Private Jet from Miami to Compass Cay

Compass Cay lies roughly two hundred and fifty miles from Miami, in the middle of the Exuma chain. The jet flies to Norman's Cay and customs is cleared there, a small plane or a seaplane covers about thirty three nautical miles to Staniel Cay, and a marina boat takes about twenty minutes for the last stretch. The exact block time for all of it comes back with the quote rather than as a number here.

Because there is no runway on Compass Cay. Norman's Cay, at the top of the chain, has a paved runway long enough for a jet and customs on the same field.

From there a connecting flight goes on to Staniel Cay, and a boat runs the seven and a half miles north to the Compass Cay marina. All three legs are booked together, so nothing is left to arrange once you land.

Because the connection is where the day disappears. Nothing scheduled reaches Compass Cay, so the usual route is an airline to Nassau and then a boat or another aircraft, each on its own timetable.

A charter flies high over the Stream to Norman's Cay, clears customs there and hands you to a hop and a boat that are timed to the jet, with no one else's schedule in between.

At Norman's Cay. A Bahamas flight has to make its first landing in the country at an airport of entry, and the jet lands on a field where customs and immigration sit.

Passports are checked there, the connecting flight and the boat follow, and the crew does the talking. It is part of the routing that comes back with the quote, not something to sort out on the day.

Miami has several business airports rather than one, and the right one is whichever puts the least driving between your morning and the aircraft. An hour in traffic is an hour less on the dock.

The same choice decides the return, because a flight home from the Exumas clears US customs where there is a federal inspection station. Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach work the same way and both have their own pages.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Nothing scheduled flies to Compass Cay, so there is no timetable to work around. You fix the hour when you confirm, and the connecting flight and the boat are set to it.

Moving it later is a message rather than a rebooking, and the hour home works the same way, which matters on a dock where the tide sets the low water platform.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else, on the jet, on the connecting flight and on the boat. Nothing is assigned, nobody shares the cabin, and nothing leaves while half the 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. Compass Cay is in the Bahamas, and the passports are checked at Norman's Cay on the way in. The 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. The same passports are shown again when the flight home clears US customs.

About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to walk through at the Miami end. You park, walk out to the aircraft and go, because the outbound filing was sent from our side well before you arrived. There is nothing to print and nothing to hand over at the steps.

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 seat.

Yes, it is what most parties come for. The nurse sharks gather at the Compass Cay marina dock, and steps lead down to a platform at low tide, so the party can see them from dry land and only the swimmers get in.

The marina sets the rules for the water. Say at the enquiry how many will swim, because the tide sets the best hour and the boat is timed to it.

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 stop at Norman's Cay, the hop and the boat in it, and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word.

If the day has anything else in it, a run to the pigs, a picnic on Crescent Beach or a yacht in the marina, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft. The reply comes back the way you wrote, on WhatsApp or by email.

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.