The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Andros
Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas, and its north end sits about 124 nautical miles of open water and shallow bank east of Miami. It is also an island where every aircraft we fly makes sense, because it has water to land on and four runways. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and the part of the island you want to wake up on. A lodge full of anglers, a couple going for a dive and a family heading to a house on the east shore will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Andros are private: the whole aircraft is yours and nobody else is on board. You name the hour, we set the aircraft, the crew and the field it leaves from, and both border filings are ours. Your party brings passports and a bag, per the travel documents guidance.
Four aircraft fly this route and each has its own page: a seaplane to the creeks and the flats, a small plane to the four runways, a helicopter with glass on every side and a private jet. The choice right below this block shows you the difference in one look, and if you are still unsure, ask us: we quote them side by side for your date.
Plan Your Andros Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Andros: Seaplane, Small Plane, Helicopter or Private Jet
Your island escape starts with the flight. Choose a seaplane, small plane, helicopter or private jet for a private journey to Andros with breathtaking ocean views. Tell us your travel dates, group size and what you’re bringing. We’ll help you find the perfect aircraft for your needs and preferences.
Seaplane
Fly privately to Andros by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Andros on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Andros on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Andros on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Bahamas Work
Private charter flights from Miami follow the same six steps, whatever the aircraft. Here is what every one of them includes, from the first message to the moment you are on the island.
Plan Your Andros CharterDistance and Aircraft
Three Arrival Points and Four Ways to Fly Them
The north end of Andros is about 124 nautical miles from Miami, Fresh Creek in the middle about 145 and Congo Town in the south about 172, with the Gulf Stream and then the Great Bahama Bank underneath.
How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft and the end you fly to, and the time comes back with the quote for the seaplane and the others alike. Either way the flight is the short part of the day.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party on Board and No Seats Sold
Every flight on this page is a charter, so the cabin is yours and the departure time is the one you give us. That is the difference to a scheduled seat, and it holds for all four aircraft. A larger party simply flies a larger aircraft or a second one, and the party still travels on one booking.
Where Each One Lands
Creek Water for Floats, a Runway for Wheels
A seaplane can finish at a creek mouth, off a beach or alongside a boat on Andros once it has cleared in. A small plane and a jet land at San Andros, Andros Town or Congo Town, each with a border desk on the field. The helicopter clears at one of the same ports of entry, so it lands with the others.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
San Andros, Andros Town and Congo Town are all ports of entry, so almost every aircraft clears where it lands. Mangrove Cay is the exception, and a flight bound there clears at Andros Town first. Passengers carry a passport, children included, and the rest sits on our side. What counts as valid is in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Transfers and Occasions Set Up With the Flight
Whatever the day is for is organised before you leave: catering on board, a car or a golf cart at the other end, flowers for a birthday. A proposal or an anniversary is planned into the flight as a custom experience rather than around it.
How Long the Day Runs
Same-Day Return or Several Nights on Andros
Most parties fly over in the morning and home the same evening, and the aircraft waits while you are on the island. Staying longer is the same booking with a later return. Weather and delays is the only thing that moves the plan.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Private Flights to Andros from Miami
Where your flight leaves from follows the aircraft you pick and where your party is staying. These are the four fields we use around Miami for a flight to the islands. Select one to see exactly where it sits.
Miami Executive
Miami Executive Airport, TMB, Kendall
Kendall-Tamiami, a general aviation field in the south west of the county, and the easy start for a small plane or a helicopter. Parking sits close to the ramp, so the walk to the aircraft is short. Pick it when your party is staying south or west of downtown.
Opa-locka Executive
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, OPF
Opa-locka Executive in the north west, with private terminal handling for every aircraft on this page, a private jet included. Most flights to the islands are dispatched from here, and a return from the Bahamas can clear US customs in the same place. If nothing else decides it, this is where the day begins.
Miami International
Miami International Airport, MIA
Miami International as a pickup, for a party arriving on an airline that wants to go straight on to the island. Set up flight by flight and confirmed with the operator before the quote. Allow extra ground time, because a big commercial airport keeps its own pace.
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Fort Lauderdale Executive, FXE
Fort Lauderdale Executive, for a party staying in Broward or further north. It has its own federal inspection station, so a return from the islands can clear there too. The aircraft comes to you rather than you driving south to it.
