St. Barts is a whole different game. One very high end French place. Most properties will not touch kids under 12 at least during the season. St. Barts has St, Martin and all their airlift right there. St, Barts is a 12 minute flight for those that must fly on nice planes both scheduled and private. There are also several nice ferries that run on schedule. Figure $100 per person each way. St. Barts is just one island with less than 10,000 residents. 70,000 visitors by air and ferry each year with another 130,000 arriving by boat. St. Barts gets the yachts many in the BVI hope to attract more of.

There are NO lines of any type or hassles with C&I. Rule of thumb to afford to live on the island in the hospitality industry you need two jobs paying at least 30 Euro an hour.



St. Barts is only a small fraction of the St. Martin airport traffic. Traffic that includes wide body jets direct from Europe.

SXM annual passenger volume is expected to grow to 1.95 million by 2020 from just under 1.8 million last year. The airport is also expecting aircraft movements to grow to anywhere from 69,000 to 75,000 a year by 2020, from 60,371 in 2014. SXM’s business-jet traffic is continuing to grow and is becoming less seasonal, with the airport beginning to see more business-jet movements in its June-August low season.

SXM Airport is expecting from 10,400 to 12,000 business-jet movements annually by 2020