The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Berry Islands
The Berry Islands are a chain of about thirty islands east of Miami, from Great Harbour Cay at about 124 nautical miles to Chub Cay at about 133. Both ends have a runway and a border desk, so every aircraft we fly makes sense here. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and the end of the chain you want to wake up on. A family with bags, a couple going to a beach and anglers heading to a boat will not pick the same one.
Charter flights from Miami to Berry Islands 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 that reaches the cays, a small plane to Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay, a helicopter low over the chain 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 Berry Islands Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Berry Islands: 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 the Berry Islands 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 the Berry Islands by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to the Berry Islands on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to the Berry Islands on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to the Berry Islands on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Berry Islands Work
Private charter flights from Miami to Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands CharterDistance and Aircraft
Two Ends of the Chain and Four Ways to Fly Them
Great Harbour Cay at the north end is about 124 nautical miles from Miami and Chub Cay at the south end about 133, with the Gulf Stream and then the Great Bahama Bank underneath.
How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft: the seaplane is about 50 minutes, the others come back with the quote. 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
Two Runways for Wheels, Open Water for Floats
A small plane and a jet land at Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay, the only two runways in the Berry Islands. The helicopter clears at one of the same two fields. A seaplane clears there as well and can then set down off one of the cays that have no runway at all.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
Great Harbour Cay and Chub Cay are both ports of entry, so every aircraft clears in the chain and flies straight in. Passengers carry a passport, children included, and everything else 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 in the Berry Islands
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 Berry Islands 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. 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 Berry Islands Flights
Booking a flight takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Berry Islands Charter- 01
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 cay with no runway points one way, a load of fishing gear 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 golf cart 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 Berry Islands Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down in the Berry Islands depends on the aircraft. Wheels end on the runway at Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay, floats clear at one of the two and can then reach the cays with no runway. Below is what waits at each end, and what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Berry Islands CharterGreat Harbour Cay and Chub Cay for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane, the jet and the helicopter all arrive at one of the two runways in the chain: Great Harbour Cay in the north with 4,501 feet of asphalt, or Chub Cay in the south with 5,000 feet. Both airports are ports of entry, so 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 or a golf cart 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.
The Cays Without a Runway, by Seaplane
On the Water
Only two of the roughly thirty islands in the chain have a runway. A seaplane clears at Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay first and can then set your party down on the water off one of the others. That is the way to a cay with nobody on it, a sandbar for the afternoon or a boat waiting offshore, and the details are on the seaplane from Miami to Berry Islands page. The trade is the water. A seaplane needs a calm enough surface to land, so on a rough winter morning the runway is the safer plan, and we tell you that before you book rather than on the day.
Great Harbour Cay and Bullocks Harbour
Where Days Start
Great Harbour Cay is the largest island in the chain, about eight miles long and the one with a settlement on it. Bullocks Harbour is that settlement, and the marina and the airport sit beside it. The beaches run down the ocean side of the island, and golf cart is the transport. What there is to do once you are there is covered on the Berry Islands 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, the harbour, a beach and lunch fit easily between the morning flight and the evening one. Sugar Beach, Shelling Beach and Sand Dollar Hill are the named ones, and most of the rest have no name at all.
Chub Cay and the Deep Water
Billfish Capital
Chub Cay is the southern end of the chain and the point where the shallow bank stops and the deep ocean begins. That edge is why it is called the billfish capital of the Bahamas. It has a marina and its own airport of entry, so parties who come to fish usually land here rather than in the north: the water they came for starts a few minutes offshore. Tournament weekends fill whole aircraft. Great Harbour Cay and Chub Cay are about thirty-five miles apart and nobody drives between them, so which end you land at is the first thing we settle with the quote.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From Above
The last minutes from Miami are the best part of the flight. The deep blue of the Gulf Stream gives way to the turquoise of the Great Bahama Bank, and from a low flying aircraft you see the reef, the sandbars and the flats clearly on a sunny morning. Closer in, the chain breaks up into its cays, more than a hundred of them and most uninhabited. 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 the cays.
