The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Mayaguana
Mayaguana is the far south east of the Bahamas, about 446 nautical miles of open water from Miami. That makes it the long end of the map, and every aircraft we fly still reaches it. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and how many nights you plan to stay. Anglers with rods, divers with gear and a couple going for the empty beaches will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Mayaguana 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 bay, a small plane to the long runway, a helicopter that needs no runway 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 Mayaguana Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Mayaguana: 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 Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Mayaguana on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Mayaguana on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Mayaguana on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana CharterDistance and Aircraft
About 446 Nautical Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to Mayaguana is about 446 nautical miles, roughly 513 statute miles, almost all of it open water, out to the far end of the Bahamas. How long it takes depends on the aircraft and its range, so for the seaplane and the others the time comes back with the quote. Either way the flight is planned around range.
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
Harbour Water for Floats, a Runway for Wheels
A seaplane settles on the water off Abraham's Bay, the largest of three settlements. A small plane and a jet land on the runway of 7,297 feet a few minutes away. The helicopter lands there as well, so it is handled with the others.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
Customs is settled before the day for each aircraft, on arrival or at an airport of entry on the way down. Passengers carry a passport, children included, and everything else sits on our side. What counts as valid is in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Transfers and Occasions Set Up With the Flight
Whatever the day is for is organised before you leave: catering on board, a car or a golf cart at the other end, flowers for a birthday. A proposal or an anniversary is planned into the flight as a custom experience rather than around it.
How Long the Day Runs
A Long Weekend or Several Nights on Mayaguana
Almost nobody flies this far for a single day, so most parties stay a few nights, and the aircraft waits or comes back for you. 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 Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana 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 stay at Abraham's Bay 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 Mayaguana Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down on Mayaguana depends on the aircraft, and every one of them ends by the same small bay on the south coast. Wheels end on the long runway, floats on the water of the bay, and the three settlements are minutes apart. Below is what waits there, and what a stay can look like.
Plan Your Mayaguana CharterMayaguana Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane, the jet and the helicopter all arrive at Mayaguana Airport, a paved runway of 7,297 feet a few minutes from the bay, far longer than an island of two hundred people would build for itself. Where each aircraft clears into the Bahamas, here or at an airport of entry on the way down, is settled before the day, and the crew files everything before departure. A morning departure is the easier one on a route this long. Tell us at the enquiry if anyone travels on a passport other than a United States one. From the apron a golf cart or a car is waiting if you booked ground transport, and the aircraft stays parked there or comes back for your return. Either way it is the same short walk to it and no check-in at all.
The Bay on the South Coast for the Seaplane
On the Water
A seaplane skips the runway altogether. It lands on the water of the bay, closed in by reef, and taxis in towards Abraham's Bay, the largest of the three settlements on the island. Abraham's Bay sits on the Bahamian customs list of ports of entry, which is why the seaplane treats the bay as its arrival point. It is the way to end a long crossing right beside a settlement, and the details are on the seaplane from Miami to Mayaguana 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 Tracking Station and the Long Runway
A 1950s Leftover
The runway exists because of what was built beside it. In the 1950s the United States put a missile tracking station on the island as part of the range running east from Cape Canaveral, used in the early years of manned spaceflight. The station was deactivated in 1961. What is left is abandoned buildings, the long runway and a small monument to a rocket nose cone recovered here in 1959, a short drive from Abraham's Bay. It is the one thing on the island that is not about the water, and the reason a jet can land this far out at all, bags included.
Where the Two Hundred People Live
Three Settlements
Abraham's Bay on the south coast is the largest of the three and holds the government offices and the clinic. Betsy Bay and Pirate's Well sit on the northwest side, and the long pale beaches there are genuinely empty. The 2022 census counted 208 residents, so golf carts and scooters are the transport. What there is to do once you are there is covered on the Mayaguana destination page. If you want a table waiting when you land, add a fly and dine day, and anything unusual goes to custom requests. Longer stays pick accommodation by the bay or on the northwest side, and the settlements are minutes apart rather than hours, so either works with every aircraft on this page.
The Bonefish Flats and the Creeks
Most Asked For
Fishing is the first thing almost everyone asks about here. The flats and creeks behind Abraham's Bay run for miles and see very little pressure, because there is almost nobody on the island to fish them. Parties book bonefishing and flats access, and rods and gear travel within the payload of the aircraft on the day. Guides are few and booked in advance rather than found on arrival.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From Above
The last minutes from Miami are the best part of the flight. The deep blue breaks into turquoise over the reef that runs along the coast, and from a low flying aircraft you see it, the flats and the bay clearly on a sunny morning. The offshore diving sits in the 45 to 60 foot range, with walls and drop-offs beyond it, and nobody else is on it. It is one of the reasons people ask for scenic flights on the approach. Ask the crew to come in low over the reef if the day allows, and have a camera ready on the side facing south.
