Air BVI primarily flew between the Beef Island Airport (EIS) on Tortola and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU, then best known as "Isla Verde International Airport") in San Juan, Puerto Rico, providing connecting flights to and from major air carriers serving San Juan in order to enable tourists to visit the British Virgin Islands as well as providing transportation for local BVI residents and also served other destinations in the BVI such as Anegada and Virgin Gorda.
In May 1993 it suffered its only major incident when one of its aircraft overran the runway at Beef Island on Tortola during an aborted takeoff, and landed in the sea.
The 15 April 1975 Official Airline Guide (OAG) listed four roundtrip nonstop flights operated on a daily basis by Air BVI between Tortola and San Juan with small Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander twin prop commuter aircraft which featured STOL capabilities.
[2] The 16 December 1980 Air BVI system timetable listed nonstop service between the airline's small hub in Tortola and Anegada, Antigua, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, San Juan and Virgin Gorda with flights operated with 30-passenger seat Douglas DC-3 aircraft and eight-passenger seat Britten-Norman Islander aircraft.
[citation needed] By 1985, Air BVI had replaced its DC-3 aircraft with larger Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprops and was operating up to seven roundtrip HS 748 flights a day nonstop between Tortola and San Juan in addition to flying twice daily nonstop service between Virgin Gorda and San Juan with Britten-Norman Islander aircraft.