Getting to St. John & Water Island
Neither St. John nor Water Island have airports. The nearest airport is on St. Thomas. To visit these islands from the US mainland one must fly to St. Thomas then take a taxi to the ferry terminal/dock and take an inter-island ferry to the final destination. Regular, reliable, inexpensive ferry service is available to both islands from St. Thomas.
Also historically the airport hosted Air Force One and Two, respectively, carrying Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Joe Biden using Boeing 707s and later Boeing 757s.
Cyril E. King Airport also hosted a number of charter jet airliners including the Boeing 757, Boeing 767 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. It was known as Harry S Truman Airport until 1984, when it was renamed to honor Cyril Emmanuel King, the second elected governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.[15] A new passenger terminal opened in November 1990 and retained the name.