The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Blackpoint
Blackpoint, written Black Point on the charts, is the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays, about 230 nautical miles southeast of Miami on Great Guana Cay. Its houses stand on a ridge above the bank, and it is a working settlement rather than a resort, with a school, churches and a few small shops. It has a paved airstrip beside the settlement and a public dock, and both are on the Bahamian list of ports of entry. So the real question is not whether an aircraft reaches the island, but which one suits your day: wheels on the strip, or a helicopter at a site agreed before the day.
Charter flights from Miami to Blackpoint 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 entry stop if the routing needs one, and both border filings are ours. There is no terminal at the other end and no ferry crowd, so the day starts the moment you step off the aircraft. Your party brings passports and a bag, per the travel documents guidance.
Three aircraft fly this route and each has its own page: a small plane to the paved strip, a private plane for the whole cabin and a helicopter low over the cays. The choice right below this block puts the small plane and the helicopter side by side, and if you are still unsure, ask us: we quote all three for your date. The same departures by aircraft are listed under Helicopter Charter from Miami, Small Plane Charter from Miami to the Keys and the Bahamas, Miami Private Jet Charter, Seaplane Charter from Miami and Private Plane Charter from Miami.
Plan Your Blackpoint Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Blackpoint: Small Plane or Helicopter
Your island escape starts with the flight. You can choose between several aircraft for a private journey to Blackpoint 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.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Blackpoint Work
Private charter flights from Miami to Blackpoint follow the same six steps, whatever the aircraft. Here is what every one of them includes, from the first message to the moment you step ashore in the settlement.
Plan Your Blackpoint CharterDistance and Aircraft
230 Nautical Miles Across the Gulf Stream and the Bank
Miami to Blackpoint is about 230 nautical miles, across the Gulf Stream and the bank and down into the middle of the Exuma chain. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft and comes back with the quote, plus the entry stop if the routing needs one.
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 every 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
The Paved Strip and a Site Agreed Ahead of Time
A small plane lands on the paved strip beside the settlement, a short way from the houses on the ridge.
A helicopter needs no strip: where it sets down is agreed with the operator ahead of time, at a site cleared for it. Either way there is no terminal at the other end and no queue, only the settlement a short ride away.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Filings
The strip and the public dock at Blackpoint are on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so a routing can clear on arrival or at a larger field on the way, Nassau for example. Which one comes back with the quote. Passengers carry a passport, children included. What counts as valid is in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, a Cart and Occasions Set Up With the Flight
Whatever the day is for is organised before you leave: catering on board, because the settlement has a few small kitchens and a bakery and not much more, a cart waiting at the strip, flowers for a birthday.
A basket bought in the settlement flies home in the same cabin it came out in. A proposal is planned into the flight as a custom experience rather than around it.
How Long the Day Runs
A Long Day Trip or Several Nights in the Exumas
Many parties fly down in the morning and home the same evening, and the aircraft waits while you are on the island. Staying longer in the Exumas 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 Blackpoint 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 Blackpoint 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 wheels and rotor makes itself: a load of gear points one way, a party that wants the view low over the bank the other.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we fix the departure point, the entry stop and the landing site. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a cart at the strip 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.
In the Exumas
Where Charter Flights Miami to Blackpoint Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down for Blackpoint depends on the aircraft. Wheels end on the paved strip beside the settlement, and a helicopter ends at a site agreed before the day. Below is what waits at the other end, and what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Blackpoint CharterA Ridge Settlement on the Bank
Most Asked For
Blackpoint is the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays and the second largest in the Exumas after George Town. It stands on a ridge above the bank, with a big anchorage below it where visiting boats lie. People live here all year, which explains the look of the place: a school, churches, a few small shops, houses climbing the ridge, a public dock at the water and no resort strip. A party that arrives on its own aircraft arrives quietly, with no ferry crowd around it. Everything sits within a short ride or a walk, so the afternoon starts as soon as you step down. What there is to do on the island itself is on the Blackpoint destination page, and anything unusual goes to custom requests.
