Flying to Antigua on a budget
Antigua is a mid-sized city served by 1 airport in Antigua and Barbuda. Across the city's airports, around 15 airlines operate roughly 35 documented route pairings, connecting Antigua to approximately 22 direct destinations worldwide. For budget travellers, having multiple airports in one city is usually good news. Secondary airports tend to host the lowest-cost carriers and the cheapest fares, but the trade-off is a slower (and sometimes pricier) ground transfer to the city centre.
The cheapest combination of base fare plus ground transport almost never lives at the same airport. As a rule of thumb, fly into the most-served airport when you have luggage, late arrival times, or a fixed work meeting. Fly into the cheapest secondary airport when you are travelling light, have flexible plans, and are arriving mid-day with the buses still running. We break down the airports below in order of route volume, so you can quickly see which carriers and destinations each one specialises in.
Airports serving Antigua
Tips for landing in Antigua cheap
- Compare airports before booking. The headline-cheapest fare into the secondary airport is sometimes wiped out by a EUR 20+ ground transfer to the city centre.
- Check the last public-transport time. Late arrivals can force a pricey taxi if you miss the bus or train; verify against the inbound landing time, not the scheduled.
- Pre-book ground transport for arrival. A pre-paid bus ticket bought online is usually the cheapest predictable option; airport-counter taxi rates can run two to three times the metered fare.
- If you have multiple airports, fly in and out of different ones. Use Google Flights' multi-city search to capture the cheapest combination of one-ways across two airports.
- Watch for currency exchange traps. The airport bureaux are the worst place to change money; withdraw from a major-bank ATM in arrivals instead.
Top destinations from Antigua
| Code | City | Country |
|---|---|---|
| LGW | London | United Kingdom |
| SKB | Basse Terre | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| PTP | Pointe-a-pitre | Guadeloupe |
| CLT | Charlotte | United States |
| JFK | New York | United States |
| MIA | Miami | United States |
| YYZ | Toronto | Canada |
| PUJ | Punta Cana | Dominican Republic |
| TAB | Scarborough | Trinidad and Tobago |
| BGI | Bridgetown | Barbados |
| SBH | Gustavia | France |
| NEV | Charlestown | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| KIN | Kingston | Jamaica |
| FRA | Frankfurt | Germany |
| AXA | The Valley | Anguilla |
| DOM | Dominica | Dominica |
| SDQ | Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic |
| SJU | San Juan | Puerto Rico |
| SLU | Castries | Saint Lucia |
| SXM | Philipsburg | Netherlands Antilles |
Airlines flying from Antigua
American Airlines (AA)
United States
United Airlines (UA)
United States
US Airways (US)
United States
Iberia Airlines (IB)
Spain
Air Canada (AC)
Canada
British Airways (BA)
United Kingdom
WestJet (WS)
Canada
Condor Flugdienst (DE)
Germany
Virgin Atlantic Airways (VS)
United Kingdom
Caribbean Airlines (BW)
Trinidad and Tobago
Leeward Islands Air Transport (LI)
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Air Antilles Express (3S)
Guadeloupe
T.J. Air (TJ)
United States
PAN Air (PV)
Spain
Sibaviatrans (5M)
Russia