Antigua VC Bird Int'l Airport review : 28 April 2008 : by Nick Parker

Customer Rating : 1/5

Arrived today at Antigua airport from Anguilla en route to Gatwick with Virgin Atlantic but scheduled 2 hour wait was reduced to 1 hour after delay to first flight. No assistance provided at airport to find luggage and airport staff were uncooperative and unfriendly. We were given the choice to board without luggage or miss the connection and wait for luggage despite their still being an hour to departure.

Antigua VC Bird Int'l Airport by Craig Covil

8 April 2008   Customer Rating :

I concur with Geoff Isaacs comment, the best thing on departing is to get there early, check in - lose the luggage and go for a cold beer (Carib) across the road at the Sticky Wicket, good food too. This airport is very tired and when hot the terminal building lounge is very sweaty - not what you want just before you get on board a long haul flight. They should demolish this and get a new terminal building with lots of passive ventilation. Last time I departed the security scanning machine for hand luggage broke down, so nothing got scanned. Lovely people. Lovely country.

Antigua VC Bird Int'l Airport by Geoff Isaacs

18 March 2006   Customer Rating : n/a

First of all make sure you have the correct paperwork given you by the airline in flight, despite flying BWIA, all on our flight were 1 form short per persons including children. Once through the security check getting in the luggage came quite quickly on the antiquated carousel, ignore the porters its only a short trip to the exit. On return get there as early as poss if you don't like queuing, because every case is searched prior to check in, we arrived slightly more than 3 hours early under our own transport, this meant it only took 30 mins to check in, then paid the $25 tax to leave (to be abolished soon). Rather than go in the departure lounge we headed across the road to the Stickey wicket cricket ground/bar/museum, where we languished in luxury while watching a floodlit pro/am cricket match. we went back to the airport 1 hour before departure. the departure lounge has nice shops, but I wouldn't have liked to have been sat there for more than an hour. Once called to gate (one gate with several airline desks!) we were pointed in the direction of the walkway and set off to board the plane, from this point we never saw another airport official until at the top of the steps at the plane, it was dark and non experience flyers could have easily boarded the First Choice aircraft by mistake. On the whole not a bad experience, but improved by going to the Stickey wicket (believe Virgin passengers are given vouchers to spend there)










 

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