The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Flamingo Cay
Flamingo Cay is an empty island in the Jumentos: a white beach, a sea cave and a trail to the shrimp ponds, with no runway, no dock and nobody living on it. So the jet lands on Great Exuma, at Exuma International, and a boat from George Town runs around forty nautical miles south, an hour and a half to two hours.
A day built around a long boat ride depends on the hour the jet arrives. Arrive late and the beach gets an hour, not an afternoon. Around two hundred and ninety nautical miles of open water lie between city and cay. A jet climbs above their weather, so the boat leaves the dock at the hour you agreed.
We handle every piece of the chain: the departure airport, the crew and aircraft, the car to the dock in George Town, the boat south, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings passports and a bag. Lunch, shade and water come with the flight, because the cay has none. Customs for the Bahamas is cleared at Exuma International itself, on the field the jet stops on. The cay is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each is a different day.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay Charter
Miami to Flamingo Cay Private Jet
How a Private Jet Flamingo Cay from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Flamingo Cay jet charter involves more than the time in the air above the Gulf Stream. Here is what every flight includes, from your first message to the moment you step onto the beach at Flamingo Cay.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay CharterDistance and Flight Level
Around Two Hundred and Ninety Miles from Miami
The cay lies around two hundred and ninety nautical miles south east of the city, and every one of them is open water where an afternoon front can stall a slower aircraft. The jet goes over that front rather than into it, and it lifts off when you say, because no other booking is waiting for it.
The Whole Aircraft
One Cabin for Your Party, Nobody Added
Only your party flies. Who sits where, when you leave and what goes in the hold for a day on an empty cay are fixed with us in advance, not worked out on the ramp. No stranger is added once you have booked, and the boat south carries the same list of names.
Where the Jet Puts Down
Exuma International, Then the Boat South
There is no runway on the cay, so the jet lands at Exuma International on Great Exuma. A car takes you into George Town, and a boat runs around forty nautical miles south down the bank, an hour and a half to two hours on the water.
Both Borders
Passports, Manifest, and Both Borders for the Cay
The Jumentos are Bahamian water, so the trip leaves one country and enters another. Send the passport details with the enquiry and the travel documents are filed by us for the outbound and the return. Nobody in the party fills in a form on the day.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Water, and Shade for the Cay
The cay has no shop, no shade and no fresh water, so what the day needs flies with you: chef catering, a cooler, an umbrella, masks and fins. It is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it, and it rides the boat south with you.
How Long the Day Runs
Long Day to a Week Around Flamingo Cay
Out and back in one day works, but the boat takes four hours of it. Most parties stay a night in George Town or on a yacht, or carry on to Long Island on the way back: the aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Flamingo 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 how long you want on the cay. Tell us the hour you would like to leave, and whether the boat should wait off the beach or bring you back to town.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send what fits your party. Each option comes with its seats, baggage and flight time, and the boat south from George Town is quoted on the same page. The price is for the aircraft, not per seat, so four guests pay what eight would.
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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 car at the terminal for the drive to the dock, ground transport at home, the boat to the cay. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure airport and everything included come back to you.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal queue to join. Just make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you lift off, climb out over the bay, and the day starts.
On the Cay
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Flamingo Cay Puts You Down
The jet is where a Flamingo Cay day really begins. A flight high over the Gulf Stream, a long boat run south out of George Town, and then a white beach with nobody on it, a sea cave in the southern shore and bonefish on the flats. Below is what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay CharterThe Sea Cave on the South Side
Most Asked For
The cave is what parties talk about on the boat home. It opens at the waterline on the southern tip of the cay, a tender slips in through the mouth at low water, and the floor inside is covered in conch shells. Light falls through holes in the roof onto the water, so the inside glows rather than going dark, and the colour changes through the day. High water closes the mouth, which makes the tide the one thing worth fixing before the jet's departure hour is set.
The Long White Beach
Where the Day Sits
The beach on the north west side runs out of sight in fine white sand, and on most days nobody is standing on it. Crews who have sailed the whole chain rank it among the best in the Bahamas, and it stays that way because so little reaches it. The boat from George Town anchors off it in five to fifteen feet over sand. It is an open anchorage rather than a harbour, so a north swell makes it roll, and that is checked against your date along with the flight. Everything the afternoon needs comes ashore with you, which makes this the place for a beach picnic with catering loaded in Miami.
