The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to Royal Island
Royal Island is a private island of 430 acres off the north tip of Eleuthera, about 182 nautical miles of open water east of Miami. Every aircraft we fly reaches it, because the runway on North Eleuthera is nine nautical miles away by boat. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and whether you step off in the harbour or at the airport. A family with bags, a couple going for a quiet beach and friends heading to a yacht will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to Royal Island 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 harbour, a small plane to North Eleuthera, a helicopter that skips the drive 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 Royal Island Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to Royal Island: 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 Royal Island 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 Royal Island by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to Royal Island on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to Royal Island on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to Royal Island on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to Royal Island 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 Royal Island CharterDistance and Aircraft
182 Nautical Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to Royal Island is about 182 nautical miles, almost all of it open water over the Gulf Stream and the bank. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft: the seaplane is a little over 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
The Harbour for Floats, North Eleuthera for Wheels
A seaplane clears on the way in and then finishes on the water inside Royal Island, in the sheltered harbour on the south side. A small plane and a jet land on the runway at North Eleuthera, and a boat covers the last nine miles. The helicopter clears at the same airport as the others.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
Royal Island has no port of entry of its own, so every aircraft clears at one on the way in, North Eleuthera for the runway. 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 golf cart at the harbour, 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 Royal Island
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 Royal Island 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 Royal Island 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 by the harbour 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 Royal Island Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down for Royal Island depends on the aircraft. Floats end on the water inside the island's harbour, wheels end on the runway at North Eleuthera nine miles west. Below is what waits at each end, and what a few days on the island can look like.
Plan Your Royal Island CharterNorth Eleuthera Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane and the jet arrive at North Eleuthera Airport, runway 07/25 with 6,020 feet of asphalt across the top of Eleuthera, and the border desk in the terminal. 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 keeps daytime hours, 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 it is a few minutes by road to the dock, and the aircraft stays parked there for your return. On the way home that means the same boat, the same apron and no check-in at all.
The Harbour for the Seaplane
On the Water
A seaplane is the one aircraft that finishes at the island itself. It clears at a port of entry on the way in, then lands inside the harbour on the south side, where the water stays calm behind high ground. No boat is needed at the end, so it is the shortest way from Miami to the island's sand, and the details are on the seaplane from Miami to Royal Island page. The trade is the water and the light. A seaplane needs a calm enough surface and lands from thirty minutes after sunrise to thirty minutes before sunset, and we tell you that before you book rather than on the day.
The Boat to Royal Island
Nine Miles Across
If you land on the runway, the island is nine nautical miles away across the water. There is no public ferry, so a private boat runs you from North Eleuthera into the harbour. It is booked before you leave Florida, so nobody stands on the dock looking for a boat. In return the runway works on mornings when the water is too rough for floats. We quote both ends so you can weigh them. A golf cart can wait at the harbour, so the whole hop from the aircraft to the hotel is arranged before you land, bags included.
The Beaches and the High Ground
On the Island
Outside the harbour the island carries more than ten miles of ocean frontage, white sand beaches all the way round and high points with a view over the whole of it. The ground is private and a golf cart is all the transport it needs. What there is to do is covered on the Royal 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. The harbour and the anchorage are covered in the next tab but one. The nearest neighbours have their own pages, flights from Miami to Harbour Island among them, and both sit a short boat ride from here.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From Above
The last part of the flight from Miami is the best of it. The deep blue of the Gulf Stream turns pale over the bank at the top of Eleuthera, and from a low flying aircraft the reef along the ocean side shows clearly on a sunny morning. Then the island itself comes up, the harbour a dark pocket cut into pale sand, the sight most guests remember from the approach. It is one of the reasons people ask for scenic flights on the way in. Ask the crew to come in low over the reef if the day allows, and have a camera ready on the side facing the island.
The Harbour and the Anchorage
Royal Island's Signature
The harbour is what Royal Island is known for. It is one of the most sheltered deep-water anchorages in the Bahamas, a classic hurricane hole with a narrow entrance on the south side and high ground around it. Boats have used it through storms for generations, and the ground around it is private, which keeps a day here quiet. A beach picnic on the sand can be set up with the flight. Ask for a cart to be waiting with ground transport and it is at the harbour when you arrive, bags loaded.
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. Golf clubs, dive tanks, rods, 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 in the harbour becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From Royal Island
Domestic After Clearing In
Royal Island also works as one stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in on the way, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Eleuthera, Nassau, Harbour Island, 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 Royal Island 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 Royal Island 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 Royal Island 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 Royal Island: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to Royal Island: 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 Royal Island Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same 182 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. At the end of it the harbour of Royal Island shows as a dark pocket cut into a pale island, white sand below high ground. That is why charter flights to Royal Island from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The shallow bank off the top of Eleuthera is just as clear, and so is the reef along the ocean side. Nobody on board leans over a stranger to see it: the whole cabin is your party's. An afternoon return shows it again in a lower light.
Private Flights to Royal Island from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to Royal Island
Private flights to Royal Island 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 Royal Island Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Royal Island crossing
Miami to Royal Island 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 on arrival and a US return filed before you head home. Royal Island carries no port of entry, so every aircraft clears on the way in, North Eleuthera for the runway, where the desk keeps daytime hours. 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, and weather moves run 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 at a counter. The passport list is all we need, sent with the filings before the day, and the crew updates it if a detail changes.
Charter Flights Miami to Royal Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A long weekend, a week or something to celebrate on Royal Island
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to Royal Island are booked for a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary or a weekend away with the people who matter, and on a private island with nobody else on the beach the occasion stays the point of the trip. 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 Royal Island from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to Royal Island?
Royal Island is about 182 nautical miles east of Miami, off the north tip of Eleuthera. A seaplane covers it in a little over 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. At this distance many parties stay a night or more rather than turning round.
What is the best way to get to Royal Island from Miami?
It depends on where you want to end up and what you carry. A seaplane clears on the way in and then lands on the water inside the island's harbour, with no boat at the end.
A small plane or a jet lands on the runway at North Eleuthera and handles more weight and rougher water, and a boat crosses the last nine miles. A helicopter saves the drive to an airport in Florida. We quote the options side by side so you can compare.
Do I need a passport to fly to Royal Island?
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 Royal Island?
Only on the water. Royal Island has no airstrip and no public ferry. The runway is at North Eleuthera, 6,020 feet of asphalt nine nautical miles west across the water, and it is an airport of entry, so a small plane or a jet lands and clears there.
A seaplane clears on the way in and then lands inside the island's sheltered harbour. 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 for Royal Island?
That depends on the aircraft. Runway aircraft land at North Eleuthera, and from there a boat set up before you leave Florida runs across into the harbour on the south side of the island. A seaplane finishes inside that harbour itself, so the boat is not needed. Both clear customs on the way in, because Royal Island is not a port of entry.
Can you take a day trip to Royal Island?
Yes, though the clock is tighter than on the near islands. 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. Many guests try a day trip first and come back later for a longer stay, which at this distance is the more common plan.
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.
Beach bags and dive gear are common on this route, and on an island that is crossed by boat a soft bag travels easiest. If the load decides it, the aircraft is chosen around what you bring, not the other way round.
Is Royal Island good for families?
It suits families well: the ground is private, a golf cart is the only transport it needs and white sand beaches run around the island, with a sheltered harbour on the south side.
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 boat from North Eleuthera is short, and a seaplane skips it entirely.
Can we fly on to another island from Royal Island afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at North Eleuthera, every leg after it is domestic. The same aircraft can carry on to Eleuthera, 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 this longer route an early decision keeps the return slot open.
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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