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I have my outbound flight shown in the My PO Cruises flights page as Virgin 663, LHR to BGI, departing 09:00 on 4th Feb 23. However the inbound flight, departing ANU on 11th Feb 23 shows as "CARRIER TBA Flight 662" with the destination of just "LONDON (LON)"

OK so based upon the latest email I received from P&O inviting me to upgrade to Virgin Upper class (£995 pp each way 😲), I think it is a safe bet now on who they will be using to operate the Arvia Antigua flights. Bottom of the email does say "flight details on their way..." so still no details yet on which London departure airport, how to book your seats, etc.

Yes, you can, cruises are on sale starting and ending in Antigua on Arvia

I am one of many people that has booked on Arvia for the Caribbean season in winter 22/23 and waiting (still waiting) for details of flights to / from Antigua (in our case the return flight on 11th February, from K303B) There are many posts on Fbook groups asking the same question so it doesn’t seem a case of it just not being my turn - instead there is just no information being provided to anyone by P&O In case you’re not familiar with the situation: For those flying out and back from Barbados for a “traditional” two-week cruise on Arvia, it seems the usual charter flights are all confirmed on TUI as per previous years and guests can book their seats, etc. However, if like me, one or more legs of your journey to / from Arvia is from Antigua, NONE of your flights are confirmed. All I know is that I have flights booked from “London”, but don’t even know which airport (LHR or LGW) nor whether I might even have to fly out from one and back to the other Does anyone on here have any intel, at least regarding WHEN the Antigua flights will be confirmed? I found a press release from Antigua Cruise Port online stating an estimated 800 passengers will be handled during each homeport visit for Arvia. My hunch (and it is just that, I have no information to back this up) is P&O must therefore be negotiating with airline(s) to provide dedicated charter flights to mirror those already contracted with TUI out to Barbados The rationale being that whilst there are 2 scheduled flights a day to ANU from the UK (Virgin from LHR and BA from LGW), between them they would only offer 350-odd Economy / PE seats in total and that’s assuming P&O were able to book the whole a/c, which is highly unlikely seeing it’s peak winter season. Also, flights from Manchester are being offered by P&O and there is no scheduled option there. Will be interesting to see which airline P&O end up with since I’m not sure TUI have the additional 2 or 3 787s spare on a winter Saturday that would be needed (Premium seats are being sold by P&O so whichever carrier they use will need to be able to offer some kind of “premium” cabin). Flightmapper is usually a good source for info on any type of passenger flight (all this seasons’ P&O TUI charters are on there) but as of now nothing showing for Antigua apart from the above BA & Virgin