About 360 passengers on 13 departures (2 major-carrier flights and 11 island hops) to 4 destinations. The biggest carrier is American.
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The schedule · 13 departures
A light day: the line holds near 5 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.
PreCheck is available at Henry E. Rohlsen. Global Entry and Mobile Passport Control don't apply here: you are leaving the U.S. customs zone for the mainland, not entering the country.
A small single-terminal airport. Check-in opens about three hours before departure, but two hours ahead is typically plenty; the terminal opens at 6:00am.
Lines are usually short except when several jets depart together. The half-hour strip on the card shows when that is today.
The line never really builds today — it sits near 5 minutes from the moment the doors open. 13 departures are scheduled. They carry about 360 departing passengers, and the model puts every one of them through the one U.S. Customs and TSA line. The wait is quoted curb to gate, Customs and TSA together. With nobody ahead of you it is about 5 minutes — the counter, the U.S. Customs inspection and the TSA 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 2h 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 | ~— min now · peak ~5 at 6:00am Moderate · 13 departures |
| EIS Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport · Tortola | Immigration → Security · arrive 1h 30m | Moderate · regional props only, no mainland nonstops |
About 360 passengers depart STX today on 13 scheduled flights, and about 208 land. The busiest departure hour is 9am, when about 152 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 ~272, Cape Air ~88. Across the next seven days, Saturday is the busiest at about 602 departing passengers and Sunday the lightest at about 344, roughly 2,730 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.
9am is the biggest hour, ~152 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.
Saturday is the busiest departure day of the week ahead at ~602 passengers. Tap a day at the top of the page for its wait forecast and flight list.
Flat at ~5 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.
1 departure bank: 9:59am–11:00am (3 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.
STX airport wait times right now, tonight and tomorrow morning — the live U.S. Customs and TSA forecast for St. Croix airport, Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX), 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 — you're on this page | 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 | 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 the whole line, U.S. Customs and TSA together, curb to gate. Henry E. Rohlsen is a small, low-volume airport, so the line is usually short — it only builds when several jets depart close together. The half-hour strip on the card shows the day, and the date picker checks any date within 60 days.
About two hours before departure is typically enough at St. Croix. Check-in opens roughly three hours out and the terminal opens at 6:00am, so no recommendation on this page ever falls earlier than that. Allow more when the card shows your slot as High or Severe.
The U.S. Virgin Islands sit outside the U.S. customs zone, so travelers heading to the mainland clear U.S. Customs and Border Protection at St. Croix before boarding — not on arrival stateside. That is why the STX line is two checkpoints in one hall, Customs then TSA.
TSA PreCheck is available at STX. Global Entry and Mobile Passport Control don't apply on USVI departures, since you're leaving the customs zone, not entering the United States.
STX has more mainland nonstops than its size suggests: Miami and Charlotte on American, Atlanta on Delta, New York-JFK, and seasonal Fort Lauderdale — plus inter-island hops to San Juan and St. Thomas. The globe at the top of this page draws every departure and arrival on today's schedule.
Saturday is typically the busiest, following the same weekend leisure pattern as St. Thomas but flatter; Monday through Wednesday are usually the lightest. The week strip on the card shows the modeled passengers and wait level for each of the next seven days.
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport is on the south side of St. Croix, about 20–30 minutes from Christiansted and about 15 minutes from Frederiksted.
Modeled from published flight schedules and typical load factors; actual wait times vary. You're on the St. Croix (STX) guide — St. Thomas (STT) · Tortola (EIS) · USVI taxi fares · ferries · weather.