The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Cat Cay
Cat Cay is a pair of islands on the western rim of the Great Bahama Bank, about ten miles below Bimini and roughly fifty nautical miles from the city. North Cat Cay is privately owned and run as a members club. The one thing the cays lack is a runway a chartered jet is sent to, so the route is planned around that from the outset.
The wheels come down at South Bimini, a public field with its own border desk. From there a boat covers about ten nautical miles south in twenty to thirty minutes, booked before you leave Florida. Cloud gathers over the Gulf Stream as the day warms. A jet climbs through it, so the boat south is never kept waiting by the weather.
We take care of the stretch between the city and the cays: the departure airport, the aircraft and its crew, the boat and both border filings, with the travel documents sorted beforehand. Your party brings passports and a bag. Cat Cay can also be reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each of them makes a different day.
Plan Your Cat Cay Charter
Miami to Cat Cay Private Jet
How a Private Jet Cat Cay from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Cat Cay jet charter is more than the minutes spent above the Gulf Stream. This is what every flight covers, from your first message to the moment the boat ties up at Cat Cay.
Plan Your Cat Cay CharterDistance and Flight Level
Fifty Nautical Miles of Sea to Cat Cay
The cays lie about fifty nautical miles from the city, open sea the whole way. Around midday the Gulf Stream starts piling cloud along that track, and that is what pushes trips on this crossing back. A jet goes up through it and holds one level, so the weather becomes something beneath the aircraft rather than something on the schedule.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party on Board the Cat Cay Flight
The only names on the manifest are the ones you send. On a day that ends with a boat transfer that matters in small ways: seats, bags, the cooler and the hour of departure are fixed ahead of time rather than worked out beside the aircraft. Someone in the party running late costs a phone call and nothing else.
The Runway and the Last Leg
South Bimini by Jet, Then Ten Nautical Miles South
The strip on North Cat Cay is private and kept for club members and their guests, so the aircraft lands at South Bimini Airport instead, a public field with a paved runway and a border desk of its own. From there a boat runs about ten nautical miles south, twenty to thirty minutes along the chain, and it is held for your landing rather than for a timetable.
Both Borders
Customs Cleared Once on the Way to Cat Cay
South Bimini is a port of entry, so the aircraft clears in where it parks and the boat ride south afterwards stays inside the country. We collect the passport details once, with the enquiry, and the crew files the travel documents for the way out and the way home without a single form passing through your hands.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, a Boat and the Water Around Cat Cay
The cooking on board and the boat at the far end are arranged as one booking. Tell us whether the afternoon is about the stingrays at Honeymoon Harbour on neighbouring Gun Cay, the sandbars on the bank or a fishing run off the drop, and the boat is loaded for that. Going ashore on North Cat Cay is for members and their guests.
How Long the Day Runs
A Day Around Cat Cay or a Night on Bimini
Roughly fifty miles each way leaves the day intact, so most parties fly out, spend the afternoon on the water and sleep in Florida. Where a longer stay is the plan and the club is not, the bed is on Bimini with a short boat run south each morning. The aircraft stays booked for every one of those days.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Cat Cay
Miami has no single business airport, it has four and the right one is the one closest to where your day starts. Select one to see exactly where it sits.
Opa-locka Executive
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, OPF
The executive airport north west of the city and the usual Miami departure for a private jet, with private terminal handling on both ends. It is also where a return from the islands clears US customs.
Miami International
Miami International Airport, MIA
The right one when the party is already at MIA, arriving on a commercial flight or connecting to one and the onward leg should leave from the same airport instead of crossing the city first. Arranged per flight rather than held, so it is confirmed with the operator before it is quoted.
Miami Executive
Miami Executive Airport, TMB, Kendall
Kendall-Tamiami, in the south west of the county and the shortest ground leg for Coral Gables, Pinecrest and the south of Miami-Dade. A general aviation field, so the walk from the car to the aircraft is short.
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Fort Lauderdale Executive, FXE
Fort Lauderdale Executive, thirty miles up the coast and the field a Broward or north Miami departure is quoted from. Its federal inspection station is where a US return from the islands is cleared when the day begins and ends in Broward.
