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Airlines into Tobago
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Trinidad and Tobago are well served with excellent
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British Airways (BA)
British Airways offer
direct flights to Tobago on Thursdays and Saturdays, via Antigua . They also offered a third, Monday, service over the winter
months (1 November to 23 March).The BA service utilizes a Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 260 passengers in a three class configuration
- standard economy (World Traveler), premium/super economy (World Traveler Plus) and business class (World Club). Flights
operate from London Gatwick North.
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Caribbean Airlines
Caribbean Airlines (formerly
BWIA), is the national airline. They offer direct flights to Trinidad from London Gatwick, codeshare with British
Airways.
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Excel Airways
Excel Airways offers a
popular and highly-affordable charter service to Tobago.Excel offer two regular weekly services to Tobago: on Thursdays
and Saturdays. During the peak winter months, they also offer a Sunday flight.The Excel flights operate from London Gatwick
South terminal. The service uses a Boeing 767 aircraft carrying 281 passengers, in a two-class configuration of standard
economy and Excel One (business) class.Flight-only tickets for the Excel service can be obtained by booking online from
the Excel Airways site at www.xl.com.
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Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic operate
a non-stop service to Tobago on Thursdays. Virgin flights operate from London Gatwick South.The Virgin service utilizes
a Boeing 747-400 carrying 439 passengers in a three-class configuration; standard economy, premium economy and Upper Class
(with super-doper Upper Class suites).Flight tickets are available directly from Virgin Atlantic.
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Condor
Condor is part of the
Thomas Cook Group. The airline provides a year-round twice-weekly (Wednesday & Sunday) non-stop direct service
to Tobago from Frankfurt, with return via Porlamar (Isla Margarita, Venezuela).The Condor service utilizes
a Boeing 767 in two-class configuration - tourist class and comfort class.
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Martin air
Martin air offer a
weekly service from Amsterdam.The flights depart and return to Schiphol airport. The outbound flight is via
Porlamar (Isla Margarita, Venezuela) but the return from Tobago is non-stop.The Martinair service utilizes a Boeing
767-300 carrying 272 passengers in a three class configuration of Economy and Star class, plus a Comfort class.
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American Airlines (AA)
American Airlines
offer twice-daily non-stop flights to Port of Spain, Trinidad (POS) from Miami (MIA), with inter-city connections from New
York (LGA) and Washington (BWI) and other departure points. There are no services directly into Tobago.Passengers arriving
on the second flight of the day will need to overnight at the airport or in Port Of Spain. The AA flight arrives too late
to catch the last Tobago Express air bridge transfer to Tobago.The service utilizes a Boeing 767 in three class configuration.
American Airlines also offer daily direct flights between Port of Spain and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Caribbean Airlines
Offers a range of non-stop
services to Trinidad from North America. Most services are via Trinidad but there is now a daily direct flight to Tobago from
Miami, a Thursday direct flight from Washington and a daily (except Sundays) direct flight from New York. The flights can
be summarised as follows:
- Miami (MIA) – direct to Tobago, via Trinidad, with connection
from Chicago.
- New York (JFK) – non-stop or via Barbados.
- Toronto (YYZ) – non-stop or via Barbados.
- Washington (IAD) – non-stop direct flight to Tobago, plus flights
to Trinidad direct or via Barbados. Timed for United Airlines connections from Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco
and Seattle.
All North American flights are aboard Boeing 737 aircraft in a conventional
three-class configuration.
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Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines
offer flights to Port of Spain, Trinidad (POS) from Newark (EWR) and Houston (IAH). All flights from Houston are non-stop
and also some of the flights from Newark, although others are via Houston.The service is provided in a Boeing 738 in a two
class configuration. There are connecting flights from various other airports.
Delta Air Lines
Delta Airlines has a new service into Trinidad from Atlanta, plus a new
weekly service flying directly into Tobago from Atlanta, offering cheap inaugural fares from 2008!
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TravelSpan
TravelSpan offers non-stop and
direct morning and midnight service to Trinidad from North America, with daily service from John
F Kennedy International
Airport in New York and twice weekly service from Hollywood International Airport in
Ft Lauderdale. TravelSpan’s North American flights are provided in a two (3) class
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G.G.Tours operate a weekly charter
flight between Toronto and Port Of Spain , Trinidad. A wide-body Boeing 767-300ER aircraft with economy and premium seating
and 140lbs per person baggage allowance is offered to passengers.www.ggtours.ca
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AIR TRAVEL: CARIBBEAN
REGIONS
A guide to airline services to Tobago within the Caribbean
region
In addition to the main regional carriers, Caribbean Airlines, Caribbean Star and LIAT, a number of
small charter airlines operate inter-island services.
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Caribbean Airlines
Direct services
to Tobago from Trinidad, at weekends and peak periods only.The airline also offers a wide range of regional services
to Port Of Spain from Antigua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican, Jamaica, Guyana, St. Maarten and Suriname.
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Caribbean Star
Caribbean Star is a small
regional airline offering over 80 daily flights serving 15 destinations.This airline offers direct services between Tobago
and Grenada and Barbados with connecting flights to various other Caribbean destinations.
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LIAT
LIAT is a regional airline serving
20 destinations in the Eastern Caribbean, from the Dominican Republic in the north to Guyana in the south. Antigua is LIAT's
home base and principle hub.LIAT offer direct flights to Tobago from Barbados via Grenada, this leaves Barbados (BGI) at 17:10hrs
and arrives in Tobago, via Grenada, at 18:50hrs. The flight is timed for valid connections from the northern islands (St.
Thomas, Tortola, St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Anguilla , Antigua & Barbuda , Dominica , Guadeloupe , Martinique and St. Lucia).
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AIR TRAVEL: TRINIDAD-TOBAGO AIRBRIDGE
A
guide to airline services between Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Airlines runs the airbridge service between
Trinidad (Piarco, Port of Spain ), and Tobago 's Crown Point airport.The current inter-island flight schedule indicates twelve
flights per day in each direction, operating between 6:00am and 9:15pm from Piarco and from 6:40am to 9:55pm from Crown Point.
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Entry Requirements
Entry requirements for US citizens and European Union
residents visiting Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on vacation or business travel consists of a passport - valid for 3 months
longer than your intended stay - tickets and documents for return or onward travel. Visas are not required for US citizens
or European Union residents visiting for up to three months, however, if you are traveling to T&T for employment, adoption,
study or immigration please contact your local T&T consulate or embassy.
Other non-visa nationals include: • Citizens
of Commonwealth countries, with the exception of Australia, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania,
Uganda, and South Africa. • Citizens of countries that have visa agreements with Trinidad and Tobago, i.e.:
Turkey, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Israel, Brazil, Colombia, South Korea – once visiting as tourists for no
longer than 3 months
• Venezuelan tourists, arriving from Venezuela,
visiting T&T for a maximum of two weeks.
• Citizens of Suriname, Martinique, Guadeloupe,
French Guyana, and The Netherlands
• All holders of OAS passports
• Seamen and airline crew, regardless of nationality,
arriving in T&T to join their ships, or are in transit to meet their airline for a return trip
Holders of UN passports do require visas. In addition,
holders of Diplomatic Passports are not automatically exempted from visa restrictions. If in doubt, contact your nearest Trinidad
and Tobago Consulate or Diplomatic Mission. Persons entering the country from an area infected with Yellow Fever within
a 5 day period will need to present a vaccination certificate to immigration officials.
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