The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Farmer's Cay
Little Farmer's Cay lies a third of the way down the Exuma chain, about two hundred and seventy miles southeast of Miami. It is a settlement of around sixty people on an island under two miles long, with a harbour, two small clubs and a deep cut to Exuma Sound beside it. No airline serves it, and the strip on the cay is too short for a jet.
The jet still flies the long part. It goes high over the Gulf Stream in one leg and lands on the paved runway at Norman's Cay, at the top of the chain, where customs sits on the same field. A small plane then flies the last forty seven nautical miles south and puts down on the island's own strip.
Everything between is ours: the departure airport, the jet and crew, the small plane and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings passports and a bag. The cay is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each one is its own kind of day to the same village.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay Charter
Miami to Farmer's Cay Private Jet
How a Private Jet Farmer's Cay from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Farmer's Cay jet charter involves more than the time high over the Gulf Stream. Here is what every trip includes, from your first message to the moment you walk off the strip at Farmer's Cay.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay CharterDistance and Flight Level
Two Hundred Miles of Open Water, Flown High
Most of the way to the Exumas is deep ocean and then the shallow bank, and both build cloud as the day warms. A jet climbs through that layer and stays at one level instead of weaving around it, so the date you settle for Farmer's Cay is the date the day happens.
Where the Jet Lands
Jet to Norman's Cay, Small Plane to Farmer's Cay
The strip on Farmer's Cay is too short for a jet, so the jet lands on the paved runway at Norman's Cay. From there a small plane flies forty seven nautical miles down the chain to the island's own strip, and it is booked with the jet rather than looked for after you land.
Both Borders
Customs at Norman's Cay Before the Small Plane
A Bahamas flight must make its first landing at an airport of entry, and Farmer's Cay is not one. At Norman's Cay the desk sits on the same field the jet lands on, so passports are seen before the small plane leaves. We take the passport details once and the travel documents go in from our side.
The Whole Aircraft
One Jet and One Party, Nobody Else Aboard
The cabin carries your party and nobody else, and so does the small plane. With no scheduled service to the cay, a charter is not the faster version of a seat, it is the way a group lands in the village together with its bags. Seating, catering and the hour are agreed before the day.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations and What Travels to Farmer's Cay
Chef catering, a cake for a birthday, rods for the cut: what comes along is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. Ashore it works the same way, where a boat across to the sandbar or a table at one of the two clubs is set ahead on a cay where beds and boats are counted in single figures.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip or a Long Weekend at Farmer's Cay
Some parties come for the turtles and the sandbar and fly home before dark. Others stay over and fish the cut at first light. The aircraft works to the plan, and Black Point lies nine miles north if lunch is better there.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Farmer's 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 Farmer's Cay
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Farmer's 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 go. Tell us the hour you would like to leave, and whether the day is the turtles, the sandbar or a morning on the cut with a rod, because the tide sets the timing for each of them.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send what fits your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each option. You price the aircraft rather than the seats, so four people cost what eight do. The landing at Norman's Cay and the small plane on to Farmer's Cay are both written into the routing we send back.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the departure airport. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a boat across to the sandbar, a table at one of the clubs, ground transport to the airport at home. Flowers if the day is a special one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure airport and everything included come back to you before the day.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
There is no terminal queue to join. Just be there 30 minutes before. Then you lift off, climb out over the bay, and the day starts.
On the Island
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Farmer's Cay Puts You Down
The jet is where a Farmer's Cay day really begins. A flight high over the Gulf Stream, a small plane down the chain from Norman's Cay, and then a village of sixty, green turtles in the harbour and a mile of sand across the cut. Below is what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay CharterThe Farmer's Cay Settlement and Its Land
What Makes It
About sixty people live on Little Farmer's Cay, an island under two miles long. A freed slave and her children bought the whole cay, and the families who descend from them still build on that land and do not sell it on. That is why there is no resort strip, no gate and no guard hut. There are houses on the rise, a school, a church and two small clubs by the water. You are visiting a village rather than checking into one. It also means very little to organise once you are down. The harbour is a few minutes' walk from almost everything, so the afternoon starts as soon as the small plane stops.
Green Turtles in the Farmer's Cay Harbour
Most Asked For
Green turtles graze in the shallow harbour, and they are what most parties ask about first. They are there all year rather than in a season, in clear water about waist deep, so this is one wildlife stop that works with small children too. It happens off the beach and the dock instead of after an hour in a boat, which is why it fits a single afternoon. Say how many will get in when you send the date, and add water toys if the rest of the day is going to be in the water as well.
