The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Great Exuma
Great Exuma is the big island at the southern end of the chain, thirty seven miles of it, with George Town on Elizabeth Harbour and a bridge at the far end onto Little Exuma. Two hundred and seventy six nautical miles of open water lie between the city and that harbour, and the runway sits on the island itself rather than somewhere you have to reach from.
The water in between is what decides the day. An afternoon of cloud over the Stream stops a boat and turns a light aircraft back, and at this range that is a real risk rather than a rare one. A jet answers it by going over. It climbs above the layer that keeps the other aircraft on the ground, holds one altitude the whole way across, and hands back the hours the distance would otherwise take out of the day.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag. The hour you leave, who sits in the cabin and what is on board are settled before the day rather than at the ramp. The same island is reached the other four ways as well: by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each of those is a different day.
Plan Your Great Exuma Charter
How It Works
How a Private Jet Great Exuma from Miami Flight Actually Works
A jet is the fast way across this water, and speed on its own is not what parties book it for. What they book is a day that happens: above the weather instead of waiting on it, on the ground where they are actually staying, and back with the evening still theirs.
What follows is the whole sequence in order, from the hour you name to the borders and what waits on the ground.
Plan Your Great Exuma CharterDistance and Flight Level
Two Hundred and Seventy Six Miles from Miami
George Town lies around two hundred and seventy six nautical miles south east of the city, far enough that the weather in between is what decides the day. A jet crosses above that layer rather than through it. The hour you pick is the hour it leaves, because the aircraft has nowhere else to be.
The Whole Aircraft
One Private Cabin, One Party, Nobody Added
The cabin carries your party and nobody else. Seating, the departure hour and what is on board are agreed before the day rather than found at the ramp, which is the part that separates a charter from a good seat on somebody else's aeroplane. Nobody is added to it after you book.
Where the Jet Puts Down
On Great Exuma, Not Off It
Exuma International sits on Great Exuma itself, a short drive from George Town, and that is the whole argument for this island over the cays further north.
There is no ferry, no second aircraft and no crossing in a boat once the wheels stop. Elizabeth Harbour, Stocking Island and the resorts up the coast are all on the same piece of land you landed on.
Both Borders
Passports, Manifest, and Both Borders into Great Exuma
The Bahamas is a different country and a jet does not change that. We take the passport details once, at the enquiry, and the travel documents go in from our side rather than yours, for the way out and the way home. Your party brings the passports it already has.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations, and a Car on the Island
Chef catering, a cake for a birthday, snorkelling gear and a cooler: what comes aboard is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. Ashore the same applies, and here it is mostly a car or a cart, because the island is long and what you came for is spread along one road.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip to a Week on Great Exuma
The crossing costs a fraction of the day even at this range, so out in the morning and home in the evening genuinely works here, which it does not for the middle of the chain. Stay on, 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 to Miami from Great Exuma
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 Great Exuma
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Great Exuma 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
We check what is free on your date and send what fits your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group on the same aircraft costs the same as a full one.
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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 waiting at the terminal for the drive into town, ground transport to where you are staying. 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.
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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 Island
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Great Exuma Puts You Down
Great Exuma is the island the runway is on, and that is what makes the list below short at the top and long at the bottom.
Nothing here has to be reached: George Town, Elizabeth Harbour and the beaches up the coast are on the same piece of land the aircraft stopped on, and a bridge at the southern end carries the road on to Little Exuma.
What follows is what parties actually do with the hours, in the order they ask for it, and how far each one is from where you land.
The one entry that is genuinely far away is named as far away, because the cays in the middle of the chain are a different day and we would rather say so before you book than after.
Plan Your Great Exuma CharterElizabeth Harbour and George Town
Minutes from the Runway
Elizabeth Harbour is the long sheltered water in front of George Town, and in season it holds a few hundred cruising boats at anchor. The town sits around Lake Victoria on one side of it, with the administration building, the straw market and the shops in a few streets you can walk in an afternoon. It is a short drive from where the jet stops, which is the whole argument for this island: the day starts when the wheels do. The harbour is also a port of entry for arrival by water, so a yacht transfer and a jet fit together here without a second set of paperwork. The hull can already be on the mooring when you land.
