longhaul fleet from Gatwick to the Caribbean is based on the larger Boeing 747-400.

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  Miss B

  28 December 2011 at 12:34 | #

  I had the misfortune to fly with XL (or should that be X-Hell?) many times between London and St Kitts. I was so chuffed when they went under and BA came to the rescue! BA might be more expensive, but on every level they are in a different league from XL.

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    Mark Avery

    29 December 2011 at 11:56 | #

    I quite agree Miss B. I too suffered the XL experience - horrendous! I have yet to take advantage of BA's flights to St Kitts, but it is an extension of their Antigua route which I have flown on many times.

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  Philip Cheshire

  25 January 2012 at 11:36 | #

  I have previously always used Skyscanner for finding flights, but they said there were no flights to St Kitts from the UK. I reverted to Google and your site came up. Flights to St Kitts now booked - direct from London! Thanks. I have bookmarked you and will be returning next time I'm looking for flights.

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    James Avery

    25 January 2012 at 12:48 | #

    Philip, glad to hear it. They have probably exlcuded those flights as there is a brief stop in Antigua in each direction. Some sites consider 'one stop' to be the same thing, whether it is a brief touch & go like this, or whether you have to get out, go through customs & immigration, and then wait a few hours for an onward flight. That is exactly what will happen if you take other so-called 'one-stop' flights to St Kitts.

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  Ron

  09 March 2012 at 02:42 | #

  I thought I'd be clever and see if I could book my own flights to St Kitts using my preferred airline (Virgin Atlantic) and then finding a continuation over to St Kitts. Forget it! BA are actually very reasonably priced when compared to trying to use LIAT on top of flights to Antigua!

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