The Route
Charter Flights from Miami to South Bimini
South Bimini is the southern half of Bimini, about fifty nautical miles of open water east of Miami. It is also the half with the airport, so every aircraft we fly can end the trip on the island itself. The choice is not whether you can get there, it is which way suits your party, your bags and the day you have planned. A family with bags, a couple going for lunch and friends heading to a boat will not pick the same one, and that is fine.
Charter flights from Miami to South Bimini 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 South Bimini, a small plane to the island runway, 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 South Bimini Charter
Choose Your Aircraft
Flights to South Bimini: 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 South Bimini 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 South Bimini by seaplane with exclusive water landings and direct waterfront access.
Small Plane
Fly privately to South Bimini on aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, Piper Aztec or Piper Navajo.
Helicopter
Fly privately to South Bimini on helicopters such as the Bell 407, Agusta 109 or Sikorsky S-76.
Private Jet
Fly privately to South Bimini on Light Jet, Mid Jet or Super Mid Jet aircraft.
How It Works
How Private Charter Flights from Miami to South Bimini 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 South Bimini CharterDistance and Aircraft
Fifty Nautical Miles and Four Ways to Fly Them
Miami to South Bimini is about fifty nautical miles, almost all of it open water, and it is the shortest crossing to the Bahamas. How long it takes in the air depends on the aircraft: the seaplane is about 25 minutes, 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
A Runway on the Island and Water Beside It
A small plane, a jet and a helicopter land at South Bimini Airport, on the island itself, so a stay on the south side needs no ferry. A seaplane puts down on the water or uses the same runway, depending on wind and sea that morning. A day on North Bimini adds a short taxi and a ferry across the channel.
Both Borders
Passports, the Manifest and Both Borders Filed for You
South Bimini Airport is a Bahamian port of entry, so every aircraft clears on arrival and flies straight in. 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
Same-Day Return or Several Nights on South Bimini
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 South Bimini 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 South Bimini 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 light bags point one way, a load of dive 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 South Bimini Put You Down
Where your flight puts you down depends on the aircraft, and on this route every option ends on South Bimini itself. Wheels end on the runway at the south of the island, floats on the water or the same strip, and from either one the island is small enough to cross by golf cart. Below is what waits at each end, and what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your South Bimini CharterSouth Bimini Airport for Runway Aircraft
Wheels Down
The small plane, the jet and the helicopter all arrive at South Bimini Airport, a paved strip across the south of the island with the border desk in the one terminal building. Because the airport is a port of entry, the formalities happen where you step out, usually in minutes, since the crew filed everything before departure. The desk 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. If your day is on this side of the channel, there is no ferry in the plan: a cart waits at the apron if you booked ground transport, and the aircraft stays parked there for your return.
The Seaplane on South Bimini
On the Water
A seaplane is the one aircraft with a choice of where to stop. It can put down on the water beside the island or roll in on the same runway as everybody else. Which one your date uses is the operator's call that morning, because it depends on wind and sea state, and either way the border desk is a short distance from where you step off. The details are on the seaplane from Miami to South Bimini 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 Channel to North Bimini
Only If You Cross
North Bimini, with Alice Town and most of the hotels, is across a narrow channel with no bridge. From the airport a taxi of five to ten minutes takes you to the dock, and a small ferry crosses in about the same time. It runs through the day and it is informal, but on this route it is optional: if your house, your berth or your table is on the south side, you never take it. If your day is in Alice Town, the flights from Miami to Bimini page is written around that crossing. A golf cart or a car can wait on either side of the channel, so the whole hop from the aircraft to where you are staying is arranged before you land, bags included.
Bimini Sands, Port Royal and the Trail
Where Parties Stay
The resort and the sheltered marina at Bimini Sands sit on the west side of South Bimini, and Port Royal next to it has holiday homes, a beach club, restaurants and a dive base. Both are minutes from the runway by cart. Inland a walking trail runs through the scrub, and the spring the Fountain of Youth story attaches itself to is a short ride from the apron. The rest of the island is covered on the South Bimini 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 day trip, a beach, the trail and lunch fit easily between the morning flight and the evening one. Longer stays pick a house or a berth on this side, which is exactly why a landing on this island appeals to them.
Flying Over the Reef
Seen From Above
The last minutes from Miami are the best part of the flight. The deep blue of the Gulf Stream breaks into turquoise over the Bimini bank, and from a low flying aircraft you see the reef, the sandbars and the flats clearly on a sunny morning. The wreck of the Sapona, a concrete ship aground off the south end of the island in about fifteen feet of water, is one of the sights on the way in, close to the end you land on. 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.
