ATTENTION: Anyone flying northwest airlines nwa to St Thomas virgin islands usvi?

Question

Although the new travel restrictions allow flight to and from the US Mainland and USVI without a passport NORTHWEST AIRLINES IS REQUIRING ALL PASSENGERS to have a passport to fly back from the USVI to the US mainland. A northwest supervisor explained it to me that even though the state department doesn't require it that northwest can still require it's passengers to have passports in case an emergency landing needs to take place in a foreign country?

I don't see any other countries between the USVI and the mainland. That's when she hung up on me.

I'm suppose to leave on Janurary 20th and I have no passport... not happy with northwest airlines in the least.

Anyone else have this problem with them? Anyone have any ideas how I can get around this?

northwest just added the USVI as a destination. They are only flying there and back once a week (every saturday) the first flight is 01/20/07.

And I have talked to a half dozen supervisors at northwest and only 1 of them said I wouldn't need a passport. I might be screwed either way though because I don't have a birth certificate (lost years ago) and the state of IA Says 30 days for a birth certificate.

Answer 1

I hate to say this but if you really wanted to go to your post office and see if they can get you a passport and it would cost you a few more dollars but they ahve this express feature that you could ask about and you could always just do a one way trip down and then take a different airline on the way back just keep your options open and call again and get a different person and maybe then can give you a different answer also file a complaint as people arent suppossed to hang up on you.

Answer 2

follow the link that sanapcrackle gave; read it, be able to quote it, print it out and then call nwa back and keep getting passed higher up till someone agrees with their own stated policy.....people answering phones are so low level and low paid they dont think or make policy.

Bring the NWA rule book print out with you to the airport so when you get hassled at check in you have something to fall back on.

I've lived in STT 30 years..NorthWest flies here? Really?

and foreign countries between US and USVI are Haiti, Dom Rep, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and God help us, Cuba, so a divert to a foreign field IS possible........

Answer 3

If I was you, I would apply for the passport asap. It's gonna cost you, I can tell you that. I wouldn't trust it. Better safe than sorry, and have your passport by the time you are ready to leave. Even so St. Thomas is apart of U.S. territory, still have your passport. Go to your local post office and get the application, return with your license, and birth certificate, along with two headshots of yourself.

Answer 4

I'd call them back and ask to speak to a supervisor, this is from thre website take note of #1:

/ 02JAN07 / 0239 UTC
National U.S.A. (US) /Embarkation U.S.A. (US)
Destination VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.A.) (VI)

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.A.) (VI)


Passport required.
However, if arriving from:
*****1. U.S. mainland, Alaska, Guam, Hawaii or Puerto Rico:
no entry documents required due to no immigration control;
or
2. - Central or South America;
- Bermuda, Canada, Greenland;
- West Indies, Caribbean or Society Islands:
proof of citizenship (e.g. birth certificate, naturalization
papers, U.S. expired passport) also accepted;

Visa not required.

Minors: as special facilities or restrictive procedures exist,
see: For details, click here - Items 3. and 4.

If having been in or transited through Libya, special
restrictions applicable for passenger. For full details see:
For details, click here .