Key Takeaways
- St. Thomas is the main gateway. Cyril E. King Airport (STT), just west of the capital Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, is the territory's busiest airport and the arrival point for most visitors, with the widest choice of mainland US nonstops.
- St. Croix has its own airport. Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX) serves St. Croix, the largest island by area. It carries a smaller but useful set of mainland and inter-island routes, led by Miami, Atlanta and Charlotte.
- It is US soil, so flights are domestic. The U.S. Virgin Islands are an unincorporated US territory. Flights from the mainland count as domestic, and US citizens travel with a government ID rather than a passport.
- Service is growing in 2026. Alongside American, Delta, United and JetBlue, Southwest is launching nonstop flights to St. Thomas from Orlando and Baltimore in early 2026, widening the territory's low-cost options.
- St. John has no airport. The third main island, St. John, has no commercial airport. Visitors fly into St. Thomas and take a short ferry, while San Juan in Puerto Rico is the main connecting hub for both islands.
The U.S. Virgin Islands are a small Caribbean territory of the United States, made up of three main islands, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, plus dozens of cays. Two airports carry the scheduled traffic: Cyril E. King Airport (STT) on St. Thomas, the busy tourism and cruise gateway near the capital Charlotte Amalie, and Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX) on St. Croix. St. John, the greenest of the three and largely national park, has no airport of its own and is reached by ferry from St. Thomas.
Below we map and rank the territory’s airports by the number of regularly-served nonstop destinations each one handles, drawn from live route data on AirportRoutes. Because the figures come from observed flight data, a large sample rather than a complete published timetable, we treat them as a guide to relative connectivity rather than exact, official totals.
Flying to the U.S. Virgin Islands from the mainland
Because the U.S. Virgin Islands are an unincorporated US territory, flying there from the mainland is a domestic trip. US citizens do not need a passport, only a government-issued photo ID, and there is no immigration line on arrival. That makes the islands one of the easiest tropical getaways for American travelers, with the US dollar as the currency and no currency exchange to worry about.
St. Thomas (STT) has by far the wider choice of mainland nonstops, reaching cities such as Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte, New York, Boston, Newark, Washington, Orlando, Chicago, Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale. St. Croix (STX) is served from a shorter list led by Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale and Chicago. The big four carriers, American, Delta, United and JetBlue, do most of the flying, and low-cost options are expanding: Southwest begins nonstop service to St. Thomas from Orlando and Baltimore in early 2026, with Sun Country adding seasonal flights from Minneapolis.
If your home city has no direct flight, the usual workaround is to connect through San Juan in Puerto Rico, also US soil and only a short hop away. Cape Air and other regional carriers run frequent flights between San Juan and both Virgin Islands airports, so San Juan effectively acts as the territory’s connecting hub. There are no intercontinental nonstops from the islands themselves; long-haul travelers route via San Juan or Miami.
Ranked
Major Airports in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Ranked by regularly-served nonstop destinations, busiest first.
| Airport | IATA | Nonstop | Island / Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Cyril E. King | STT | 24 | St. Thomas (Charlotte Amalie) |
| 2. Henry E. Rohlsen | STX | 11 | St. Croix (Christiansted) |
A closer look at the territory’s airports
✈️ Cyril E. King Airport (STT)
Cyril E. King Airport sits on the western tip of St. Thomas, a few kilometres from the capital, Charlotte Amalie, and its busy cruise harbour. It is the territory’s principal airport and the gateway most visitors use, well known for its short, water-bordered runway and the scenic descent past the island’s green hills.
In the route data, STT reaches around 24 regularly-served nonstop destinations, by far the widest network in the territory. It blends inter-island hops to San Juan, St. Croix and the nearby British Virgin Islands with a long list of mainland US cities, from Atlanta and Miami to New York, Boston and Chicago. Traffic is strongly seasonal, peaking in the winter high season.
Main airlines: American Airlines, Delta, United and JetBlue, plus Cape Air on the inter-island shuttle and seasonal service from Sun Country and, from 2026, Southwest. See the full route map for STT on AirportRoutes →
🏝️ Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX)
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport serves St. Croix, the largest of the Virgin Islands by area and the most spread out, lying about 65 km south of St. Thomas. The airport sits between the two main towns, Christiansted and Frederiksted, and is the island’s link to the mainland and the wider Caribbean.
STX shows around 11 regularly-served nonstop destinations in the route data. Mainland service is led by Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale and Chicago, while shorter hops connect St. Thomas, San Juan, Vieques and a handful of neighbouring islands. The network is smaller than St. Thomas’s but covers the key US gateways for getting on and off the island.
Main airlines: American Airlines, Delta and JetBlue on the mainland routes, with Cape Air and Air Flamenco running the inter-island and Puerto Rico connections. See the full route map for STX on AirportRoutes →
What about St. John and the British Virgin Islands?
Two places people often expect to find on a Virgin Islands airport map are missing for good reasons. St. John, the third main US island and home to much of Virgin Islands National Park, has no commercial airport. Visitors fly into Cyril E. King on St. Thomas and take a short ferry from Red Hook or Charlotte Amalie across to Cruz Bay.
Just to the east lie the British Virgin Islands, with airports at Tortola (Beef Island) and Virgin Gorda. They are easy to see from St. Thomas, but they are a separate British Overseas Territory, not part of the US, so they sit outside this page and have their own entry rules. Small regional flights and ferries link the two groups across the narrow channel between them.
Airport rankings, regularly-served nonstop-destination counts, served cities and connections are drawn from live AirportRoutes route data (observed AeroAPI flight data, a sample rather than a complete published schedule). Airline service and airport facts are cross-checked against the cited references. The map is a Mappr original.
Primary Data Source:
- AirportRoutes: major airports and routes, U.S. Virgin Islands – Live route data: per-airport regularly-served nonstop destinations, served cities and airlines.
Reference:
- Wikipedia: Cyril E. King Airport and Henry E. Rohlsen Airport – Airport location, history and notable facts referenced in the per-airport sections.
- United States Virgin Islands tourism: flights to St. Thomas and St. Croix – Current airline service and gateway cities for the two airports.
- Locator maps: Google Maps / Google Static Maps – Per-airport location maps with airplane markers, generated via Google Static Maps.
Image Sources:
- Map by Mappr – Map of the major airports in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a Mappr original built from AirportRoutes data and Natural Earth boundaries.
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