The Paved Strip Beside the Settlement
Wheels DownBlackpoint has an airstrip of its own, paved and public, a short way from the houses on the ridge. A small plane lands there on wheels, and the transfer is a cart or a walk rather than a boat. The strip is on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so a routing can clear on arrival or at a larger field on the way. The details are on the small plane from Miami to Blackpoint page, and the private plane from Miami to Blackpoint page covers the whole cabin for your party. The aircraft stays parked there for your return. On a day trip that means a short walk back in the afternoon and no check-in at all. A cart booked with the flight takes the bags and a cooler from the strip to wherever the day begins, so nobody carries anything up the ridge in the sun. See ground transport for how it is set up.
By Helicopter, Without a Runway
Site Agreed AheadA helicopter does not need the strip. It flies low enough that the bank and the cuts between the cays stay readable, and it ends the crossing at the island itself, without a second aircraft or a boat at the other end. Where it sets down is agreed with the operator before the day, at a site cleared for it. The details are on the helicopter from Miami to Blackpoint page. Because the aircraft stays with your party, the afternoon can run as long as the settlement deserves, and the hour home is the one you set. It also suits a party that wants the crossing itself as the highlight: the deep blue of the Gulf Stream, the pale bank, the dark cuts between the cays and then the ridge, all in one unbroken view.
Palm Weaving and the Settlement Kitchens
Worth the Walk
The craft Blackpoint is known for is weaving from palm leaves: baskets and hats made by hand in the shade of the settlement and sold straight from the work. A basket bought on the ridge flies home in the same cabin it came out in. A few small kitchens and a bakery feed the village and the visiting boats, and they are small, so a group lunch is better planned ahead. Tell us the hour you want to eat when you send the date, and how many are in the party, so a table is waiting rather than being found. Catering can travel on board, and a fly and dine day sets a table waiting.
The Blowhole on the Sound Side
Better With Some Swell
The settlement faces the calm bank, but the other side of the island faces Exuma Sound. There the swell presses through the limestone and shoots up through a blowhole, a short walk across the ridge from the houses. How high it goes depends on the sea that day, so it is worth more on a day with some swell than on a flat calm one. The rock on that side is sharp, so shoes with a grip are worth packing. Ask for it when you send the date, and anything else you want to see goes to custom requests. Because the blowhole is on the far side of the ridge, it fits the gap between lunch and the flight home, and the aircraft waits for you either way.
Staniel Cay, Five Miles North
Minutes North
Staniel Cay is about five miles north, with Thunderball Grotto, which is best at slack tide, and the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay a short run away. A day that starts at Blackpoint can carry on there with the same aircraft, and island hopping is the way to plan it as one booking. Thunderball Grotto is a cave in a small cay that you swim into at slack tide, so the hour decides it, not the day. Name the stop with your date and the order of the day is built around the tide, with the aircraft waiting wherever you land. The flights to it are on the Miami to Staniel Cay page.
Little Farmer's Cay, Nine Miles South
A Short Hop South
Little Farmer's Cay lies about nine miles south: a village of about sixty people on an island under two miles long, with a sheltered harbour and no resort. The two make an easy pair for a long weekend in the Exumas: one night in the largest settlement of the cays, one in a village of sixty, and the same aircraft held for the move between them. The flights to it are on the Miami to Farmer's Cay page, and a beach picnic on a sandbar is a good reason to go.
Onward Through the Bahamas From the Exumas
Domestic After Entry
Blackpoint also works as the middle of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to the rest of the Exumas, Nassau, Harbour Island or Andros. That is how one island becomes a Bahamas day, and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book Charter Flights to Blackpoint 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 Blackpoint 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 Blackpoint: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Blackpoint: what the crossing looks like, who sets the hour, who files the border and what people fly down to mark. Other flights to the Bahamas work the same way, most of them shorter.
Miami to Blackpoint Charter Flights: Over the Gulf Stream and the Bank
Gulf Stream, the bank and the ridge settlement seen from the air
This is a long crossing, and none of it is dead time. The water goes from harbour green to the deep blue of the Gulf Stream, then the pale bank, then the Exuma Cays in turquoise over white sand, laid out end to end. How you see it depends on the aircraft. A helicopter stays low enough to read the cuts between the cays. A small plane gives everybody a window and lands on the paved strip beside the settlement. A private plane keeps the whole cabin for your party. The last minutes are the reason people ask for a window seat: the settlement stands out on its ridge above the bank, with the anchorage below it and the pale shallows running out toward the Exuma Sound side. That is why charter flights to Blackpoint from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. Boats lying in the anchorage are the first sign you are there, and the whole cabin belongs to your party, every window included.
