POS to Tobago--any advice?

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:06 am

We will be flying from POS to Tobago in a few weeks, but we haven't booked our flights yet. Is there any advantage to one airline over another?

Thomas Riemer · Post by **Thomas Riemer** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:40 am

Hi Sally !!

My experience: Go for a TB (Tobago Express) ticket.
We had a BW (BWIA Express) E-ticket and missed our flight.
There was a TB operating at the same price/servcie/whatsoever
but they did not accept the BW ticket. TB operates more flights than BW
and in the(unlikely) event of a delay.....
Brgds Thomas
P.S.: NO lighters/matches on TB-flt.

Trish · Post by **Trish** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:31 pm

Our experience was a little different. We thought we had a BWIA ticket, got our boarding passes for the POS to TAB flight when we were checked in at JFK, but when we arrived in POS, our boarding passes weren't valid and had to change them in for boarding passes at the Tobago Express counter (no extra cost), which made it seem that they were all operated by the same people. Same deal on the way home.

Dave Guest · Post by **Dave Guest** » Mon May 17, 2004 2:02 pm

Our experience was the same as Trish's. We had BWIA tickets from Heathrow to Tobago via POS and when we checked in at Heathrow they gave us our boarding cards for POS.

At POS we had to collect our luggage then re-checkin on a Tobago Express flight. Nowhere on the tickets or in our itinery did it mention Tobago Express but that's what we ended up on. It was only by asking several different people at POS that we ended up at the check in desk for the Tobago Express where they gave us new boarding cards.

Tobago Express is run by BWIA so I don't know why they can't use the boarding cards issued at the point of embarkation. Instead they give you a crappy handwritten slip of paper with just a seat number and flight number scrawled on it.

On the way home our luggage was checked through all the way back to Heathrow so we didn't have to collect it at POS which was a bonus. The only problem this time was that they decided to put everyone from 2 flights onto the same plane so several people had the same seats allocated. In the end they just told people to find any vacant seat and sit there. By some mathematical miracle everybody managed to get a seat and the flight schedule returned to "on time" since they'd squeezed 2 flights into 1.