Getting There

From North America's East Coast, you can be in Bermuda in approximately 2 hours. From London, England, the trip takes about 7 hours.

American Airlines (tel. 800/433-7300; www.aa.com) flies nonstop, twice a day, from New York's JFK Airport and once daily from Miami. Departures coincide with dozens of connecting flights from elsewhere in North America.

Delta (tel. 800/221-1212; www.delta.com) offers daily nonstop service from Boston and New York and two flights daily from Atlanta.

Continental Airlines (tel. 800/231-0856; www.continental.com) offers nonstop service from New Jersey's Newark Airport. Departures are twice daily. The low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways (tel. 800/JET-BLUE; www.jetblue.com) now offers two daily nonstop flights between New York and Bermuda. The 2-hour flights originate at Kennedy International Airport.

US Airways (tel. 800/428-4322; www.usairways.com) offers daily nonstop flights from Washington, DC.

USA3000 Airlines, a low-fare, full-service airline, is now the newest air route to Bermuda, flying three times weekly from the Baltimore/Washington International Airport and twice weekly from Newark. For more information, check www.USA3000.com.

United Airlines (tel. 800/241-6522; www.united.com) offers daily service from Chicago.

Air Canada (tel. 888/247-2262; www.aircanada.ca) offers daily nonstop flights from Toronto, with frequent connections into Toronto from virtually every other city in Canada. The flight departs around 9am, permitting convenient connections from Montreal and Quebec City. The airline also offers a nonstop flight from Halifax on Saturday at noon.

The airline of choice from the United Kingdom is British Airways (tel. 0870/850-9850; www.britishairways.com). It flies from London's Gatwick Airport about four times a week, year-round. No other airline flies nonstop between Britain and Bermuda.

Most airlines offer the best deals on tickets booked at least 14 days in advance, with a stopover in Bermuda of at least 3 days. You might need to stay over on a Saturday night to keep fares down. Airfares fluctuate according to the season, but tend to remain competitive among the companies vying for a piece of the lucrative Bermuda run.

Peak season (summer) is the most expensive time to go; low season (usually from mid-Sept to mid-Mar) sees less expensive fares. The airlines that fly to Bermuda seldom observe a shoulder (intermediate) season. Because most aircraft flying from North America to Bermuda are medium-size, there's space for only two classes of service: first class and economy.