Miami Private Jet Charter

It depends on where the day ends. Bimini is around fifty nautical miles off the coast, Naples 90, Key West about 112, Nassau about 160, Marsh Harbour about 175 and Harbour Island 193. Those are distances, and the flight time follows from the aircraft and the wind, so it comes back with the quote together with the boarding time.

For anywhere in the Bahamas, yes. It is an international flight and every passenger needs a valid passport, children and infants included. Full names and passport numbers go in when you book rather than at the ramp, because both border filings are made in advance from our side. To Naples or Key West there is no border at all, so the same day runs on photo identification.

Opa-locka Executive, Miami International, Miami Executive or Fort Lauderdale Executive, and the right one is chosen for your ground time rather than for the aircraft. Opa-locka is the usual departure, Miami International suits a party already at the airport, and a return from the islands clears US customs at a field with a federal inspection station.

On a paved runway, and a light jet needs about 4,000 feet of it. Every field behind the routes on this page is longer than that, from Key West at 5,076 feet to Nassau at 11,107. Many smaller cays have only a short strip or none at all, and for those a small plane, a helicopter or a seaplane flies the last stretch on the same booking.

The jet clears at an airport of entry the first time it enters the Bahamas, and the Bahamian desks are open 09:00 to 17:30 daily. Nassau, Bimini, Harbour Island's North Eleuthera, Marsh Harbour, Exuma and Grand Bahama are all airports of entry, so the desk sits on the field where the aircraft parks. The return is filed with United States Customs before you leave.

Yes, for the near islands. Bimini, Freeport and Nassau sit close enough that a morning departure leaves hours on the ground and a return the same evening, and the filings are made in advance so the border adds no queue. A night or a week on the island is the other shape of the trip, on the same aircraft and the same filings.

As late as the airport at the far end is open and the border desk is working: the Bahamian desks run 09:00 to 17:30, so the crossing is timed against those hours rather than against the clock. The return hour is agreed with the booking, and a party that runs long on the island moves the departure rather than losing the aircraft.

That depends on the class, which is why the party size is asked for first. A light jet is the smallest cabin, midsize and super midsize step up, and a heavy jet takes the largest group. A party bigger than one cabin carries flies as a second jet or a second leg, settled before the date rather than at the ramp.

Usually, but the hold of a light jet is smaller than the hold of a heavy one, so tell us what travels with the party when you enquire. The baggage guidance sets out what a given aircraft carries, and a party with more luggage than a light jet takes is moved up a class instead of leaving things behind.

A jet climbs above the layer that keeps other aircraft on the ground, so an afternoon of cloud over the Gulf Stream is rarely a reason to stay put. When weather does decide the day, the call comes early enough to move the departure rather than lose it, under the weather and delays policy.

A jet lands on a runway, so the last stretch is arranged around it: a car at the steps, a water taxi across the harbour, or a boat waiting at the marina on a yacht transfer. Where an island has no runway at all, a helicopter or a seaplane flies the final leg on the same booking.

Yes. If your morning starts north of Miami, the same routes leave from Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach with the same filings and the same cabins, and both have a page of their own. Say where you are staying and the departure field comes back already chosen.

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.

A charter is priced as a whole aircraft, not per seat, so the number moves with three things: which cabin flies your date, how many of you there are once bags are aboard and how long the aircraft waits for you.

How far the day goes moves it as well, which is why the destination is asked for first. Tell us those and you get one all-in number before anything is due.