The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Gun Cay
Gun Cay is a thin strip of sand and rock at the southern end of the Bimini chain, nine miles below Bimini itself and roughly fifty nautical from the city. Nobody lives on it. There is no hotel, no shop, no counter and no dock, and the only structure standing is a lighthouse on the southern tip. That is the whole appeal, and it is also the reason the hour of arrival decides everything. An island with beds forgives a delay. This one has nowhere to put you.
No jet lands here, because no aircraft does. The wheels come down at South Bimini, nine miles north, and a boat covers the rest southwards. Both halves are ours, arranged before you leave Florida. What a jet changes is the part in front of that. From late morning the Gulf Stream stacks cloud along this crossing, and everything that flies low either waits for it or goes tomorrow. An aircraft that climbs through the layer is indifferent to the same afternoon, which is how the boat south leaves on time.
Everything between the city and the sand is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and the crew, the boat on the far side, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings passports and a bag. Shade, water and anything the afternoon needs travel with you, because none of it can be bought once you step off the boat. South Bimini holds its own border desk, so the clearance happens on the field the aircraft parks on and nothing is added to the day. This cay is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each is a different day.
Plan Your Gun Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Jet Gun Cay from Miami Flight Actually Works
Reaching an empty cay is a short chain, and a chain is judged by its weakest hour rather than its fastest one. What a charter sells here is that none of those hours belong to anybody else: not the departure, not the aircraft, not the boat waiting at the other end.
What follows is the whole sequence in order, from the hour you name to the asphalt at South Bimini, the run south and the borders.
Plan Your Gun Cay CharterDistance and Flight Level
Fifty Miles of Stream, Crossed Over the Top
Gun Cay sits roughly fifty nautical miles east of the city, all of it open water. From the middle of the day the Stream builds cloud along that line, and that is what moves trips on this crossing. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude, so the weather turns into something you pass over instead of something you plan around.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party on Board and No Shared Seats
Nobody is sold a seat on this flight but you. That changes small things that turn out to matter on a day with a boat at the end of it: the seating, the bags, the cold box and the hour of departure are agreed beforehand instead of negotiated on the apron. A party running late is a phone call, not a forfeited booking.
The Runway and the Last Leg
Asphalt at South Bimini, Then Nine Miles South
Nothing lands on Gun Cay, so the aircraft puts its wheels down at South Bimini Airport, nine miles north. That is a public field with a paved runway and its own border desk, which is why a wheeled charter uses it rather than the private strip on North Cat Cay two miles the other way.
From the apron a boat runs the last nine miles south, and it is held for your landing instead of a published departure.
Both Borders
One Stop for the Paperwork, None for You
Because the field the aircraft parks on is itself a port of entry, the clearance and the flight happen in the same place, and the run south afterwards is a domestic leg. We ask for the passport pages once, when you enquire, and the crew lodges the travel documents for the outbound and the return without you touching a form.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Shade, and a Boat That Stays
An empty cay sells nothing, so what the afternoon needs comes with you: a chef and a cold table on board, shade and water for the sand, masks and fins if the reef is the plan.
The boat stays with your party rather than dropping you and leaving, which on an island with no dock is the difference between an afternoon and an errand. Say what the occasion is and the rest is put together around it.
How Long the Day Runs
An Afternoon Here or a Night on Bimini
Fifty miles each way leaves the whole day intact, so most parties fly over, take the afternoon and sleep in Florida. Nobody sleeps on this cay, so a longer trip means a bed on Bimini and a second run south the next morning. However many days that turns into, the aircraft is booked for all of them.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet to Miami from Gun 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 Gun Cay
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Gun 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 travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
Back comes what is actually available on your date: the types that fit the headcount, what each one seats, what each one will carry and what each one costs. You are chartering the aircraft rather than buying seats on it, so a party of four and a party of eight see the same figure.
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Confirm and Pay
You choose the aircraft and we fix the departure field. Then the rest of the day gets attached: catering aboard, the boat that meets the landing at South Bimini and stays with you on the sand, a dock pickup for the return leg.
Flowers, if the date is one of those. Payment closes it, and what comes back is the boarding hour, the airport and an itemised list of everything the day includes.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
No queue, no gate, no hour of standing about. Arrive thirty minutes before, walk across to the steps, and the first turn out over the water is already part of the trip.
On the Cay
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Gun Cay Puts You Down
Gun Cay reads in a single look from the air: a pale bay at the top, a lighthouse at the bottom, open water on both sides and nothing in between that anybody put there.
It is about a mile of sand and rock, nine miles below Bimini, and it is small enough that a party covers all of it in one afternoon. The jet lands on Bimini and the boat brings you down.
Below is what guests actually do with the hours in between, working down the cay from the north end and then outwards into the water around it. Nothing on this list can be bought once you are standing on the sand, which is why the boat is loaded before it leaves.
