Private Jet from Miami to Congo Town

Congo Town lies around a hundred and ninety eight statute miles from Downtown Miami, about a hundred and seventy two nautical. Block time is part of the quote, not a figure we print here. On a jet it is a short leg either way, which is the point: the day on the south coast is the part you actually booked.

Weather decides this crossing. Squalls and cloud pile up over the Gulf Stream as the afternoon goes on, and they are what shifts days on this route. Slower boats and low-flying aircraft have to work around them or wait.

A jet climbs clear of the layer and holds one level the whole way, so the date you picked is far more likely to be the date you fly.

Yes. South Andros Airport, at Congo Town, has a paved runway of more than five thousand feet, which suits a light jet. If your party is large, the aircraft is matched to the field before anything is confirmed, so give us the headcount with your dates.

At Congo Town itself. The airport is on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so there is no separate customs airport to fly first. The crew files the declaration from Florida and the US return before you leave, and your party carries a valid passport and nothing else.

Give us the name of your lodge with your dates and a car will be at the aircraft. Congo Town is a village of about ninety people, and the Queen's Highway runs along the east coast from it to Kemps Bay and the south, so the drive from the field is arranged in advance rather than left to a rank.

Miami has no single business airport, it has several, and the right one is the shortest ground leg from where your morning starts. The executive field north west of the city is the usual departure and is also where a return from the islands clears US customs.

Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are possible too and have their own pages. Send the address your morning starts from and the field is chosen around it rather than the other way round.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you.

The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience. On a coast where the road south is long, that matters more than usual.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group.

The passenger list can also change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.

Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a jet does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.

Yes. It is a short leg, so the party is on the ground with most of the morning left, and you can still move the hour you fly home.

What makes it work here is that the aircraft lands on South Andros itself rather than at a hub two flights away: a morning out leaves the afternoon for the coast, the flats and the water.

For a booking, almost. Congo Town is the village and South Andros is the district around it, and the airfield carries the South Andros name, so a flight to either lands at the same strip.

If your day is in the middle of the island or in the north, the Fresh Creek route or the Andros route is the one you want.

Yes. Fishing and diving parties fly this route often. Weight, not piece count, is what counts on a charter, so rods, tanks and a cooler are a question of payload. Tell us who is fishing or diving when you send the dates: gear shapes the load plan, not the price, and we check it against the aircraft before confirming.

Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and that is the point of the aircraft. A jet operates above the layer that grounds the rest, so an afternoon of Gulf Stream weather is usually a non-event.

When it is not, 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 queue for the next available seat.

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.