Stocking Island and the Sandbar
Across the Water
Stocking Island lies straight across the harbour from the town, around two kilometres of water and roughly four miles long. Ocean beach on the outside, flat shallow water on the inside, and walking tracks over the ridge between the two. The crossing is a boat ride of minutes rather than an outing, which is why most parties staying in town end up over there at some point in the day. Add water toys for the afternoon or a dock pickup if a boat is meeting you, and both are ordered with the flight rather than found after you land.
The Flats and Exuma Sound
Fishing Days
The shallow water behind the island is bonefish ground, and the deep water on the ocean side of it is Exuma Sound. Two entirely different days out of the same harbour, and both of them start early. That is the practical reason the departure hour on this route is worth choosing rather than accepting. A day on the flats is booked against the tide, and the tide is known weeks out, so the aircraft can be pointed at it instead of the other way round.
The Swimming Pigs, Fifty Miles North
A Separate Day
The pigs are wild, they live on an uninhabited cay, and they swim out to meet a boat because people have been feeding them for decades. They are the single most asked for thing in the Exumas and they are not on this island. Big Major Cay sits around fifty miles north of Great Exuma, near Staniel Cay in the middle of the chain, roughly two hours each way in a fast boat. Out of a stay here that is a full day, not an afternoon, and nobody should promise you the pigs and an evening flight home in the same booking. Say when you send the date whether they are the reason for the trip, because it changes the shape of it rather than the price. If they are, the jet route up the chain is the better place to start, or the day runs on a seaplane or a helicopter, which put down in the middle of the cays directly.
Tropic of Cancer Beach and Little Exuma
Over the Bridge
A bridge at the southern end carries the road off Great Exuma and on to Little Exuma, and the best known beach in the whole chain sits down there: a long curve of white sand on the line of the Tropic of Cancer, usually with nobody on it. It is a drive rather than a boat trip, which on this island is the recurring theme. A car or a cart for the length of the stay is worth more here than anywhere else in the Exumas, and ground transport is arranged with the flight so it is standing there when you come out.
George Town and the Regatta
On Foot
George Town is the administrative centre of the Exumas and the largest settlement on the island: a church on the rise above the main road, the lake in the middle of it, and the fish fry at the water north of town where the cooking happens in a row of separate kitchens. Once a year the harbour fills for the sailing regatta, and everything on the island books out around it. If your date is anywhere near it, say so early: a fly and dine day and a table ashore are both easy in an ordinary week and neither is easy in that one.
The North End and the Beaches Up the Island
Up the Coast
North of town the road runs up the coast past one empty beach after another to the deep water marina and the resort ground at Emerald Bay. Thirty seven miles of island end to end means the two ends feel like different places. A beach picnic goes wherever the wind is behaving on the day, and that is settled the morning of rather than weeks ahead. Where a party is split across houses at both ends of the island, the transfers are arranged as one job with the flight.
Onward Down the Chain
Same Aircraft
The Exumas run north from here for about a hundred and thirty miles, and the cays in the middle and at the top are their own trip: Compass Cay, Norman's Cay with the wreck in the shallows off it, the park above that. From the southern end they are reached by water and measured in hours. In the air they are minutes, so a party staying here for a week often does the chain as a separate day rather than a boat ride, and a scenic run down the cays is the cheapest way to see the whole line at once. Onward flying, overnight stays and the water behind the island are all on the Great Exuma destination page, the packaged version is the Great Exuma getaway day trip, and for anything that will not travel in the cabin there is island logistics.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Great Exuma?
