The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Mangrove Cay
Mangrove Cay is the middle district of Andros, between the Middle and the South Bight, about 163 nautical miles of open water from Miami. No road or bridge reaches it, so the aircraft decides how the day starts. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and the hour you want to arrive. A family with bags, a couple on a long weekend and friends heading out to the flats will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Mangrove 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 into the bight, a small plane to the island strip, a helicopter over the bights 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 Mangrove Cay CharterChoose Your Aircraft
Flights to Mangrove 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 Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Mangrove Cay on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Mangrove Cay on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Mangrove Cay on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay CharterDistance and Aircraft
163 Nautical Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to Mangrove Cay is about 163 nautical miles, roughly 188 statute, and almost all of it is open water. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft: the seaplane is about an hour, 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
Water in the Bight for Floats, a Runway for Wheels
A seaplane settles on the water inside the bights of Mangrove Cay, close to where you are staying. A small plane and a jet land on the 5,000 foot runway at Clarence A. Bain Airport in the middle of the island. Where the helicopter sets down is agreed with the operator before the day.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
Mangrove Cay is not a port of entry, so every aircraft clears first at one on Andros, San Andros, Fresh Creek or Congo Town, and flies the last short leg afterwards. 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 at the strip on Mangrove Cay, 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 Mangrove Cay
At about an hour out with a clearance stop on the way, a day trip works with an early start, and the aircraft waits while you are on the island. Most guests stay a few nights for the flats, which 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 Mangrove 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 Mangrove 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 in the bight and a lodge by the flats point one way, a load of rods and 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 car 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 in writing.
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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 Mangrove Cay Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down on Mangrove Cay depends on the aircraft. Floats end on the water inside the bights, wheels end on the runway at Clarence A. Bain Airport, and both clear customs on Andros on the way in. Below is what waits at each end, and what a few days out there can look like.
Plan Your Mangrove Cay CharterClarence A. Bain Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels DownThe small plane and the jet arrive at Clarence A. Bain Airport, a single 5,000 foot runway that crosses the island from east to west, with one small terminal a few steps from the road. The strip is not a border post, so nothing official happens here: that was done on the way in, the jet clearing at San Andros. 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. On the way home that means the same apron and no check-in at all.
The Bights for the Seaplane
On the WaterA seaplane skips the airstrip altogether. It clears first at a port of entry on Andros, flies the last minutes across the water and lands inside the bights, close to where you are staying. On an island cut off by tidal channels, the transfer at the far end is the part that costs time, and the water landing saves it. The details are on the seaplane from Miami to Mangrove 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.
The Customs Stop on Andros
On the Way InMangrove Cay is not on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so every aircraft comes down at one first. Andros carries three, San Andros, Fresh Creek at Andros Town and Congo Town, and which one your flight uses follows the aircraft and the routing. It costs minutes. The crew files the manifest before you leave Florida, the desk keeps daytime hours and the paperwork is walked for you. Guests hand over a passport and get it back, and the aircraft is airborne again for the last short leg.
It is the one thing that makes an early start worth more than a late one on this route, so a morning departure is the easier plan. What we need and by when is on the travel documents page.
Moxey Town and Lisbon Creek
One RoadA single road runs the length of the island from Moxey Town in the north east corner, past the airstrip, down to Lisbon Creek at the southern tip. Moxey Town is the main settlement, and locals call it Little Harbour. Fewer than a thousand people live in the district, and mains electricity and a paved road only arrived in 1989. What there is to do once you are there is covered on the Mangrove Cay destination page. If you want a table waiting when you land, add a fly and dine day, and anything unusual goes to custom requests.
From the south, a free government ferry crosses the South Bight from Driggs Hill to Lisbon Creek twice a day, which is how the rest of Andros reaches the island. From Miami, the aircraft is the short way.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From AboveThe last part of the flight is the best part. The Great Bahama Bank gives way to the deep blue of the Tongue of the Ocean, and on a sunny morning the Andros Barrier Reef shows as a pale line down the east coast. The reef runs about 190 miles, the third largest barrier reef in the world, and Andros has more than 180 blue holes inland and along the shore, which read from the air as dark circles in pale water. It is one of the reasons people ask for scenic flights on the approach. Ask the crew to come in low over the bights if the day allows, and have a camera ready for the channels and the mangrove below.