Booby Cay and the Iguanas
Off the East End
Booby Cay lies off the eastern end of the island and is named for the brown boobies that nest on it. It also carries rock iguanas found on Mayaguana and nowhere else, along with the descendants of goats left there generations ago. The island's own name is thought to come from the Arawak word for that iguana. It is a short run east from Abraham's Bay by boat, and a beach picnic on the way fits into the same afternoon. Nobody lives on the cay, so it is a morning on the water rather than a visit, and the boat is arranged with the flight before you land.
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, coolers, a bag for the beach: 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 at the bay becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Mayaguana
Domestic After Mayaguana
Mayaguana also works as one end of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Staniel Cay and the Exumas, Nassau, Andros, Harbour Island or Grand Bahama. That is how one island becomes island hopping or a Bahamas day. The ready-made version of a short stay is the Mayaguana getaway, and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book Charter Flights to Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Mayaguana: 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, most of them over a shorter crossing.
Miami to Mayaguana Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same 446 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 reef 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 holds one altitude the whole way down. On a clear morning Booby Cay shows up off the east end, home to the rock iguanas. That is why charter flights to Mayaguana from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats behind the bay are just as clear, and so is the dark line where the reef starts, and the whole cabin is your party's. An afternoon return shows the same water in a lower light, so the way home is a second view.
Private Flights to Mayaguana from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Mayaguana
Private flights to Mayaguana 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 fishing 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 long weekend and a fishing week 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 trip. A morning departure lands you with daylight to spare after a long crossing, and the return is set for the day you name. Every hour in between belongs to your party and to nobody else.
Miami to Mayaguana Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Mayaguana crossing
Miami to Mayaguana flights cross an international border twice, 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 and a US return filed before you head home. Where each aircraft clears in is settled before the day, and the crew files all of it. Your party carries a valid passport and nothing else, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel is in the baggage guidance. A name added or dropped before the day is a message to us, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. Coming home works the same way in reverse. The return is filed before you leave the island, and the aircraft lands where the United States can clear you, which is part of the plan we send with the quote. None of this is paperwork your party fills in at a counter. The passport list is all we need from you, and we send it on with the filings before the day, so nothing waits for you at the desk. If a detail changes on the day, the crew updates the filing.
Charter Flights Miami to Mayaguana: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A long weekend, a fishing week or something to celebrate on Mayaguana
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Mayaguana are booked for a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary or a fishing week with the people who matter, and the flight is planned so that the occasion stays the point of the trip. Some parties come for a short getaway of a few nights, others stay a week on the water 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 Mayaguana from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Mayaguana?
Mayaguana is about 446 nautical miles from Miami, roughly 513 statute miles, at the far south east of the Bahamas. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft, its range and the field you leave from, so the time comes back with the quote for every option.
What really sets the length of the trip is the border on both sides and how long you stay. Most parties stay a few nights, because the crossing is too long for a single day.
What is the best way to get to Mayaguana?
It depends on what you carry and how you want to arrive. A seaplane lands on the water of the bay by Abraham's Bay, the largest settlement. A small plane or a jet lands on the long runway a few minutes away and handles more weight and rougher water.
A helicopter needs no runway at all. We quote the options side by side. The scheduled way in runs through Nassau, about 290 nautical miles back to the northwest.
Do I need a passport to fly to Mayaguana?
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 Mayaguana?
Yes, in two ways. Mayaguana Airport, MYG and MYMM, has a paved runway of 7,297 feet, built in the 1950s and far longer than the island needs, so a small plane, a jet or a helicopter lands there.
A seaplane lands on the water of the bay by Abraham's Bay instead, which is on the Bahamian customs list of ports of entry. Where each aircraft clears in, on arrival or on the way down, is settled before the day, and we answer it when you send your dates and your party size.
Where does the flight land in Mayaguana?
That depends on the aircraft, but every one of them ends by Abraham's Bay. Runway aircraft land at the airport a few minutes away, and a seaplane lands on the water of the bay. Betsy Bay and Pirate's Well sit on the northwest side, minutes away, so a golf cart or a car waiting at the apron turns the landing into a day on the island.
Can you take a day trip to Mayaguana?
It can be done, but it is not how this route is usually flown. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so a same-day return is possible, but at 446 nautical miles almost nobody flies it as a day trip and most parties stay a few nights.
Tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for the day you want. Many guests come for a long weekend and stay longer the next time.
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 rods, dive gear, coolers and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft.
Fishing 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 Mayaguana good for fishing?
Fishing is the first thing almost everyone asks about here. The flats and creeks behind Abraham's Bay run for miles and see very little pressure, because the whole island holds about two hundred people.
Guides are few and booked in advance, so say how many are fishing when you enquire. Rods travel within the payload of the aircraft on the day, and on a charter there is no terminal queue, which also makes the difference with children.
Can we fly on to another island from Mayaguana afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to the Exumas, Nassau or Andros, 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 and daylight 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.
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 this route that usually means no change 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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