The First Friday in February
One Weekend a Year
The island has its own festival, the Five Fs, short for the First Friday in February Farmer's Cay Festival. It is a regatta and a homecoming in one: families come back from Nassau and from abroad, and visiting boats fill the anchorage. The races are sailed in traditional Bahamian wooden sloops, one sail each and the crew leaning out on planks over the side, over several days rather than one afternoon. Ashore there is music and food, and a village of sixty hosts several hundred. It is the one date in the year to ask about early. A milestone planned around that weekend is a different booking from a quiet week in autumn, and the beds on the island run to single figures.
Farmer's Cay Cut and Exuma Sound
Deep Water Next Door
The cut between Little and Big Farmer's Cay is one of the few deep passes in the northern Exumas. Boats that have spent days on the shallow bank come through it to reach Exuma Sound, the deep water on the other side of the chain. It asks for respect. When days of easterly wind meet an outgoing tide the swell stacks up, and the current runs hard through the cut whatever the tide is doing. For anglers it is the reason to come. Deep water is minutes away rather than an hour, and the flats behind the cay hold bonefish, so a morning can take in both. Bonefishing and flats access is booked from this island.
The Sandbar Off Big Farmer's Cay
Low Water Only
Big Farmer's Cay is five minutes across the water and nobody lives on it. As the tide drops, a sandbar close to a mile long dries out beside it, and that open sand in the middle of the sea is the picture most people take home. It is where a beach picnic goes. Low water sets the hour, not your preference, so this is the part of the day the sea decides, and it is worth naming with the date so the flights are timed around it.
The Harbour and the Two Clubs
Where the Day Sits
Visiting boats lie in the sheltered water on the bank side. The little harbour has a government pier, the yacht club has a dock with power and water at the north west end, and there is a row of moorings for anyone not anchoring. Both clubs serve food and drinks, both have a room or two, and both are a short walk from the water. If a boat is meeting your party, a dock pickup takes them straight aboard, and a yacht transfer does the same alongside in the anchorage.
Black Point and Staniel Cay
Minutes North
Black Point is about nine miles north on Great Guana Cay. It is the largest settlement in the Exumas outside George Town, a few hundred people with a laundromat cruisers plan their week around and one of the best known kitchens in the chain. Staniel Cay is about fifteen miles north, the busiest cay in the northern Exumas, with Thunderball Grotto, Big Major Cay and Compass Cay close by. Both are a short boat run from Farmer's Cay, and a morning out to either fits around a day built on the village.
Onward From Farmer's Cay
Same Charter
A private jet charter from Miami to Farmer's Cay can also be one part of a longer trip. Staniel Cay has its own jet page, Great Exuma lies further down the chain, and Norman's Cay at the top is where the jet lands anyway. That is how one cay becomes island hopping or a wider Bahamas day by air. Staying over changes the bags rather than the route, and anything bigger than luggage is island logistics. The full island guide is on the Farmer's Cay destination page, the short version is the Farmer's Cay getaway and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Farmer's Cay?
Send the date and the number of guests. You get what is free, what it costs and the hour it can leave, and nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Jet to Farmer's Cay Add-Ons
Name the ones you want with your dates and they come back priced next to the aircraft.
In Detail
Private Jet from Miami to Farmer's Cay: The Gulf Stream, Norman's Cay and a Village of Sixty
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: why a jet is the aircraft that ignores the afternoon over the Stream, how late the hour can still move, where the border is cleared before the small plane, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Farmer's Cay from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Farmer's Cay
The hard part of reaching a village a third of the way down the Exumas is not the distance. It is what the afternoon sky does on the way, and the fact that no airline lands anywhere near it. Cloud builds over the Gulf Stream from late morning and again over the bank, so two hundred miles of open water is a lot of weather to work around. An aircraft that stays low ducks under it or waits. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one level all the way to Norman's Cay, which is why a day at Farmer's Cay can be fixed weeks ahead and still happen on the date it says. The other half is time on the ground. Customs and the small plane take the same time on any aircraft, so a faster long leg leaves more of the day for the turtles, the sandbar and the cut. The cabin carries your party and nobody else on jets in the fleet of this size. Other private jet routes from Miami are flown the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Farmer's Cay: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Farmer's Cay
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name, and nothing scheduled flies to Farmer's Cay to set one. You choose the hour you lift off in Miami, the hour you want to be walking down to the harbour and which airport in the city suits your morning. The small plane from Norman's Cay is timed to the jet, not the other way round. A change the week before is a message to us. If the drive is shorter the other way, the same day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. Check-in in Miami is half an hour and no more. Nobody calls a boarding group and nobody weighs a bag at a desk: it is loaded while you watch, and the jet goes when the last of your party has taken a seat. The hour home moves on the same terms. The sandbar across the cut only shows as the tide falls and the fishing is best on the turn, so a day that ends when the water is done rather than when a printed time says is the usual shape of this one.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Farmer's Cay: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Farmer's Cay crossing
A private jet from Miami to Farmer's Cay crosses an international border twice, and both crossings are filed in advance rather than on the morning. The crew files all three: the declaration out of Florida, the clearance on arrival and the US return. The first landing in the country is Norman's Cay, because Farmer's Cay has no customs desk of its own. Customs and immigration sit on the field where the jet lands, so passports are seen there, once, before the small plane carries on south down the Exuma chain. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. Rods, coolers and the rest are covered by the baggage guidance, and if weather moves the day, the weather and delays policy sets out what happens next. Someone joining or dropping out late means one message from you; the filing is redone on our side.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Farmer's Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A birthday, a regatta weekend or a fishing trip to Farmer's Cay
A private jet from Miami to Farmer's Cay is booked for the day that has to happen: a proposal on the sandbar at low water, a birthday at one of the two clubs, a party of anglers who want the cut at first light. With a stop and a second aircraft on the way, the jet decides whether the date survives the journey. Some take a room at one of the two clubs and stay the weekend. Others fly down for a long weekend and are home when they said they would be. Both are the same charter, and nobody in the group travels separately. When the trip marks something to celebrate, tell us with the dates: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers come along. In a village of sixty with no shop to speak of, that is how the evening turns out as planned, and it is loaded in Miami before you board. An occasion leaves no slack in the date, and that is the second reason it flies on a jet. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Farmer's Cay is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Farmer's Cay: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Farmer's Cay?
