Private Jet from Miami to Arthur's Town

Arthur's Town sits two hundred and fifty five nautical miles from Miami, at the north end of Cat Island. On a jet that is one aircraft rather than a connection through Nassau, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.

There is also an entry stop on the way in, and that is built into the routing you get back.

Because the alternative is a connection and the waiting that comes with it. A charter is one aircraft from Miami to the runway at the north end of the island, with the entry stop built in.

The other half is the weather: over two hundred and fifty miles of open water there is a lot of sky to have to fly around, and a jet climbs above the layer instead.

Yes. The runway at Arthur's Town is paved, which is why a jet comes here directly instead of dropping you thirty miles down the road. You land at the north end of Cat Island rather than at the other end of it, and the walk from the aircraft to the Queen's Highway is short.

Not at the airport itself, and this is the one thing worth knowing before you plan the day. A Bahamas flight has to make its first landing in the country at a port of entry.

For Arthur's Town that is New Bight, down the same island, or Nassau, and which one your flight uses depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. It comes back with the quote, and the crew does the talking there. It is part of the way in rather than an interruption.

There is no one business airport in Miami, there are several, and the right one is whichever puts the least driving between your morning and the aircraft. An hour lost in traffic is an hour off the beach at the other end, and on an island this quiet the hours on the sand are the point of the trip.

The same field question decides the return: a flight home from the Bahamas clears US customs where there is a federal inspection station. The same goes for Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and both carry their own pages.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. A charter has no timetable to work around in the first place.

You fix the hour when you confirm, and moving it later is a message rather than a rebooking: the aircraft has nowhere else to be that day and nobody else aboard to inconvenience. The hour home works the same way, which is what lets a weekend end after the last evening on the beach.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. Nothing is assigned, nobody shares the cabin, and the aircraft does not go while half your group is still in the car park. The list can change close to the day as well: adding or dropping a name is paperwork on our side and not a rebooking on yours.

Yes, for every passenger including children. A jet does not make the Bahamas any less of a different country. The passport details are taken once at the enquiry and filed for both sides before you go, and the travel documents page sets out what each passenger hands over and when.

About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to walk through at the Miami end. You park, you walk out to the aircraft, and the outbound filing went in from our side well before you got there, so there is nothing to print and nothing to hand over.

Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and over two hundred and fifty miles of open water that is the point of the aircraft. A jet works above the layer that keeps the rest of the fleet on the ground.

When the weather is bad enough to matter anyway, the day moves: we would rather rebook a flight than fly it badly, you are told as early as we know, and because the aircraft was held for your party it is a conversation rather than a wait for the next flight in.

Yes, inside the payload the aircraft has that day, and the place to say it is the enquiry rather than the ramp. Coolers, boards, fishing rods and golf bags are all ordinary cargo on a charter, so list what is coming along with the headcount and it goes into the figures you get back.

Send the date, the headcount, the airport that suits your morning and the hour you would like to go. Back comes what is available, the price, the boarding time, the routing with the entry stop in it and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word.

If the days have anything else in them, a guide, a car waiting or a table somewhere, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.

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.