The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Long Island Bahamas
Long Island lies far down the Bahamas chain, about 345 miles of open water from Miami to its northern tip. The island is eighty miles long, with two paved runways and a calm western shore, so the right way in depends on your party, your bags and which end of the island you want to wake up on. A family with bags, a couple going for the blue hole and friends heading for the flats will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Long Island Bahamas 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 western shore, a small plane to Stella Maris, a helicopter low over Cape Santa Maria 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 Long Island Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Long Island Bahamas: 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 Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Long Island Bahamas on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Long Island Bahamas on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Long Island Bahamas on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Long Island 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 Long Island CharterDistance and Aircraft
About 345 Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to the north end of Long Island is about 345 statute miles, close to 300 nautical, and Clarence Town in the south is nearer 375. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft and the field: the block time of a small plane follows which end you land at, and every aircraft's time comes back with the quote.
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, the Western Shore for Floats
A small plane and a jet land on the asphalt at Stella Maris in the north, and a small plane can carry on to Deadman's Cay in the south. A seaplane settles on the calm western shore of Long Island. Where the helicopter sets down is agreed with the operator before the day.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Clearance at Stella Maris
Stella Maris is the island's airport of entry, with customs on the field, so the arrival clears on Long Island itself. Deadman's Cay is domestic only. Passengers carry a passport, children included, and everything else sits on our side, per 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 on the apron for the long island road, 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 Long Island
A same-day return works, and in a jet it is an ordinary outing: the blue hole before lunch and Miami in the evening. Staying longer is the same booking with a later return, and the aircraft waits while you are on the island. Weather and delays is the only thing that moves the plan.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Private Flights to Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas 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 of field makes itself: a hotel near Cape Santa Maria points to Stella Maris, a stay near Clarence Town points to the south end.
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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 Long Island Bahamas Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down on Long Island depends on the aircraft and on which end you are staying. Wheels end on the asphalt at Stella Maris or Deadman's Cay, floats end on the calm western shore, and a car covers the one road between. Below is what waits at each end, and what a stay out there can look like.
Plan Your Long Island CharterStella Maris Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane and the jet arrive at Stella Maris at the north end, an asphalt strip of just under 4,000 feet with customs and immigration on the field. Because it is the island's airport of entry, the formalities happen where you step out, usually in minutes, since the crew filed everything before departure. 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. Cape Santa Maria and the north end are a short drive away.
Deadman's Cay for the South End
Domestic OnlyDeadman's Cay is the island's second paved field, an asphalt strip of just under 4,000 feet in the south, close to Clarence Town and Dean's Blue Hole. It takes domestic flights only, so the arrival from Miami clears in at Stella Maris first. A small plane then carries on down the island and saves the drive of about an hour, and the details are on the small plane from Miami to Long Island page. Clarence Town, the island capital, sits on a natural harbour nearby, and its two twin-towered churches give it a skyline far larger than its size. Tell us where you are staying and the field, the filings and the car are planned around it.
The Seaplane on the Western Shore
On the Water
A seaplane finishes on the water rather than at a terminal. The settlements and the calm water lie along the western shore, which is the side a float landing wants, while the Atlantic edge takes the weather. Float aircraft clear at an airport first, so the seaplane stops at Stella Maris for the border and moves to the water afterwards, which is minutes from either airstrip. The details are on the seaplane from Miami to Long Island page. The trade is the water. A seaplane needs a calm enough surface 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.
Dean's Blue Hole West of Clarence Town
663 Feet Deep
Dean's Blue Hole, in a bay west of Clarence Town, is the single thing Long Island is best known for. It drops 663 feet, about 202 metres, straight out of shallows you can stand up in. Freediving records have been set in it. Deadman's Cay is the closer field, and a helicopter from Miami to Long Island saves the drive from the north end altogether. The blue hole and the north end are the better part of two hours apart by road, so the field you land on decides how much of the day goes to driving.
Cape Santa Maria and the North End
Where the Beaches Are
Cape Santa Maria sits at the north end near Stella Maris, with the beaches the island is known for along the calm side. Long Island was the third island Columbus reached in 1492, and a monument to the landing stands at the northern end near the cape. What there is to do is covered on the Long Island 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 short stay the north end is the easy base, because the airport of entry, the cape and the beaches all sit close together.
