elgreaux
Senior Insider
Our flight from PHL to SXM on AA was slightly late in arriving yesterday due to a detour to avoid Hermine.. we landed at 2:10pm instead of 1:49pm but since our SB Commuter flight was at 3:15pm we figured no sweat, as we had only carry on... so we were a bit surprised to find the agent from SB Commuter very nicely waiting for us in the arrivals area before the transit desks with our boarding passes in hand... the thing was, to our surprise, there was a long line at the transit security line, where usually there are very few people.. I'd say there were 30 to 40 people in line... turns out that Air France has made a baggage arrangement with Winair, so all the passengers on Air France from Paris no longer have to clear customs to transit to St Barth or other islands.. so I'd leave a little more time than usual if you are planning to transit through SXM, more people than before are using that line...