Hoffman's Cay and the Blue Hole
A Short Hike
Hoffman's Cay is uninhabited and holds the sight most people have seen a photograph of. The blue hole there is about 600 feet across, with a cliff standing some 20 feet above the water and a short hike in from the beach. It is a stop rather than a day and it works best combined with a beach or a sandbar, on a beach picnic or a wider island hopping afternoon. If the day is about fish rather than swimming, the flats behind the cays hold bonefish, and flats fishing fits into the same trip as the flight from Miami.
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. Golf clubs, dive tanks, rods, a cooler for the boat: 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 off one of the cays becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From the Berry Islands
Domestic After Clearing
The Berry Islands also work as the first stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in here, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas, and Nassau is about sixty miles to the southeast. The same charter can carry on to Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros or Staniel Cay and the Exumas. That is how one island becomes island hopping or a Bahamas day. The ready-made version of a single day is the Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Berry Islands: 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 to a different island.
Miami to Berry Islands Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same stretch of water 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 and stays shallow for most of the way. 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 the approach the chain breaks up into its cays, most of them uninhabited, with the flats and sandbars between them. That is why charter flights to Berry Islands from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. Off Chub Cay the bank stops and the deep water begins, and the line between the two is plain from the air. 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 Berry Islands from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Berry Islands
Private flights to Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Berry Islands crossing
Miami to Berry Islands 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. Great Harbour Cay and Chub Cay are both ports of entry, so no aircraft on this page has to stop anywhere else first. 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 Berry Islands: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate in the Berry Islands
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Berry Islands 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 Berry Islands from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to the Berry Islands?
Great Harbour Cay at the north end is about 124 nautical miles from Miami and Chub Cay at the south end about 133. A seaplane covers it in about 50 minutes in the air. For a small plane, a helicopter or a jet the time 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 the Berry Islands?
It depends on where you want to end up and what you carry. A small plane or a jet lands on the runway at Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay and handles more weight and rougher water.
A seaplane clears at one of the two and can then reach a cay with no runway. A helicopter flies low enough to watch the chain break into its cays. We quote the options side by side so you can compare. Scheduled service into the chain is thin, which is why most people charter.
Do I need a passport to fly to the Berry Islands?
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 in the Berry Islands?
Yes, at two places. Great Harbour Cay Airport has 4,501 feet of asphalt at the north end of the chain and Chub Cay International has 5,000 feet at the south end. Both have a border desk, so a small plane, a jet or a helicopter lands and clears in the same place.
The rest of the chain has no runway, which is where a seaplane comes in after clearing. Which of the two ends suits your day is the first thing we answer when you send your dates and your party size.
Where does the flight land in the Berry Islands?
That depends on the aircraft and the end you choose. Runway aircraft land at Great Harbour Cay, beside Bullocks Harbour and the marina, or at Chub Cay, next to the marina and the deep water. The two are about thirty-five miles apart and nobody drives between them, so it is worth deciding at the enquiry. Both clear customs on arrival.
Can you take a day trip to the Berry Islands?
Yes, and it is one of the most common ways this route is flown. 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 a night, tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for that day. Many guests try a day trip first and come back later for a longer stay.
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 golf clubs, dive gear, rods and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft.
Rods and coolers 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.
Are the Berry Islands good for families?
They suit families who want a quiet day out of Miami: the beaches are wide and mostly empty, the water on the bank side is shallow and warm and Great Harbour Cay is small enough to get around by golf cart.
Children need passports like everybody else. On a charter there is no terminal and no queue, which is usually what makes the difference with small children. The blue hole on Hoffman's Cay is a short walk from the beach.
Can we fly on to another island from the Berry Islands afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at Great Harbour Cay or Chub Cay, every leg after it is domestic. Nassau is about sixty miles southeast, and the same aircraft can carry on there, to Andros or the Exumas, 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 with two runways in the chain a delay of an hour or two often solves it.
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. 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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