How to Charter
How to Book a Private Jet Charter Miami to Cat Cay
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Cat Cay Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, which airport suits your morning and where you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
Back comes what is actually available on your date: the types that fit the headcount, what each one seats, what each one will carry and what each one costs. You are chartering the aircraft rather than buying seats on it, so a party of four and a party of eight see the same figure.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft and we set the departure field. Then everything else is attached: catering on board, the boat that meets the jet at South Bimini and takes you the ten nautical miles south, a dock pickup for the way back. Flowers too, if it is that kind of date. Payment closes the booking, and back comes the boarding hour, the airport and an itemised list of what the day includes.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
No queue, no gate, no hour of standing about. Arrive thirty minutes before, walk across to the steps, and the first turn out over the water is already part of the trip.
Around the Cays
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Cat Cay Puts You Down
The jet is where a Cat Cay day really starts. A flight high over the Gulf Stream, a boat south past the 1836 lighthouse on Gun Cay, stingrays at Honeymoon Harbour and sandbars drying out on the bank. Below is what a day around the cays can look like.
Plan Your Cat Cay CharterNorth Cat Cay Is a Private Club
Members and Guests
North Cat Cay is privately owned and run as a members club. The marina, the houses and the island's own airstrip belong to members and the guests they invite, and that shapes how a day here is put together. The island's story goes back to 1873, when a deed from Queen Victoria passed it to a sea captain who had kept the Gun Cay light. In the 1930s a nine hole course was laid out for the man who later became the Duke of Windsor, and after Hurricane Betsy in 1965 the island was rebuilt as the club it is today. Members and their guests come ashore at the club marina. Everyone else spends the day on the water around the cays, and the island guide sits on the Cat Cay page.
Honeymoon Harbour on Gun Cay
Shin Deep
A short run north of the cays, the bay at the top of Gun Cay is the stop most parties ask for. It is shallow, pale and sheltered from the east wind, with a white beach along its southern edge and nothing built behind it. Southern stingrays feed over those flats and are used to people. In shin deep water they come right up, which makes it the one stop that works just as well with small children in the party. The water over the flats follows the tide and not our schedule. We check it for your date and set the boarding time to match, which is easier when the jet leaves on your word rather than a timetable's.
The Gun Cay Lighthouse
Standing Since 1836
The stone tower on Gun Cay, just north across the cut, has been lit since 1836 and marks the way onto the bank for anything running in from the Gulf Stream. On the boat ride south from Bimini it is the landmark that tells you the cays are close. It is a sight rather than a stop: no keeper, no visitor centre, no laid path. A second light stands on the breakwater at North Cat Cay, built in 1933 and still working. A beach picnic on the sand below the old tower is set up before you land.
The Drop Off and the Gulf Stream
Fishing Days
The cays sit right on the western rim of the Great Bahama Bank. To the west the bottom falls away into the deep water of the Gulf Stream, to the east the bank runs pale and shallow for miles. That is why the water here has a fishing name. Mahi-mahi, marlin and wahoo run along the drop, with snapper and grouper closer in, and a boat working from the cays reaches either side in minutes. Rods and tackle travel with the party, within what the aircraft carries on the day, and bonefishing and flats access covers the shallow side.
The Sandbars on the Bank
Low Water Only
East of the cays the bank is pale and shallow, and around low water stretches of it dry into sandbars with nobody on them. Boats anchor in the deeper channels in between and wait for the water to drop. There is no shade and nothing for sale out there, so what the afternoon needs travels with you. Add water toys for a party that would rather be in the water, or a dock pickup for the way home. This is the part of the day that rewards being early, and a jet that is not waiting on weather is how you reach the bars before the tide turns. They are yours until the water comes back.
Ashore on North Cat Cay
For Those Who May
For members and their invited guests the island is the day itself: the marina, the houses and the club. If your party is among them, say so when you enquire and the boat from South Bimini heads for the marina rather than the open bank. Bahamian customs and immigration officers are on duty on the island through the day, which matters for boats arriving direct from Florida. A jet party has already cleared at South Bimini, so nothing is left to file when you step ashore.
Bimini to the North
The Public Island
About ten miles north is Bimini, the public island of the chain, with the hotels, marinas and restaurants the cays keep for members. It is also where the wheels come down, so a longer stay often means a room there and a boat south each morning. The nurse sharks in its shallows are the best known sight on Bimini, and the run north is short enough to fold them into a Cat Cay day. The landing field has a page of its own, South Bimini by private jet, and so does the island, Bimini by private jet.