How to Book
Book Miami to Andros Flights
Booking a flight takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
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Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and which aircraft you have in mind, or tell us you are not sure yet. Tell us the hour you would like to leave and whether you come back the same day. That is all we need to start.
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Get the Options Back
We check what is free on your date and send the aircraft that fit your party, side by side: seats, bags, time in the air and the price of each. That is usually where the choice between water and runway makes itself: a lodge on a creek and calm water point one way, a load of gear, the far end of the island or a windy forecast the other.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we fix the departure point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a car or ground transport on the island, flowers if the day is a special one. You approve it, you pay, and the boarding time comes back to you.
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Be There 30 Minutes Before
There is no terminal queue on a charter. Arrive half an hour before the time we sent, walk to the aircraft with your bags and take off.
On the Island
Where Charter Flights Miami to Andros Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down on Andros depends on the aircraft and on the end of the island you are going to. Wheels end on a runway at San Andros, Andros Town or Congo Town, floats end on the water once they have cleared in. Below is what waits at each end, and what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Andros CharterThree Ports of Entry for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane, the jet and the helicopter arrive at one of three airfields: San Andros in the north, Andros Town International on Fresh Creek in the middle and Congo Town in the south, each with a paved runway and a border desk. Because all three are ports of entry, the formalities happen where you step out, usually in minutes, since the crew filed everything before departure. The desks keep daytime hours, so a morning flight is the easier one. Tell us at the enquiry if anyone travels on a passport other than a United States one. From the apron a car is waiting if you booked ground transport, and the aircraft stays parked there for your return. On a day trip that means the same walk back in the evening and no check-in at all.
Creeks, Beaches and Boats for the Seaplane
On the Water
A seaplane is not tied to a runway. Once it has cleared in, it can finish at a creek mouth, off a beach or alongside a boat, close to the lodge or the house rather than at a terminal with a drive behind it. Whether a direct set-down works is checked for your date, because the water at the far end, the tide and the clearance decide it. Where it does not, the aircraft goes to the nearest airfield instead. The details are on the seaplane from Miami to Andros page. The trade is the water. A seaplane needs a calm enough surface and daylight to land, so on a rough morning the runway is the safer plan, and we tell you that before you book rather than on the day.
Mangrove Cay and the Last Short Leg
Cleared at Fresh Creek
Clarence A. Bain Airport serves Mangrove Cay, the island between the two bights. Its runway is paved, but it has no border desk of its own. A flight bound there clears at Andros Town first and covers the last few miles afterwards. It is planned into the itinerary before you book, and it is the reason the lodge name matters at the enquiry. We quote both legs so you can see the whole day. A car can wait on the far side, so the whole hop from the aircraft to the lodge is arranged before you land, bags included.
The Bights That Cut Andros in Three
Why the Arrival Point Matters
North Bight and South Bight are channels of open water running straight through Andros, and they are why the island behaves like three: North Andros, Mangrove Cay and South Andros. There is no road between them. That makes the arrival point the first decision of the day, not a detail. What there is to do once you are there is covered on the Andros destination page. If you want a table waiting when you land, add a fly and dine day, and anything unusual goes to custom requests. For a day trip, pick the end your day is about and fly straight there. Longer stays pick a lodge first, and the aircraft follows from it.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From Above
The last part of the flight from Miami is the best part. The deep blue of the Gulf Stream breaks into the pale Great Bahama Bank, and from a low flying aircraft you see the sandbars and the flats clearly on a sunny morning. On the east side the barrier reef runs down the island, with the deep water of the Tongue of the Ocean beyond it. It is one of the reasons people ask for scenic flights on the approach. Ask the crew to come in low over the reef if the day allows, and have a camera ready on the side facing east.
Blue Holes and Bonefish Flats
What Andros Is Known For
Andros has the highest concentration of blue holes in the world, more than a hundred and eighty of them inland and along the shore. From the aircraft they read as dark circles in pale ground, and some are deep enough to dive. The creeks, flats and mangrove cays on the west side are why so many guests arrive with rod tubes, and the lodges have them on the water at first light. Flats fishing has its own page, and a beach picnic fits into a slower day. Both are tide and light questions, so tell us what the day is for and the flight is planned around the hours worth having.
