Cyril E. King Airport

Cyril E. King Airport (TIST) is a medium airport in Charlotte Amalie, U-A, U.S. Virgin Islands. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code TIST or IATA code STT. It sits in North America.

Cyril E. King Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 7,000 ft (2,134 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Cyril E. King Airport sits near sea level at 23 ft.

Local operations run on America/St_Thomas. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 7 departing and 11 arriving private-jet legs at TIST across the next six months of operator inventory. 8 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

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Cyril E. King Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district in the town of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. It is currently the busiest airport in the United States Virgin Islands, and one of the busiest in the eastern Caribbean, servicing 1,403,000 passengers from July 2015 through June 2016. The airport also serves the island of St. John and is additionally often used by those travelling to the nearby British Virgin Islands.