The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Chub Cay
Chub Cay is the southern tip of the Berry Islands, about 133 nautical miles of open water east of Miami. That makes it a crossing where every aircraft we fly makes sense. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and the way you want to arrive. A family with bags, a couple going for lunch and anglers heading to a boat will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Chub Cay 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 marina, a small plane to the Chub Cay runway, a helicopter with the view under glass 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 Chub Cay Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Chub Cay: Seaplane, Small Plane, Helicopter or Private Jet
Your island escape starts with the flight. You can choose between several aircraft for a private journey to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Chub Cay on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Chub Cay on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Chub Cay on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay CharterDistance and Aircraft
133 Nautical Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to Chub Cay is about 133 nautical miles, across the Gulf Stream and the Great Bahama Bank to the southern end of the Berry Islands. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft: the seaplane and the other three each come back with their own time in 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
The Marina for Floats, the Runway for Wheels
A seaplane settles on the water beside the marina on Chub Cay, a few steps from the dock. A small plane and a jet land on the 5,000-foot runway across the island, a short road from the same marina, so there is no ferry and no second island to reach.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
Chub Cay is an airport of entry with customs on the island, so every aircraft clears on arrival and flies straight in. The desk works from 7 am to 5 pm, and passengers carry a passport, children included. 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 on Chub Cay
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 Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay 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: calm water and a berth at the marina point one way, a load of 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 Chub Cay Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down on Chub Cay depends on the aircraft. Floats end on the water beside the marina, wheels end on the runway across the island, and the two are a short road apart. Below is what waits at each end, and what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Chub Cay CharterChub Cay Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane and the jet arrive at Chub Cay International Airport, 5,000 feet of bitumen across the island, with customs and immigration in the one terminal building. Because the airport is a port of entry, the formalities happen where you step out, usually in minutes, since the crew filed everything before departure. The desk works from 7 am to 5 pm, 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 cart or 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 short walk back in the evening and no check-in at all.
The Marina for the Seaplane
On the Water
A seaplane skips the runway altogether. It lands on the water off the south shore and taxis in beside the marina, a few steps from the dock and the boats. Water landings run from thirty minutes after sunrise to thirty minutes before sunset, and the border is handled on arrival here too. The details are on the seaplane from Miami to Chub Cay 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.
Runway and Marina on One Island
No Ferry
On most out islands the runway is on one cay and the water you came for is on another, so the day has a taxi and a boat built into it. Here the marina sits on the same island as the strip, a short road apart. For a day trip that is worth more than flight time. A morning arrival is on a boat or in the water before the day has properly started, and the walk back to the aircraft in the evening is minutes. A golf cart or a car can wait at the apron or at the dock, so the whole hop from the aircraft to the boat is arranged before you land, bags included.
Mama Rhoda Rock and the Reef
Five Minutes Out
Mama Rhoda Rock lies a few hundred yards west of the marina, with staghorn coral in the shallows and eels in the cuts. Snorkellers and divers look at the same reef from different depths. The wider reef starts about five minutes out by boat, with sites from ten feet down to a hundred, and the Chub Cay wall beyond carries drop-offs, caves and caverns. What else there is to do is covered on the Chub Cay destination page, and anything unusual goes to custom requests. For a day trip, the reef, the dock and lunch fit easily between the morning flight and the evening one, because nothing on the island is more than a few minutes away.
Flying Over the Bank and the Deep
Seen From Above
The last minutes from Miami are the best part of the flight. The shallow turquoise of the Great Bahama Bank runs out under the aircraft, and on a sunny morning you see the sandbars and the flats clearly. Then the bottom falls away into the Tongue of the Ocean, a trench of around six thousand feet, in one hard dark line off the south shore. It is one of the reasons people ask for scenic flights on the approach. Ask the crew to come in low over the edge if the day allows, and have a camera ready on the side facing south.
The Pocket and the Billfish Grounds
Why the Boats Come
North-west of the island the deep trench pushes up against the shallow bank in a corner known as the Pocket. Blue marlin, white marlin, sailfish, tuna, wahoo and mahi-mahi work that edge, so Chub Cay is called the billfish capital of the Bahamas. For the flight that means tournament dates and tide windows set the day. Anglers ask for the earliest departure of the morning, and on a charter that is just the hour you name. Flats fishing on the bank fits into the same trip. Chub Cay carries one of the two blue holes in the Berry Island chain, and the rest of the chain runs north from here, about thirty islands and more than a hundred cays, most of them uninhabited.
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, golf clubs, 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 the water landing beside the marina becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Chub Cay
Domestic After Chub Cay
Chub Cay 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, about 33 nautical miles away, Andros, Harbour Island, Grand Bahama 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 Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Chub Cay: 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 Chub Cay Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same 133 miles 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 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. Off Chub Cay the bank ends in a dark line where the Tongue of the Ocean drops to six thousand feet. So charter flights to Chub Cay from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats and the sandbars on the bank side are just as clear. Nobody on board has to lean over a stranger to see it, because the whole cabin belongs to your party. Home in the afternoon light, the same water is a second view.
Private Flights to Chub Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Chub Cay
Private flights to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Chub Cay crossing
Miami to Chub Cay 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. Chub Cay clears every aircraft on the island, so none 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: we send your passport list 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 Chub Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Chub Cay
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Chub Cay?
Chub Cay is about 133 nautical miles east of Miami, at the southern end of the Berry Islands. How long the aircraft needs depends on which one you take and the field you leave from, and the time for each 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 Chub Cay?
It depends on what you carry and how you want to arrive. A seaplane lands on the water beside the marina, a few steps from the dock. A small plane or a jet lands on the 5,000-foot runway 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. Runway and marina are on the same small island, so none of the four ends with a ferry.
Do I need a passport to fly to Chub Cay?
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 Chub Cay?
Yes. Chub Cay International Airport has a 5,000-foot paved runway with customs and immigration on the field, so a small plane or a jet lands and clears in the same place. A seaplane lands on the water beside the marina and clears on arrival as well.
Either way there is no extra stop on the way. The desk works from 7 am to 5 pm, which is why a morning departure is the easy one. Which option suits your day is the first thing we answer when you send your dates.
Where does the flight land on Chub Cay?
That depends on the aircraft. Runway aircraft land at Chub Cay International Airport, and the marina is a short road away on the same island. A seaplane lands on the water beside the marina, so you step off close to the dock. There is no ferry on this route, and every option clears customs on arrival.
Can you take a day trip to Chub Cay?
Yes, and it is a common way 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. Anglers often try a day 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.
Fishing gear and dive tanks 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.
Is Chub Cay good for families?
It suits families who want quiet water more than a busy resort town. The island is small, the reef and the shallows are minutes from the marina and there is no ferry to catch after you land. 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. Only a few dozen people live on the cay, so meals and transport are planned with us before you fly.
Can we fly on to another island from Chub Cay afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at Chub Cay, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to Nassau, about 33 nautical miles away, to Andros or to 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 a delay of an hour or two often solves it within the customs hours.
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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