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 Great Exuma 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 Great Exuma: The Weather Above the Water, Elizabeth Harbour and the Short Way Ashore
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: why a jet is the aircraft that ignores the afternoon at this range, how late the hour can still move, who does the paperwork, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Great Exuma from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Great Exuma
The crossing is not dead time between two airports, and on a run this long it is not the part that usually goes wrong either. The weather is. Two hundred and seventy six nautical miles of open water sit between Miami and George Town, and an afternoon of weather anywhere along them moves the day. A boat waits it out, a light aircraft flies under it or not at all. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude the whole way across, so a front that grounds everything else is usually a non-event. At this range that is the difference between a trip and a gamble. Great Exuma becomes plannable a week ahead rather than on the morning, and because the runway is on the island itself there is no second weather question waiting at the far end: no ferry to catch, no boat to hold, no smaller aircraft that needs its own window. The hours saved are the hours you get back, and 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 Great Exuma: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Great Exuma
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be standing on Great Exuma and which airport in the city suits your morning. The aircraft belongs to your party for the day, so all three are your decision rather than a departure somebody else set, and 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. Half an hour before the lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go on in front of you, and the list for that flight carries your names and nobody else's. The return hour matters as much as the outbound one here, and it is the half most people forget. A table across the water on Stocking Island, a slack tide on the flats or an afternoon that simply runs long are all reasons to move it, and on a charter that is a message rather than a new set of tickets.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Great Exuma: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Great Exuma crossing
A private jet from Miami to Great Exuma crosses an international border twice in a day, and that is the part that goes wrong when nobody files it ahead. Entry asks for a declaration from Florida, clearance at a port of entry on arrival and a US return filed before you leave, which sets where you land coming home. The crew files all three. Your party carries a valid passport and nothing else. Exuma International is itself a port of entry, so the arrival clears on the field the aircraft stops on rather than at a second airport flown first, and the dock in George Town is listed for arrival by water as well. That is worth knowing if a hull is meeting you: it can clear on the same harbour you are staying on. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. The landing point coming home comes with the quote, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. If the party changes, the crew refiles: a name added or dropped is a message to us, not a problem for you.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Great Exuma: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Great Exuma
A private jet from Miami to Great Exuma is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend away with the people who matter. The island is quiet enough that the occasion, not the crowd, is what the day is about. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening, which works here precisely because nothing follows the landing. Others stay on and book the return for the day they want. Both are one charter, and the whole group travels together on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. Everything is in place before you board in Miami, and out here that is the whole of it: a settlement this size does not hold a table, a boat or a cart for a party that arrives asking. A date that has to look like something cannot afford to move either, and that is the other half of what this aircraft buys you. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Great Exuma is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Great Exuma: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Great Exuma?
George Town sits around two hundred and seventy six nautical miles south east of the city, which makes it one of the longer crossings we fly out of Miami. On a jet that is still a short leg, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.
What matters more is that the crossing costs so little of the day that an island this far out is still a day trip if you want it to be.
Why take a jet this far out?
The weather and the distance together. Two hundred and seventy six miles of open water is enough that an afternoon of cloud anywhere along it moves the day, and that is what stops boats and turns light aircraft back.
A jet climbs above the layer and holds one altitude across, so a front that would ground everything else is usually a non-event. It is also the version of this trip that comes back with the evening intact.
Can a private jet land on Great Exuma?
Yes. Exuma International sits on the island itself, outside George Town, with a paved runway a jet can use. It is also a port of entry, so the border desk is on the same field the aircraft stops on and there is no separate customs airport to fly first.
That combination is the reason this island, rather than the cays further north, is the one a jet goes to directly.
How far is it from the runway to where we are staying?
Short, and that is the point of this island. George Town, Elizabeth Harbour and the resorts along the coast are all on Great Exuma, so what follows the landing is a car rather than a boat or a second aircraft.
The island runs about thirty seven miles end to end and a bridge carries the road on to Little Exuma, so tell us the address and the transfer is arranged with the flight.
What about the swimming pigs?
They are about fifty miles north of here, at Big Major Cay in the middle of the chain, which is roughly two hours each way in a fast boat.
That is a full day out of a stay on Great Exuma rather than something to fit around an evening flight home. If the pigs are the reason for the trip rather than an extra, the page for a jet up the chain is the better starting point.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
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. 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. That is the main thing a charter buys you, and it applies to the way home as well: the hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes. An afternoon that runs long on the sandbar is a message rather than a rebooking.
Is anyone else on the jet?
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.
Do I need a passport for Great Exuma?
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.
How early do we need to be there?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal queue to join at either end. You arrive, you walk out to the aircraft, and the outbound border filing is already done from our side before you get there, so there is nothing to hand in and nothing to print.
Can we do it as a day trip?
Yes, and this is the island in the chain where that genuinely works. The crossing takes a fraction of the day even at this range, both ends are quick, nothing has to be caught after you land, and the return hour stays movable while you are still there. On anything slower the same itinerary is two days with a night in it.
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. A jet operates above the layer that grounds the rest, so an afternoon of weather in the middle of the crossing 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.
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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