Bags, Gear and Payload by Aircraft
What Each One Carries
What you can bring is a question of weight, and every aircraft answers it differently. Floats carry less than wheels, a helicopter less again, and a jet the most. Rods, dive tanks, hard cases, a cooler for the lodge: tell us at the enquiry and the right aircraft comes back with the quote. The baggage guidance explains the trade between passengers and weight. Anything bigger than luggage travels as island logistics instead. The simple rule: the more you carry, the more the runway aircraft make sense, and the lighter you travel, the more a water landing close to the lodge becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Andros
Domestic After Andros
Andros also works as the first stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in here, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Nassau, Staniel Cay and the Exumas, Harbour Island, Grand Bahama or Bimini. That is how one island becomes island hopping or a Bahamas day. The ready-made version of a single day is the Andros getaway day trip, and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book Charter Flights to Andros from Miami?
Send your date, the number of guests and the aircraft you are leaning towards. You get back what is free, what each option costs and when it can leave, and nothing is booked until you say so.
Add-Ons
Charter Flight to Andros Add-Ons
Name the ones you want when you send your dates and they are priced together with the flight.
In Detail
Flights from Miami to Andros: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Andros: what the crossing looks like, who sets the hour, who files the border and what people fly over to mark. Other flights to the Bahamas work the same way, only further.
Miami to Andros Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same stream and bank seen from four different aircraft
The crossing is not dead time between two airports, whichever aircraft you take. Leaving the coast, the water turns from harbour green to the deep blue of the Gulf Stream, and on the far side the bank comes up turquoise in a single line. How you see it depends on the aircraft. A seaplane and a helicopter stay low enough to read the water, and the helicopter has glass on every side. A small plane gives everybody a window. A private jet climbs over the weather and turns the crossing into a short hop. On a clear morning the bank comes up pale under the aircraft, Andros sits on its eastern edge, and the blue holes show as dark circles in the shallows and inland. That is why charter flights to Andros from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats on the west side are just as clear, and so is the dark line of the barrier reef on the east. Nobody on board has to lean over a stranger to see it, because the whole cabin belongs to your party. An afternoon return shows the same water in a lower light, so the way home is a second view, not a repeat.
Private Flights to Andros from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Andros
Private flights to Andros from Miami have no timetable. The day is built around the hour you name, not around a departure board. You pick the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be on the island and the one you want to be home, and the whole plan is built backwards from those three times. The aircraft is held for your party, so a change a few days before is a message to us. Half an hour before departure is the whole check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go on in front of you and the only names on the list are yours. The same freedom holds on the way back. If lunch runs long or the water is too good to leave, the aircraft waits, and the hour home moves with you instead of a gate closing on you. A day trip and a long weekend on the island are planned the same way: three times from you, one aircraft held for your party and nobody else's schedule anywhere in the day. A morning departure puts you on the sand before the heat builds, and an evening return has you back in Miami for dinner. Every hour in between belongs to your party and to nobody else.
Miami to Andros Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on an Andros crossing
Miami to Andros flights cross an international border twice in one day, and that is the part that goes wrong when nobody prepares it. The Bahamas asks for a declaration filed from Florida, clearance at a port of entry on arrival and a US return filed before you head home. San Andros, Andros Town and Congo Town are ports of entry, so the aircraft clears where it lands, and the one exception, Mangrove Cay, is planned into the route. The crew files all of it. Your party carries a valid passport and nothing else, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel is in the baggage guidance. A name added or dropped before the day is a message to us, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. Coming home works the same way in reverse. The return is filed before you leave the island, and the aircraft lands where the United States can clear you, which is part of the plan we send with the quote. None of this is paperwork your party fills in at a counter. The passport list is all we need from you, and we send it on with the filings before the day, so nothing waits for you at the desk. If a detail changes on the day, the crew updates the filing.
Charter Flights Miami to Andros: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Andros
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Andros are booked for a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary or a weekend away with the people who matter, and the flight is short enough that the occasion stays the point of the day. Some parties fly over for the day and are home for dinner, others stay a few nights and book the return for the day they want. The whole party travels together on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef and flowers travel with you, set up before you board. The date comes first and the aircraft is planned around it, so a dinner booking or a boat leaving at a set hour decides when you fly, not the other way round. Tell us the occasion and the number of guests with your date, and the quote comes back with the aircraft, the hours and whatever you asked to have on board, ready for you to confirm with one reply.