Onward from Cat Cay by Jet
Same Aircraft
A private jet charter from Miami to Cat Cay also works as a first leg rather than the whole trip. From South Bimini the same aircraft carries on to Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros or Staniel Cay and the Exumas. The border was cleared on the way in, so a second island that afternoon is simply another flight. What it costs is daylight, so mention a second stop at the enquiry: an extra leg changes the fuel and what the aircraft can carry, as the baggage guidance explains. That is how one stop turns into island hopping or a longer Bahamas day. For the island itself see the Cat Cay destination page, for a ready made day the Cat Cay getaway, for the whole chain the Bahamas destinations page, and for freight island logistics.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Cat Cay?
Send the date and how many are flying. Back comes what is available, what it costs and when it can leave, and nothing is held until you confirm.
Add-Ons
Private Jet to Cat Cay Add-Ons
Name the ones you want when you send your dates, and they come back priced together with the aircraft.
In Detail
Private Jet from Miami to Cat Cay: The Gulf Stream, South Bimini and the Boat to the Cays
What sits above is the day itself. What follows is the thinking behind it: what an afternoon of Stream weather does to this crossing and why a jet shrugs it off, how late the departure can still shift, who files the border on Bimini, and what a date worth celebrating looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Cat Cay from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Cat Cay
About fifty nautical miles of open sea lie between Miami and these cays, and the way you cross them decides how much of the day is left at the other end. As the morning warms, the Gulf Stream lifts cloud into a line along the track, and by early afternoon it can stand like a wall. Aircraft that stay beneath it crawl along its base or sit on the ramp until it clears. A jet with the performance to climb over the top never meets it, and the queue on the Florida side belongs to somebody else. At Cat Cay that counts for more than the minutes. The boat south and the tide over the flats run on clocks of their own, and a late landing eats into both. So what the aircraft buys on this route is not speed for its own sake. It is an afternoon spent on the bank rather than one spent waiting. The cabin carries your party and nobody else on the jets in the fleet of this size, and every one of our private jet routes from Miami works the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Cat Cay: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Cat Cay
No timetable for this day exists anywhere, so there is nothing to bend your plans around. You choose the hour, and everything else is arranged behind it. The departure, the moment the boat leaves South Bimini and the airport with the shortest drive are all yours to set, and changing any of them a week ahead is one message. If the north is the easier road, the same day can start from Fort Lauderdale instead. Thirty minutes before take off is the whole of check-in. Car to steps, bags where you can see them, and every name on the passenger list one you invited. A guest who joins late is added with a message, not a new booking. The boat to Cat Cay is booked to your aircraft and not to a printed schedule, so a flight that leaves an hour late strands nobody on the Bimini dock. The one hour we do not set is the tide on the flats at Honeymoon Harbour, a short run north of the cays: we check it for your date before the boarding time is fixed, which is the whole reason a departure you control is worth having.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Cat Cay: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Cat Cay crossing
A day at Cat Cay crosses an international border going out and crosses it again coming home. Left to the traveller, that paperwork is where a short trip starts to stretch. There are three filings in all: one leaving Florida, one arriving at a staffed port, one on the way back. You never see any of them. The useful detail is that South Bimini, where the jet parks, is a port of entry in its own right, so clearance and arrival happen in one stop and the boat ride south is a domestic journey. North Cat Cay keeps officers of its own, but the aircraft does not land there, which is why the route runs through Bimini. Every traveller carries a passport, babies and children included, and the travel documents guidance sets out what else each name needs; what goes in the hold is covered under baggage guidance. The US airport you come home through is named in the quote, and a date the weather shifts is handled under the weather and delays policy. When the guest list changes, that stays our job as well: we file the updated one.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Cat Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip or a weekend worth marking on Cat Cay
A private jet from Miami to Cat Cay gets booked when the day deserves it: a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary, a weekend with the people who count. Two cays on the rim of the bank, a stone lighthouse on the next island north and stingrays in shin deep water make a rare kind of quiet to reach within a morning. Many parties fly over for the day and are back in Florida for dinner. Others take a room on Bimini and run south again the next morning, or break the journey home further down the chain. Neither needs a second booking, and however big the group is, it travels on one. If there is something to celebrate, mention it when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers come along with you and are set up before you land. A date that has to go right cannot afford to slip, and that is the other half of what this aircraft buys. The fishing off the drop, mahi-mahi and wahoo among it, is there for anyone who wants a line in the water. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Cat Cay is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Cat Cay: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Cat Cay?
