Cyril E. King Airport

ICAO TIST18.3371°N 64.9773°W24 ft / 7 mLarge airport

Cyril E. King Airport (IATA: STT, ICAO: TIST) is a large airport in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. It opened in Sep 1948. It has one runway, 7,000 ft (2,134 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 1.6 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1948–1976

SEP 1948

OpenedCyril E. King Airport opens.

27 APR 1976

DisasterAmerican Airlines Flight 625.37 killed

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

10/28087° / 267° · LIT

LENGTH7,000 ft2,134 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

1.4M

1.5M

1.2M

845K

1.2M

715K

1.5M

1.4M

1.6M

1516171819202122232425

Routes

29 destinations · 10 countries

Year-round25

Seasonal6

EISTerrance B. Lettsome International AirportBritish Virgin Islands · Cape Air48 km30 mi JFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,619 km1,627 mi BOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines2,732 km1,698 mi BNANashville International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,905 km1,805 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, American Airlines3,408 km2,118 mi MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Sun Country Airlines3,943 km2,450 mi

Most destinationsCape Air 8American Airlines 6United Airlines 4Southwest Airlines 3Delta Air Lines 3VI Airlink 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from STT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Cyril E. King Airport” (revision of 30 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers1.6M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#652of 3,974 · #156 North America · #1 VI Longest runway7,000 ft2,134 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,488of 29,823 · =832 North America · #2 VI Elevation24 ft7 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,964of 43,341 · =18,519 North America · #2 VI AgeOpened 19482026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,279of 15,079 · =2,168 North America · =1 VI Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =1 VI

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

9 channels

A/DSAN JUAN CNTR128.650

APPST THOMAS APP118.800

ATISATIS124.000

CTAFCTAF118.800

DEPST THOMAS DEP118.800

GNDGND121.900

RDOSAN JUAN RDO108.600

TWRST THOMAS TWR118.100

UNICUNICOM122.950