Questions
Charter Flights to Andros from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Andros?
The north end of Andros is about 124 nautical miles from Miami, Fresh Creek in the middle about 145 and Congo Town in the south about 172, so the answer moves with where on the island you are going.
The time in the air also depends on the aircraft and the field you leave from, and it comes back with the quote. What really sets the length of the day is the border on both sides and how long you stay. On a day trip most parties spend far longer on the island than in the air.
What is the best way to get to Andros?
It depends on where you want to end up and what you carry. A seaplane can finish at a creek mouth, off a beach or alongside a boat once it has cleared in.
A small plane or a jet lands on a runway at either end or in the middle and handles more weight and rougher water. A helicopter gives the widest view on the way over. We quote the options side by side so you can compare.
Do I need a passport to fly to Andros?
Yes, every passenger needs one, children included. The Bahamas is another country, and a private aircraft does not change that. We take the passport details once when you enquire and file the manifest for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger sends and by when, including the cases that need more notice. Nothing else has to be printed or carried.
Can a plane land on Andros?
Yes, on four paved runways. San Andros serves the north, Andros Town at Fresh Creek the middle, Clarence A. Bain on Mangrove Cay and Congo Town the south. Three of them have a border desk on the field, so a small plane, a jet or a helicopter lands and clears in the same place.
A seaplane clears at a port of entry and then sets down on the water. Which suits your day is the first thing we answer when you send your dates and your party size.
Which part of Andros should we fly to?
That is the real question on this route. North Andros, Mangrove Cay and South Andros are separated by the bights, open water with no road across it, so two places both described as being on Andros can need different arrival plans.
Anglers usually name the flats, divers the reef on the east side, and a party with a lodge booked has the answer already. Send the name of the lodge or the house and the arrival point comes back with the quote.
Can you take a day trip to Andros?
Yes, though Andros rewards a night more than most of the closer islands. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so the return is set by you and not by a timetable. Out in the morning, back in the evening, with both borders handled.
If you would rather stay, tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for that day. If the day is built around the flats or a dive, say so: the tide decides which hours are worth having.
How much baggage can we take?
It is a question of weight, not of the number of bags, and it differs by aircraft. Floats carry less than wheels, and a jet carries the most. Say what is coming when you enquire, including rods, dive gear, coolers and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft.
Fishing and dive gear are common on this route, so they are rarely a problem once we know about them. If the load decides it, the aircraft is chosen around what you bring, not the other way round.
Where does the flight clear customs on Andros?
On the field you land on, in almost every case. San Andros, Andros Town and Congo Town are all listed as ports of entry, so a runway aircraft lands and clears in the same place. Mangrove Cay is the one exception: a flight bound there clears at Andros Town first and flies the last short leg afterwards. A seaplane clears at a port of entry before it sets down on the water. None of the paperwork is yours.
Can we fly on to another island from Andros afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas on Andros, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to Nassau, the Exumas or Bimini, as long as the next island has a place for it to land. Tell us the shape of the whole trip when you enquire and it is quoted as one booking. Where the next island only has water to land on, that leg switches to a seaplane.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day?
Every aircraft handles weather differently. A seaplane needs calm enough water to land, a small plane and a jet use the runway and a jet can climb above much of it. If conditions are below what is safe, the crew moves or cancels the flight and the weather and delays policy says what that means for your booking. That call is always the crew's, and summer afternoons move more flights than mornings do.
Is a charter cheaper than a scheduled flight?
No, and it is not meant to be. A scheduled seat is cheaper because someone else picked the time and you share the aircraft. A charter buys you the aircraft: your departure, your return, your party only and the end of the island you choose.
On a day trip that usually means several more hours on the island, and no waiting in a terminal on either side of the water, which is the comparison worth making. We send the price for the whole aircraft, so you can split it across your party and compare fairly. Tell us what matters most, the time on the island, the landing point or the budget, and we suggest the aircraft that fits it best.
Can I bring a pet on a charter flight?
Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.
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