Bonefishing on the Wading Flats
Minutes From the Room
If the trip is about fish, the wading flats on Long Island lie unusually close to where guests stay, so you can be in the water minutes after leaving the room rather than after an hour in a boat. Rods travel with the bags on any of the four aircraft once we know about them. More on fishing the shallows is on the flats fishing page. On an island this thinly built, a vehicle and a guide for the flats are arranged with the flight, so the first morning is planned before you leave 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. Dive gear, rods, 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 on a crossing of 345 miles the fuel aboard counts against the load as well.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Long Island
Domestic After Stella Maris
Long Island also works as one stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in at Stella Maris, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Exuma, Rum Cay, San Salvador, Cat Island or Crooked Island. That is how one island becomes island hopping or a Bahamas day. The ready-made version of a stay is the Long Island getaway, and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book Charter Flights to Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Long Island: 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 Long Island Bahamas Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same 345 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 further on the banks come up turquoise in long pale lines. 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 long crossing into one leg. On the way down the Exuma cays pass off the wing, and the Tropic of Cancer crosses Long Island itself. That is why charter flights to Long Island Bahamas from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats on the calm western side are just as clear. Nobody on board has to lean over a stranger to see them, because the cabin is yours. An afternoon return shows the same water in a lower light.
Private Flights to Long Island Bahamas from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Long Island
Private flights to Long Island Bahamas 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. An early departure puts you at the blue hole before the heat builds, 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 Long Island Bahamas Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Long Island crossing
Miami to Long Island Bahamas flights cross a border twice, and that is the part that goes wrong unprepared. 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. Stella Maris is the island's airport of entry, so the crossing clears on Long Island itself, a seaplane included. 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 in reverse: the return is filed before you leave, and the aircraft lands where the United States can clear you. None of this is paperwork your party fills in at a counter. The passport list is all we need from you, and if a detail changes on the day, the crew updates the filing.
Charter Flights Miami to Long Island Bahamas: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A long weekend, a day trip or something to celebrate on Long Island
Most people who fly down mark something. Charter flights Miami to Long Island Bahamas are booked for a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary or a long weekend with the people who matter, and the island is quiet enough that the occasion stays the point of the trip. Some parties fly down for the day and are home late, 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 Long Island Bahamas from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Long Island Bahamas?
Stella Maris at the north end is about 345 statute miles from Miami, close to 300 nautical, and Clarence Town in the south is nearer 375. Almost all of it is open water.
The time in the air depends on the aircraft and the field you land on, 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. Most parties spend far longer on the island than in the air.
What is the best way to get to Long Island Bahamas?
It depends on which end of the island you stay at and what you carry. A small plane or a jet lands on asphalt at Stella Maris, where the border desk is, and a small plane can carry on to Deadman's Cay for the south.
A seaplane finishes on the calm western shore. A helicopter saves the long drive. We quote the options side by side so you can compare. The scheduled way runs through Nassau and costs most of a day at either end.
Do I need a passport to fly to Long Island Bahamas?
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 Long Island Bahamas?
Yes, on two paved runways. Stella Maris in the north and Deadman's Cay in the south each have asphalt just under 4,000 feet. Stella Maris is the airport of entry with customs on the field, so the arrival from Miami clears there, while Deadman's Cay takes domestic flights only.
A seaplane clears at Stella Maris and then moves to the water. Which suits your day is the first thing we answer when you send your dates and your party size.
Where does the flight land on Long Island Bahamas?
That depends on where you stay. Stella Maris serves the north end and Cape Santa Maria, Deadman's Cay serves Clarence Town and Dean's Blue Hole. The two fields are about an hour apart by car, so the field follows your address. Every arrival from Miami clears at Stella Maris first.
Can you take a day trip to Long Island Bahamas?
Yes, though at this distance it is a long day. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so the return is set by you and not by a timetable. In a jet it is an ordinary outing, with the blue hole before lunch and Miami in the evening.
If you would rather stay a night, tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for that day. On an island eighty miles long, a night lets you see both ends without rushing.
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 dive gear, rods, golf clubs and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft.
On a crossing of 345 miles the fuel aboard counts against the load as well. If the load decides it, the aircraft is chosen around what you bring, not the other way round.
Is Long Island Bahamas good for families?
It suits families who want a quiet island: calm water on the western shore, beaches such as Cape Santa Maria and shallows you can stand up in. 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 island is long, so a car is part of the plan, and we arrange it with the flight.
Can we fly on to another island from Long Island afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at Stella Maris, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to George Town in the Exumas, Rum Cay, San Salvador or Cat 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. 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 on this long route an early start leaves room to wait an hour or two.
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.
To Long Island that also means going direct instead of changing in Nassau, 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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