Little Farmer's Cay lies about two hundred and seventy miles southeast of Miami, a third of the way down the Exuma chain. The jet flies to Norman's Cay, customs is cleared there, and a small plane covers the last forty seven nautical miles. The real figure is both flights plus the time on the ground between them, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a page.
Why does the jet land at Norman's Cay and not on Farmer's Cay?
Because the strip on Farmer's Cay is too short for a jet. Norman's Cay, at the top of the chain, has a paved runway long enough for one and customs on the same field. From there the last leg is a small plane, which lands on the island's own strip a short walk from the harbour. Both legs are booked together, so nothing is left to arrange when you land.
Is Little Farmer's Cay the same place as Farmer's Cay?
Yes. Little Farmer's Cay is the full name of the island with the village on it, and almost everyone shortens it. Big Farmer's Cay is the empty island directly across the cut, five minutes by boat, and it is the one with the long sandbar that shows at low tide. The small plane lands on Little Farmer's Cay.
Where do we clear customs on the way to Farmer's Cay?
At Norman's Cay. A Bahamas flight has to make its first landing in the country at an airport of entry, and Farmer's Cay is not one, so the jet lands where customs and immigration sit. Passports are seen there, the small plane carries on south afterwards, 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.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
Whichever of the Miami business airports is closest to where you are that morning; there is more than one, and the drive is the part to keep short when the tide is waiting at the other end. Coming back, the jet lands where US customs has an inspection station, and that is fixed in the routing too. Departures from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach have their own pages.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Nothing scheduled flies to Farmer's Cay, so there is no timetable to work around. You fix the hour when you confirm, and the small plane is 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 cay where the tide decides the sandbar and the fishing.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. Both aircraft carry the names on your list and no one else, so the cabin to Norman's Cay and the small plane after it are your party alone. Nobody is seated next to a stranger and nothing departs with someone still parking. A name added or taken off in the last days is handled by us as a change to the filing, while the booking itself stays exactly as it was.
Do I need a passport for Farmer's Cay?
Yes, for every passenger including children. Farmer's Cay is in the Bahamas, and the passports are checked at Norman's Cay on the way in. The details are taken with the first message, we file them for the Bahamas and for the return, and the travel documents page lists what each guest needs. Keep the same passports to hand for the flight home, because US customs sees them once more on landing in Florida.
How early do we need to be there?
Half an hour is enough. In Miami there is no terminal hall between the car and the steps, and the paperwork for the flight out was filed by us days earlier, so you arrive, the bags are loaded and the jet leaves. No boarding pass, no queue and no counter on the way.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Rarely enough to change the plan, which over two hundred miles of open water is the reason to take a jet. It climbs through the cloud that holds smaller aircraft on the ground and stays above it to Norman's Cay. If a day is rough enough to matter even so, it moves: you hear as soon as we do, a new date is agreed with you, and the aircraft stays yours, so nobody is waiting on a seat that went to someone else.
Can we fly in for the Farmer's Cay Festival?
Yes, and it is the one weekend to ask about early. The First Friday in February Farmer's Cay Festival, the Five Fs, brings families home from Nassau and abroad and fills the anchorage with visiting boats for the sloop races. The island has only a handful of beds, so a stay over that weekend is arranged with the flight, and the hour home is set around the racing rather than the other way round.
How do we start?
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 and the small plane in it, and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word. If the day has anything else in it, a boat across to the sandbar, a guide for the cut or a table at one of the clubs, 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.
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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