Private Flights to Blackpoint from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Blackpoint
Private flights to Blackpoint 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 the afternoon in the settlement runs long or the walk along the ridge 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 in the Exumas are planned the same way: three times from you, one aircraft held for your party and nobody else's schedule anywhere in the day. An early departure gives you the whole day on the island, and an evening return has you back in Miami for a late dinner. Every hour in between belongs to your party and to nobody else.
Miami to Blackpoint Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Blackpoint crossing
Miami to Blackpoint 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. The strip and the public dock at Blackpoint are on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so a routing can clear on arrival or at a larger field on the way, Nassau for example, and which one comes back with the quote. 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 cays, and the aircraft lands where the United States can clear you, which is part of the plan we send with the quote. The passport list is all we need, and the crew updates the filing if a detail changes.
Charter Flights Miami to Blackpoint: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day in the settlement, a long weekend or a week in the Exumas
Most people who fly down mark something. Charter flights Miami to Blackpoint are booked for a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary or a family trip the children talk about for years. Some parties fly down for the day and are home late, others stay a few nights in the Exumas 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 the hour of a long lunch in the settlement 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 Blackpoint from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Blackpoint?
Blackpoint is about 230 nautical miles southeast of Miami, on Great Guana Cay in the middle of the Exuma chain. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft and comes back with the quote, together with the entry stop if the routing needs one.
What really sets the length of the day is the border on both sides and how long you want on the island.
The crossing is open sea first, then the pale shallows of the bank, and Great Guana Cay comes up with the settlement on its ridge. On a day trip most parties spend the middle of the day on the ridge, not in the air.
What is the best way to get to Blackpoint?
It depends on what you carry and what you want to see. A small plane lands on the paved airstrip beside the settlement and handles more weight. A helicopter needs no strip, flies low over the bank and sets down at a site agreed with the operator first.
A private plane keeps the whole cabin for your party. Scheduled seats to the strip come out of Nassau, which means a connection, while a charter flies from Miami straight to the island. We quote the options side by side.
Do I need a passport to fly to Blackpoint?
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 Blackpoint?
Yes. Blackpoint has a paved airstrip beside the settlement, and a small plane on wheels lands there, close enough to the houses that the transfer is a cart or a walk rather than a boat. Light aircraft out of Nassau use the same strip, so an arrival on wheels is routine.
Many cays in this part of the chain have no airstrip at all and a day there ends with a boat from somebody else's runway, so landing on the island itself is what makes Blackpoint an easy day. A helicopter needs no strip at all and sets down at a site agreed with the operator first.
Where do you clear customs on the way to Blackpoint?
The strip and the public dock at Blackpoint are both on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so a routing can clear on arrival or at a larger field on the way, Nassau for example.
Which one depends on the aircraft and the date and comes back with the quote. The filings are ours, so for your party it is a short pause with passports in hand, not a second trip.
Can you take a day trip to Blackpoint?
Yes. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so the return is set by you and not by a timetable. Out early, a walk along the ridge, lunch in the settlement and back in the evening, with both borders handled.
Lunch is best planned ahead, because the kitchens there are small. It is a full day, so many parties stay a night or two in the Exumas instead; tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for that day.
How much baggage can we take?
It is a question of weight, not of the number of bags, and it differs by aircraft. A helicopter carries less than a small plane.
Say what is coming when you enquire, including snorkel gear, rods, cameras and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft. If the load decides it, the aircraft is chosen around what you bring, not the other way round.
What is there to do at Blackpoint?
Blackpoint is the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays, so it is a place to walk and eat rather than a resort. The craft it is known for is weaving from palm leaves, a few small kitchens and a bakery feed the visitors, and on the Exuma Sound side the swell presses through a blowhole in the limestone.
Staniel Cay, with Thunderball Grotto and the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay, is about five miles north, and anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests. On a charter there is no terminal and no queue, which is what makes a long day work with small children.
Can we fly on to another island from Blackpoint afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to Staniel Cay, Great Exuma, Nassau, Andros or Harbour Island, 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.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day?
Every aircraft handles weather differently. 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 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. Scheduled seats to Blackpoint come out of Nassau, so reaching the island that way means a connection and a lost day. A charter buys you the aircraft: your departure, your return, your party only, and the entry stop handled for you.
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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