Is the Princess Juliana Airport very busy at this time of the year in the early afternoon on Saturdays for departures? Thank you.

If planes are scheduled to arrive or depart, people will be there. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />

Yes.

If you're talking about 'this time of year', as in, within the next month or two, it is relatively low season, so even though Saturday is normally the busiest day of the week, it should not be excessively busy. What is your exact question? How early to get there or something else?

Busy is subjective, but having flown out on a Saturday afternoon in mid-September a couple of times, all seats in the departure area are taken and movement is impeded by the number of people standing. That, in my estimation, qualifies as busy, although I have certainly seen worse and I can easily imagine PJIA being worse when there are more flights.

When we flew on Tuesday, one could have bowled in the same area and not worried about hitting anyone. That was quite nice.

Saturdays are usually the busiest dayat most getaway places due to the fact that most timeshares run from either Saturday to Saturday or a few with Sunday to Sunday. With a ''gazillion'' amount of timeshares on SXM, makes for a busy Saturday 52 weeks a year.