About fifty nautical miles of water lie between the city and the cays, and a jet covers that in very little time. The exact block time belongs in your quote rather than on this page, since it shifts with the aircraft type and the airport you leave from. Add the boat from South Bimini, twenty to thirty minutes, and most of the day is still ahead of you.
Can a private jet land on Cat Cay?
Not as a charter. The strip on North Cat Cay is private, kept for members of the club and their guests, and it is not a field a chartered jet is sent to. The aircraft lands at South Bimini instead, and a boat brings you the rest of the way south. It is all one booking, arranged before you leave Florida.
How do we get from South Bimini to Cat Cay?
By boat, about ten nautical miles south along the chain, which takes twenty to thirty minutes. The boat is booked to your aircraft rather than to a timetable, so the skipper knows which landing he is meeting and a late departure costs you nothing. On the way down it passes Gun Cay and its old lighthouse.
Why charter a jet to an island it does not land on?
Because the fifty miles before the boat are where trips go wrong. From midday the Gulf Stream builds cloud and squalls along this track, and that is what moves days on this crossing. A jet climbs above the layer and carries on. With a boat and a tide waiting at the far end, arriving on time is worth more here than on most routes.
What is there to do around Cat Cay?
Honeymoon Harbour on Gun Cay, just north, is a shallow bay where southern stingrays come to people in shin deep water. The sandbars on the bank east of the cays dry at low water, the lighthouse on Gun Cay has stood since 1836, and the drop off to the west is fishing water for mahi-mahi, wahoo, snapper and grouper. Tell us which one the day is for and the boat is set up for it.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
There is no single business airport in Miami, there are several, and we choose the one with the shortest drive from where your party starts. Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach work as well and have pages of their own. A return from the Bahamas clears US customs at whichever field the quote names. Tell us where you are staying and the airport is picked around that.
Can we choose our own departure time to Cat Cay?
Within daylight and crew duty limits the hour is yours. The one thing on this route nobody sets is the tide over the flats at Honeymoon Harbour, so we check it for your date and place the boarding time around it. The rest follows you: the aircraft is held for your party, and the boat at South Bimini is tied to your landing, not to a schedule.
Is anyone else on the Cat Cay flight?
No one. The passenger list is the one you send, and it stops there. No seats are sold, nobody sits beside you who was not invited, and the jet does not leave while half the party is still parking the car. Names can be added or taken off late too: that is a new filing for us and a message for you.
Do I need a passport for Cat Cay?
Yes, every traveller, children included, because you are entering another country whatever you fly in on. We take the details once, with your enquiry, and file them for both directions before the flight. Clearance happens when you land at South Bimini, so the boat ride down to Cat Cay afterwards is a domestic trip. The travel documents page lists what each name has to provide.
Can we do Cat Cay as a day trip?
Most parties do. The flight is short and the boat takes twenty to thirty minutes, and since the return hour stays open while you are still on the water, you are not counting back from a last departure. Parties who want longer stay on Bimini and come south again the next morning.
What if the weather turns on our Cat Cay day?
Of everything that flies this crossing, a jet minds the weather least, which is a large part of the case for it. It works above the layer that keeps the others on the ground, and the paved runway at South Bimini stays usable in wind that closes a short strip. If a date still has to move, you hear the moment we know, and because the aircraft was held for you alone it becomes a conversation rather than a search for seats. On a rough afternoon it is the boat run that gets adjusted, not the flight.
Can we go ashore on North Cat Cay?
North Cat Cay is privately owned and run as a members club, so going ashore there is for members and their invited guests. If that is your party, say so when you enquire and the boat is routed to the island. If not, the day is spent on the water around the cays, at Honeymoon Harbour, on the sandbars or along the drop, with catering and shade carried on the boat.
How many people fit on the Cat Cay flight?
That depends on the aircraft and on what the party brings, so the real answer comes with the quote. Send the number of guests and roughly how much luggage, and you see what is available on your date, what each type carries and what it costs. You pay for the aircraft rather than the seat, so the price per head drops as the group grows.
How do we start?
Send the date, the size of the party, the airport nearest to where the morning begins and the hour you would like to leave. Say as well whether the day is about the stingrays, the sandbars or the fishing, because the boat is set up differently for each. You get availability, a price, a boarding time and an itemised list back. Nothing is held until you say yes.
Can I bring a pet on a private jet charter?
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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