The Bonefish Flats in the Bights
Why Most People ComeAndros is called the bonefish capital of the world, and the flats in the bights either side of Mangrove Cay are among the largest anywhere. They are the reason most guests fly to this island. A fishing day runs on the tide rather than on the clock, which is the kind of schedule a charter suits. The packaged version of the same idea is a flats fishing day. Rods, wading boots and a cooler are weight rather than luggage, so say what is coming at the enquiry, and the aircraft is chosen around it.
Bags, Gear and Payload by Aircraft
What Each One CarriesWhat 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. Fishing rods, dive tanks, a cooler for the flats: 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 in the bights becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Mangrove Cay
Domestic After AndrosMangrove Cay also works as one stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in on Andros, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Nassau, Grand Bahama, Harbour Island, the rest of 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 Mangrove 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 Mangrove 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 Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same 163 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 before the Tongue of the Ocean. How you see it depends on the aircraft. A seaplane and a helicopter stay low enough to read the water, and the helicopter has glass on every side. A small plane gives everybody a window. A private jet climbs over the weather and turns the crossing into a short hop. On a clear morning the Andros Barrier Reef, the world's third largest, shows as a pale line. That is why charter flights to Mangrove Cay from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats in the bights and the blue holes are just as clear. Nobody on board has to lean over a stranger, because the cabin is yours. 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 Mangrove Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Mangrove Cay
Private flights to Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Mangrove Cay crossing
Miami to Mangrove 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. Mangrove Cay is not one, so each aircraft clears first at San Andros, Fresh Creek or Congo Town. 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 at a counter: the passport list is all we need, and it goes out with the filings. If a detail changes on the day, the crew updates the filing.
Charter Flights Miami to Mangrove Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Mangrove Cay
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Mangrove 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 Mangrove Cay from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Mangrove Cay?
Mangrove Cay is about 163 nautical miles from Miami, roughly 188 statute, almost all of it open water. A seaplane covers it in about an hour 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 Mangrove Cay?
It depends on where you want to end up and what you carry. A seaplane puts you on the water inside the bights, close to where you stay. A small plane or a jet lands on the runway at Clarence A. Bain Airport and handles more weight and rougher water. A helicopter saves the drive to an airport in Miami. We quote the options side by side so you can compare. Without your own aircraft it is a connection through Nassau, or a boat and the ferry across the South Bight.
Do I need a passport to fly to Mangrove 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 in Mangrove Cay?
Yes, in two ways. Clarence A. Bain Airport, MYAB, has a single paved runway of 5,000 feet, so a small plane or a jet lands right on the island. A seaplane lands on the water inside the bights instead. The strip has no border desk, so every aircraft clears first at a port of entry on Andros, San Andros, Fresh Creek or Congo Town, and flies the last short leg afterwards. Which of the two suits your day is the first thing we answer when you send your dates and your party size.
Where does the flight land in Mangrove Cay?
That depends on the aircraft. Runway aircraft land at Clarence A. Bain Airport in the middle of the island, on the one road that runs from Moxey Town in the north east to Lisbon Creek in the south. A seaplane lands on the water inside the bights, close to where you stay. Both options clear customs on Andros on the way in.
Can you take a day trip to Mangrove Cay?
Yes, although most parties come for longer, because an hour each way and a clearance stop use more of the morning than a short hop does. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so the return is set by you and not by a timetable. Out early, back in the evening, with both borders handled. If you would rather stay a few nights for the flats, 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. 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, wading boots and dive gear are common on this route, so they are rarely a problem once we know about them. If the load decides it, the aircraft is chosen around what you bring, not the other way round.
Is Mangrove Cay good for families?
It suits families who want somewhere quiet: fewer than a thousand people live in the district, there is one road and the water in the bights is shallow and warm. 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 flight is about an hour, so a few nights suit a family better than a single day.
Can we fly on to another island from Mangrove Cay afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas on Andros, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to Grand Bahama, Nassau 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 on a seaplane morning the runway at Clarence A. Bain is often the answer.
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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