Nurse Sharks, Stingrays and the Shark Lab
Bimini's Signature Swim
Swimming with nurse sharks and stingrays is the experience most guests fly to Bimini for. At Honeymoon Harbour on Gun Cay, just south of the island, tame stingrays glide in over pale sand in water barely to your knees, and nurse sharks come into the same shallows. Nurse sharks are the calm side of Bimini's shark reputation, which is why families do this together. A boat runs out from the marina, and a beach picnic on a sandbar fits into the same afternoon. The shark research station on the southern shore of South Bimini is the other reason the island is known. It is a working field station rather than an attraction with a ticket window, so ask at the enquiry and we say what is realistic for your date.
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 becomes the easy choice.
Onward Through the Bahamas From South Bimini
Domestic After Bimini
South Bimini also works as the first stop of a longer trip. Once you have cleared in here, every leg after it stays inside the Bahamas. The same charter can carry on to Grand Bahama, 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 Bimini 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 South Bimini 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 South Bimini 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 South Bimini: What to Know Before You Fly
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind flights from Miami to South Bimini: 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 South Bimini Charter Flights: Four Ways Over the Gulf Stream
The same fifty miles of water seen from four different aircraft
The crossing is not dead time, 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. On a clear morning the wreck of the Sapona shows up off the south end of the island, standing in about fifteen feet of water. That is why charter flights to South Bimini from Miami double as scenic flights for anybody sitting by a window. The flats and the sandbars on the bank side are just as clear, and so is the dark line where the reef starts. Nobody 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 South Bimini from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a charter flight to South Bimini
Private flights to South Bimini 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 South Bimini Flights: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a South Bimini crossing
Miami to South Bimini flights cross an international border twice in one day, 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. South Bimini Airport is a port of entry, so no aircraft on this page stops anywhere else first. The crew files all of it. Your party carries a valid passport and nothing else, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel is in the baggage guidance. A name added or dropped before the day is a message to us, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. Coming home works the same way in reverse. The return is filed before you leave the island, and the aircraft lands where the United States can clear you, which is part of the plan we send with the quote. None of this is paperwork your party fills in at a counter: we send your passport list on with the filings, so nothing waits at the desk. If a detail changes on the day, the crew updates the filing.
Charter Flights Miami to South Bimini: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on South Bimini
Most people who fly over mark something. Charter flights Miami to South Bimini 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 South Bimini from Miami: Questions Answered
How long is the flight from Miami to South Bimini?
South Bimini is about fifty nautical miles east of Miami, the shortest crossing to the Bahamas. A seaplane covers it in about 25 minutes 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 South Bimini?
It depends on what you carry and where your day is. A small plane or a jet lands on the runway on the island itself and handles more weight and rougher water. A seaplane puts down on the water or on the same strip, and a helicopter saves the drive to an airport.
We quote the options side by side so you can compare. If your day is really in Alice Town, the Bimini route with the short ferry across the channel is the one to look at.
Do I need a passport to fly to South Bimini?
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 South Bimini?
Yes. South Bimini Airport has a paved runway, the only one in the Bimini islands, and a border desk in its terminal, so a small plane, a jet or a helicopter lands and clears in the same place.
A seaplane can also put down on the water, depending on wind and sea that morning. Either way you clear customs where you arrive, with no extra stop on the way. 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 on South Bimini?
Runway aircraft land at South Bimini Airport at the south of the island, with customs and immigration in the terminal beside the apron. From there the resort and marina, the research station, the trail and the southern beaches are a few minutes by golf cart. If your day is on North Bimini, a short taxi and a ferry of a few minutes take you across. Both options clear customs on arrival.
Can you take a day trip to South Bimini?
Yes, and it is the most common way this route is flown. On a charter the aircraft waits for you, so the return is set by you and not by a timetable. Out in the morning, back in the evening, with both borders handled.
If you would rather stay a night, tell us when you enquire and the return is planned for that day. Many guests try a day trip first and come back later for a longer stay.
How much baggage can we take?
It is a question of weight, not of the number of bags, and it differs by aircraft. Floats carry less than wheels, and a jet carries the most. Say what is coming when you enquire, including golf clubs, dive gear, rods and anything with a battery, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the aircraft.
Fishing gear and dive bags 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 South Bimini good for families?
It suits families well for a day out of Miami: the crossing is short, the water on the bank side is shallow and warm and the island is small enough to see in a day by golf cart. 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. Because the runway is on the same island, a family staying on the south side does not need a boat at all.
Can we fly on to another island from South Bimini afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at South Bimini, 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 this short route 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 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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