Snorkelling off Flamingo Cay
Five to Fifteen Feet
Around the cay the water runs five to fifteen feet over sand and hard coral, with gorgonians standing up out of it and turtle grass in between. Two large rocks off the beach mark the best stretch. No town, no river and no traffic sit anywhere near enough to cloud it, so clear water is the normal day here. There is no dive shop either: masks and fins ride the boat out with the party, and water toys can be added when you book.
The Trail and the Shrimp Ponds
A Short Walk
A single path crosses the cay from the beach to the ponds on the far side, marked with flip-flops wedged into the rock by whoever walked it before. It takes minutes, and it is the only path there is. The ponds hold small bright red shrimp, a species that lives in tidal holes like these and is uncommon enough to justify the walk. They are also behind the name: shrimp like these are what turn a flamingo pink. There is no shade at either end, so water and hats come along.
The Flats and the Bonefish
Fishing Days
The Jumentos are fished by people who have already fished the easier places. Bonefish work the sand on the lee side of the chain, and the flats here see a fraction of the boats the Exumas do, because nothing commercial runs this far south. There is no lodge and no guide waiting on the cay. Rods, leaders and a cooler travel with the party, and a longer run at the flats is booked against the tide, which is known weeks out, so the jet's hour is set around it.
Where the Flamingos Actually Are
About the Name
The name promises a bird almost nobody sees here. Crews who have anchored off the cay for years find the ponds full of shrimp and empty of flamingos: the name comes from the food, not from a colony standing in it. The birds themselves are a different flight. Great Inagua, at the southern end of the Bahamas, holds the colony people travel for, and a private jet to Inagua is its own day out of Miami rather than a detour from here. Tell us early if the birds are the point.
The Jumentos Around the Cay
North and South
Flamingo Cay sits near the middle of a chain of cays and rocks that runs about a hundred and ten miles. None of it is developed, and Ragged Island at the southern end is the only inhabited one, with around fifty people living there. By boat these are long distances. Ragged Island lies about fifty miles south and Long Island about fifty three miles east across the sound, so a second stop is usually a second day, and it is planned with the flight.
Onward with the Same Aircraft
Same Aircraft
Because the jet is held for your party, the cay does not have to be the whole trip. It is often one day of several, with nights in George Town and the jet route up the Exumas or on to Nassau afterwards, as island hopping. What goes in the hold is weighed with the party, per the baggage guidance, and anything larger than luggage is island logistics. The full guide sits on the Flamingo Cay destination page, the packaged version is the Flamingo Cay getaway day trip and the rest of the islands are on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay Add-Ons
Tell us which of these you want when you send your dates and they come back priced with the aircraft.
In Detail
Private Jet from Miami to Flamingo Cay: The Gulf Stream Below You and the Long Boat Run into the Jumentos
Below is the detail behind the day: why a jet keeps the boat on time, how late the hour can move, who files paperwork, and what a milestone looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Flamingo Cay from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Flamingo Cay
On most routes the time in the air is only the gap between two airports. On this one it sets the whole day, because the trip goes on by water after the runway. Around two hundred and ninety nautical miles of sea separate Miami from the cay, and one afternoon front on that stretch is enough to shift everything. Boats sit it out and small aircraft turn back. The jet goes up through it and cruises well above, so weather that stops the others rarely touches its schedule. Here that matters twice. The boat from George Town needs close to two hours to reach the Jumentos, the light on the bank decides how it runs, and a late arrival eats the beach you came for. A jet that lands when it said it would keeps the boat on its hour. Only your party is on board jets in the fleet of this size, and every other private jet route from Miami works the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Flamingo Cay: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Flamingo Cay
A charter has no timetable to hand you. The day starts at the hour you choose. You set three things: when the jet lifts off, when the boat pulls away from George Town and which field in the city is closest to your morning. The aircraft belongs to your party for the day, so none of that is ours to fix, and moving it a week out takes one message. When the drive works better from the north, the same day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. Check-in is thirty minutes before departure and nothing more. The car pulls up at the aircraft, and the manifest lists your party alone. The return hour matters more here, because the boat back is long. Low water at the sea cave, a swim that runs on or a beach worth staying for are all reasons to move it, and on a charter that is a message rather than new tickets for everybody.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Flamingo Cay: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Flamingo Cay crossing
A private jet from Miami to Flamingo Cay crosses a border twice in a day, and that is the part that goes wrong unfiled. Entry asks for a declaration from Florida, clearance on arrival and a US return filed before you leave, which sets where you land on the way home. The crew files all three. The arrival clears at Exuma International, which is a port of entry in its own right, so customs is done before anyone steps onto the boat. Nothing further is asked for on the cay. Passports for everyone, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. The landing point home comes with the quote, a delay under the weather and delays policy. If the party changes, the crew refiles: a name added or dropped is a message.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Flamingo Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A long day, a long weekend or something to celebrate at Flamingo Cay
A private jet from Miami to Flamingo Cay is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend with the people who matter. A beach with nobody else on it is the rare thing down here. Some parties make it a long day and are home the same night. Others stay on in George Town and book the return for the day they want. Either way it is a single charter with every guest on the same booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you and ride the boat south. Forty miles from the nearest shop, anything left in Miami stays in Miami. That, and a date that cannot move, is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Flamingo Cay buys.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Flamingo Cay: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Flamingo Cay?
