TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums St. Maarten - St. Martin Does anyone have a definitive date AA will resume

Hi All: I was scheduled to fly in on the 11th. AA changed that to the 17th. AA then changed that to the 25th. Now, they booked me on the first. Any help would be appreciated.

I really have not heard any kind of a date. One encouraging sign is that I did see a little blurb in the Daily Herald today that workers were working on repairing the fence around the airport. For security reasons, the will HAVE to have that fence repaired.

We are very frustrated. Our home on Island is now vacant, no one around. front gate blown into street. My rental agent sent pictures but not heard after that... Seems if we do not go down, no one will do anything, on the other hand, could be dangerous with thieves stealing... I know we can not wait the winter to get there... Very frustrating...I am hoping they open up flights in the next few months...

If you really want to get there now, the only currently available route is to fly to Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe, and then connect to the French Side airport on Air Antilles Express, Air Caraibes, or temporarily, St Barth Commuter.

I called AA on Saturday with the same question. I was told flights will resume on Oct 1st, subject to change depending on the conditions at the airport. I'm not holding my breath. Like sasasal, I would like to see the condition of our house, at least secure all the openings, assess the damage, and start to develop a plan for the necessary repairs.

But you have to be a resident and have papers to prove it.

Sasasal, have you contacted the people on Facebook who offered to help you? As I said there, I know them personally and you can trust them.

I don't know, if commercial flights are open, then there would not be such restrictions. Have you seen that somewhere??

SXMscubaman

There are no requirements for entry (other than the usual) into St Martin for people using commercial flights landing at Grand Case. If people want to go, they can. The condos at Princess Heights at Dawn Beach and the private apartments at Porto Cupecoy suffered very little damage and are open for people to stay if someone chooses to go to the Island right now.

I think that Scubaman is making an observation that if you land on the French side and want to get to the Dutch side you might have difficulty? They WERE requiring papers to move back and forth between the Dutch/French sides, but I have no idea if that is still in force.

That was only being done for a couple of days. Both sides got together and decided to implement harmonized curfew times and after that border controls were stopped. I believe they might only be doing border controls during the 9 pm to 6 am curfew currently in effect.

The curfew has now been extended to 9 PM.

We finally have contact with our agency... I asked that she secure the house... front gate was blown into the street, if its not gone, perhaps it can be put back in place... Our only concern now is security... without it, could have much more damage... Repairs can come in time. We need to see the damage for ourself in order to have repairs done... You can not tell someone to repair in an email, or on phone... We need to be there... but yes there are many helpful folks that are willing to help.... My husband will fly when he can get there without flying all over the place, he is not a young man... So we wait....