Private Jet from Miami to Great Guana Cay

About 200 statute miles separate the city from Great Abaco, a little under 174 nautical, and a jet covers that quickly. We put the block time in the quote instead of on a web page, because it depends on the aircraft and the field you leave from.

The number that actually shapes the trip is how little of the day the flying takes, which is what leaves the ocean side of the cay open to you.

It cannot. Seven miles of sand, beach and settlement, a single track down the middle and no strip anywhere on it. The aircraft therefore stops at Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco, and a short road leg and a boat finish the journey north. You book one thing, not three, and all of it is settled in Florida.

A few minutes by road from the apron to the dock, then roughly half an hour across the Sea of Abaco. The boat is held for your aircraft rather than run to a published departure, so the skipper knows which landing he is waiting on and a late flight changes nothing for you.

Because the two hundred miles before the dock are the part that goes wrong. The Stream builds cloud and squalls along that line from the middle of the day, and on a crossing this long that is what pushes trips into tomorrow. A jet sits above the layer at one altitude and simply passes over it.

Great Abaco helps too: 6,100 feet of asphalt stays usable in wind that closes a short strip, and the border desk is already on the field. The last boat north is not going to wait for you, and buying certainty about reaching it is the point.

Two shores, a few minutes apart. Grabbers looks west over the flat water of the Sea of Abaco, Nippers sits up on the ridge above the Atlantic surf, and the settlement with its harbour holds the south end.

Baker's Bay and its marina are four and a half miles north up the track, and the reef runs offshore the whole length of the chain. Tell us which of those the day is built around.

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 actually staying and the airport is picked around that rather than the other way round.

Within daylight and the crew's duty limits, the hour is yours. On this route that matters more than usual, because a boat leg follows the flight.

You fix the time at booking and can still move it afterwards: the aircraft has nowhere else to be and carries nobody else. The boat waiting on Great Abaco is tied to your arrival rather than to a printed schedule, so it shifts when you do.

Never. You name the passengers and that is the whole manifest. No seat numbers, no strangers across the aisle, no chance of the aircraft pushing back while part of your group is still parking. Names can also be added or removed close to the day, which costs us a refiling and costs you a message.

Everyone needs one, children included. The Bahamas is another country whatever you arrive in. We collect the details once when you enquire and file both directions before departure. Since the clearance happens on landing at Great Abaco, the boat north counts as domestic travel. The travel documents page sets out what each passenger provides and by when.

Often, yes. The flying is short, the boat leg is short, and because the return hour stays open while you are still on the sand, you are not counting backwards from a last departure the way scheduled travel forces you to. Parties who would rather not rush take a house on the cay and fly home on a day of their choosing.

It interferes less here than with anything else that flies this water, which is the argument for the aircraft. The jet works above the layer that keeps others down, and Great Abaco's runway handles conditions a short strip cannot.

If a day does have to shift, you hear it as soon as we do, and since the aircraft was held for your party it is a conversation rather than a scramble for the next free seat. The crossing to the cay is the weather-sensitive link, so on a rough afternoon that is what gets rescheduled, not the flight.

None, and for most visitors that is the appeal. Carts, bicycles and footpaths cover it, the lanes in the settlement would not take anything wider, and the island is narrow enough to walk from the harbour side to the Atlantic side.

We arrange the cart alongside the flight, and a boat for the afternoon too if the reef rather than the sand is the plan.

That follows from the aircraft and from what the group is bringing, so it belongs in the quote and not ahead of it.

Give us the headcount and the bags when you enquire and you will see what is available on your date, what each type takes and what each one costs. Since the price is for the airframe, the figure per head drops as the party grows.

Send the date, the headcount, the field that suits your morning and the hour you have in mind. Say as well whether you are heading for Nippers and the ocean side or straight out to the reef, since that decides whether a cart or a boat is waiting at the dock.

Back comes the availability, the price, the boarding time and the full list of what is included. Nothing is held until you confirm.

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.