The cay sits around two hundred and ninety nautical miles south east of the city. In a jet that is a short hop, and the precise block time is part of the quote rather than a figure on a web page.
The longer part of the trip is the water: from George Town the boat runs around forty nautical miles south, an hour and a half to two hours. Plan the day around that, and the flight is the quick part of it.
Can a private jet land on Flamingo Cay?
No. The cay is uninhabited, with no runway, no dock and nothing built on it. Jets put down at Exuma International on Great Exuma, a paved field that is also a port of entry, so customs happens where the aircraft stops.
A car then runs you into George Town and a boat carries the party south to the cay. We book all three as a single trip, so there is no boat to find on the dock and no taxi to find at the terminal.
How do we get from the airport to the cay?
By road and then by water, both set up with the flight. It is a short drive from Exuma International into George Town, and from there the boat runs around forty nautical miles south down the bank into the Jumentos, an hour and a half to two hours depending on the sea.
Its departure is timed to your landing, and a flight that moves takes the boat with it. Tell us whether it should stay off the beach all day or return for you later.
Why fly a jet when the last leg is a boat?
Because the boat is the long part and it runs on an hour. Two hundred and ninety miles of open water is enough that an afternoon of cloud moves the day, and that stops boats and turns light aircraft back. The jet flies over that layer, lands when planned, and the boat pulls away from the dock on schedule. The hours on the beach are then the ones you booked.
What is there to do on Flamingo Cay?
Take a tender into the sea cave on the south shore at low water, walk the trail to the ponds with their small red shrimp, snorkel off the two large rocks in five to fifteen feet of water, and fish the flats.
The beach on the north west side is long, white and usually empty. Tell us which of these the day is for, and the gear is arranged with the flight. There is no shop, no shade and no fresh water, so lunch, drinks and shade fly out with you and ride the boat.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
The city has several business fields, and we use the one nearest to where your party starts the day. 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. Tell us where your party is staying and the airport is picked around that rather than the other way round.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Choosing the hour is what a charter is for, and that goes for the return too: it is fixed when you confirm and can still be moved later.
The boat hour moves with it, so an afternoon that runs long on the beach is a message rather than a rebooking. Tell us whether you want the cave at the morning low water or the afternoon one, and the flight is set around it.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. The jet flies only the names you give us, and the boat to the cay carries that same group. You will not be assigned a seat or share the cabin with another party. Names can still be added or dropped until shortly before departure, and we simply refile the manifest. The same goes for the boat south to the cay: it carries your party and your bags, nothing else.
Do I need a passport for Flamingo Cay?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The cay is in the Bahamas, a different country, and a jet does not change that. We collect everyone's passport details with the enquiry and file both directions before you fly. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when. The cay itself asks for no second document once you have cleared at Exuma International.
How early do we need to be there?
About thirty minutes. Neither end has a terminal line. You get out of the car, walk to the aircraft and board, and the outbound filing has already gone in from our side, so there is nothing to hand over and nothing to print.
Can we do it as a day trip?
Yes, as a long one. The crossing takes a fraction of the day and the arrival clears on the field, but the boat takes close to four hours there and back. Leave early and the beach still gets the middle of the day.
Parties who want the cay at first light or the cave at a particular tide usually stay a night in George Town instead. Either way it is one charter, and the return hour stays movable.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and that is the point of the aircraft. The jet cruises over the weather that keeps smaller aircraft on the ground.
If a day still has to move, we rebook rather than fly it badly, you hear about it as soon as we do, and the boat is moved along with the flight. The anchorage off the beach is open to the north, so a north swell is checked against your date as well.
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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