About 420 passengers on 17 departures (9 major-carrier flights and 8 island hops) to 6 destinations. The biggest carrier is American.
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The schedule · 17 departures
A light day: the line holds near 4 min all day.
Pick your departure above ↑ or tap any flight in the list belowbeside this: you get when to leave, the line when you arrive, and what happens if you’re late.
EIS is a BVI airport: you clear BVI Immigration here, and travelers heading on to the mainland clear U.S. Customs at the connection airport, usually San Juan.
Check-in desks typically open about two hours before departure; 90 minutes is usually enough at a terminal this size. The doors open at 6:00am.
Many visitors skip the EIS connection and take the ferry between Tortola and St. Thomas — often faster and cheaper than the puddle-jumper.
Ferry schedules →The line never really builds today — it sits near 4 minutes from the moment the doors open. 17 departures are scheduled. They carry about 422 departing passengers, and the model puts every one of them through the one BVI Immigration and security line. The wait is quoted curb to gate, Immigration and security together. With nobody ahead of you it is about 4 minutes — the counter, the immigration desk and the security scanner — and it only climbs when a flight's passengers arrive, three to three and a half hours before it leaves. No half hour today rises above that floor. It stays under 15 minutes 6:00am–7:00pm. Arrive 1h 30m before departure on a normal day, and earlier when your slot is High or Severe; the airport opens 6:00am.
| Airport | Before you fly | Today |
|---|---|---|
| STT Cyril E. King Airport · St. Thomas | U.S. Customs → TSA · arrive 2h 30m | Often busy · the busiest of the three, most mainland nonstops |
| STX Henry E. Rohlsen Airport · St. Croix | U.S. Customs → TSA · arrive 2h | Moderate · small terminal, a fraction of STT's volume |
| EIS Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport · Tortola | Immigration → Security · arrive 1h 30m | ~— min now · peak ~4 at 6:00am Moderate · 17 departures |
About 422 passengers depart EIS today on 17 scheduled flights, and about 552 land. The busiest departure hour is 11am, when about 98 passengers are booked to leave — and because they reach the terminal two to three and a half hours before that, the line still never really builds on a day this light. By carrier: American ~244, interCaribbean ~114, Cape Air ~49. Across the next seven days, Thursday is the busiest at about 612 departing passengers and today the lightest at about 422, roughly 3,660 in all. Every figure is an estimate: each aircraft type's seat count at a typical 85% load factor, from the published schedule, refreshed hourly. 5 flights are missing from these totals — we could not identify their aircraft type, and a flight we cannot size is left out rather than counted as empty.
11am is the biggest hour, ~98 passengers booked to leave. They reach the terminal three to three and a half hours earlier, which is why the line stays flat on a day this light.
Thursday is the busiest departure day of the week ahead at ~612 passengers. Tap a day at the top of the page for its wait forecast and flight list.
Flat at ~4 min all day. Under 15 minutes 6:00am–7:00pm. The bars are the worst case inside each half hour, which is what you hit if you walk in at the wrong minute. The floor is the walk, the counter and the scanner with nobody ahead of you; everything above it is other passengers, and it moves with the departure bank they are here for.
3 departure banks: 11:28am–11:55am (4 jets), 2:11pm–3:26pm (3 jets), 4:15pm–5:38pm (5 jets). The crowd for each arrives three to three and a half hours ahead, which is why the terminal is fullest two hours before the busiest takeoffs, not during them.
EIS airport wait times right now, tonight and tomorrow morning — the live BVI Immigration and security forecast for Tortola airport, Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (EIS), is at the top of this page; the half-hour chart, the passenger counts and the day's departures and arrivals are above. Below: the three Virgin Islands airports side by side, then the questions travelers ask most, with the numbers behind them and links to the VIslandGuide pages that finish the trip.
Three airports serve the Virgin Islands — Cyril E. King (STT) on St. Thomas, Henry E. Rohlsen (STX) on St. Croix, and Terrance B. Lettsome (EIS) on Beef Island, Tortola. Each has its own terminal, security process, and route map.
| Airport | Terminal | Nonstop destinations | Typical week (Sun–Sat) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyril E. King Airport (STT) Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | Single terminal. 2 TSA lanes. Check-in opens ~3h before departure. | 24 — MIA, CLT, JFK, LGA, PHL, EWR, IAD, BOS, ATL, ORD, MCO, FLL, MSP, DTW, DEN, BWI, MDW, TPA, PIT, SJU, STX, EIS, SBH, SXM | Sun Often busy · Mon Lighter · Tue Lightest · Wed Lighter · Thu Moderate · Fri Often busy · Sat Busiest |
| Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX) Christiansted, St. Croix | Single terminal. Small, low-volume airport. Check-in opens ~3h before departure. | 9 — MIA, CLT, JFK, FLL, ATL, SJU, STT, EIS, SXM | Sun Moderate · Mon Lighter · Tue Lightest · Wed Lighter · Thu Moderate · Fri Moderate · Sat Busiest |
| Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (EIS) Road Town, Tortola — you're on this page | Single terminal, short runway. Mostly regional props. Check-in opens ~2h before departure. | 5 — SJU, STT, SXM, ANU, DOM | Sun Lighter · Mon Lighter · Tue Lightest · Wed Lightest · Thu Lighter · Fri Moderate · Sat Busiest |
The live number is at the top of this page, modeled from today's departure schedule and updated hourly: one wait for BVI Immigration and security together, curb to gate. EIS handles regional props only, so the line rarely builds far; the half-hour strip on the card shows the day and the date picker checks any date within 60 days.
No. There are no nonstop flights from the U.S. mainland to the British Virgin Islands — reach EIS via a connection in San Juan (SJU), St. Thomas (STT) or Sint Maarten (SXM).
Regional carriers: Cape Air, interCaribbean, Silver Airways and Winair. The short runway (about 4,600 ft) restricts EIS to regional aircraft — ATRs, Saab 340s and smaller props, no mainline jets.
No. EIS is a BVI airport, so departing passengers clear BVI Immigration and security. Travelers connecting to the U.S. mainland clear U.S. Customs at the connection airport, usually San Juan.
Check-in desks typically open about two hours before departure, and 90 minutes ahead is usually enough. The terminal opens at 6:00am.
Many visitors skip the EIS connection entirely and fly into St. Thomas, then take the ferry to Tortola from Red Hook or Charlotte Amalie — often faster and cheaper than the puddle-jumper. Bring your passport either way.
Saturday — the conventional start and end day for most BVI bareboat and crewed charters. Most other days sit close together; midweek is usually the lightest.
Modeled from published flight schedules and typical load factors; actual wait times vary. You're on the Tortola (EIS) guide — St. Thomas (STT) · St. Croix (STX) · USVI taxi fares · ferries · weather.