Plan Your Gun Cay CharterHoneymoon Harbour and the Stingrays
Most Asked For
The bay at the top of the cay is why most parties come at all. It is shallow, pale and out of the east wind, and the sand along its southern shore runs white with nothing standing behind it. Southern stingrays work those shallows and they have no fear of people. In knee deep water they come to you, which makes this the one thing here that works with small children in the party. Nurse sharks turn up in the same water, with conch and starfish on the sand between them. The water over these flats rises and falls on its own schedule, and it is the single hour of the day that a charter cannot move. We read the tide for your date and put the boarding time where it needs to be, which is easier when the aircraft leaves when you say rather than when a timetable does.
The Lighthouse at the South End
Lit Since 1836
The stone tower on the southern tip has been lit since 1836, which makes it older than anything else standing on this stretch of the bank. It was raised to mark the passage underneath it for shipping running west, at a time when misreading that gap put a hull on the reef. It is a landmark rather than an attraction: no visitor centre, no keeper, no path laid out for anyone. From the boat it is the fixed point that tells you which cay you are looking at, and it is the photograph parties come back with. A beach picnic at this end of the cay is set up while you are still in the air.
Gun Cay Cut
The Gateway
The channel between this cay and North Cat Cay is one of the main gates off the Gulf Stream and onto the Great Bahama Bank. Boats crossing from Florida come through here and then run east over the bank towards the Northwest Channel and Nassau beyond it. That traffic is why the water around an empty cay is busier than it looks, and why the anchorage behind it has been in use for as long as anyone has been making the crossing. Reef runs north off the Cat Cay side, so boats hug this side of the gap. For a party flying in it matters for one practical reason: the cut is where the shelter ends. On a day the Stream is up, the far side of it is a different sea from the flats behind the cay, and that decides whether the afternoon stays inshore or goes out. Say at the enquiry which of the two the day is for.
The Beach and the Shallows
Low Water
The sand on the south side of the north bay is the part people photograph. It shelves so gently that the water is still shin deep a long way out, and at low water the pale ground around the cay dries into open sandbars with nothing standing on them. There is no shade here that anybody built, no fresh water and nothing to buy, so what the afternoon needs comes off the aircraft with you. Add water toys if the party would rather spend the hours in the water than on the sand, or a dock pickup for the way back. This is the part of a Gun Cay day that rewards arriving early rather than at noon, and an aircraft that is not waiting on weather is how you do that. The bars dry, the party has them to itself, and by the time anything else has crossed the Stream you are already on them.
The Fringing Reef
In the Water
Fringing reef runs the seaward side of the cay and in places it starts close enough to the sand to swim out to. There is no boat ride to reach it and no mooring field to wait in. What it has none of is infrastructure, so masks, fins and shade travel with the party or arrive on the boat meeting you. Nothing here is for hire and there is nowhere to buy a bottle of water. Parties who want a whole day in the water usually pair this reef with the deeper sites around Bimini and let the aircraft move them between the two.
The Drop Off and the Bank
Fishing Days
Two kinds of water meet inside a mile of this cay, which is unusual anywhere. West of the cut the bottom falls away into the Gulf Stream, east of it the bank runs shallow for sixty miles. So a boat working out of here reaches blue water in minutes or the flats in the same minutes, depending which way it turns. That is the basis for bonefishing and flats access or a day built around the deep side. Rods and gear travel with the party, within what the aircraft carries on the day.
Cat Cay and Bimini
Minutes Away
North Cat Cay starts two miles south across the cut and it is a private club. The marina, the houses and the airstrip there belong to members and their sponsored guests, which is the reason a chartered jet uses Bimini instead. Worth knowing before an afternoon gets built around it, and the detail sits on the Cat Cay page. Nine miles north is Bimini, which carries the hotels, the marinas and the restaurants this cay does not, and which is where your wheels touch down in any case. A fair number of days here are really Bimini days with an hour on this sand in them, and that crossing has its own page, Bimini by private jet.
Onward Down the Chain
Same Aircraft
A private jet charter from Miami to Gun Cay also works as the first leg rather than the whole day. The same aircraft carries on east and south to Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros or Staniel Cay and the Exumas. Since the border was cleared on the way in at South Bimini, a second stop that afternoon is simply another flight. The currency it costs is daylight, so say at the enquiry if a second cay is in the plan: an extra leg shifts the fuel and what the aircraft can carry, which the baggage guidance sets out. That is what turns one cay into island hopping or a wider Bahamas day. Staying over changes where you sleep rather than the route, because nobody sleeps here. The full island guide sits on the Gun Cay destination page, the packaged version is the Gun Cay getaway day trip, the rest of the chain is on the Bahamas destinations page, and anything larger than luggage runs as island logistics.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Gun 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 Gun 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 Gun Cay: The Afternoon Cloud, South Bimini's Asphalt and an Empty Cay
Everything above is the day itself. Below it sits the reasoning: what fifty miles of Stream does to an afternoon and why this aircraft is indifferent to it, how late a departure can still be moved, who handles the border on Bimini, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Gun Cay from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Gun Cay
Fifty miles of open water sit between the city and this cay, and how you cross them decides whether the afternoon happens at all. Cloud builds along that line as the day warms, and by early afternoon it is often a wall rather than a patch. Anything that has to stay underneath it either creeps along the base or waits on the apron for the cell to move through. An aircraft with the legs to climb out the top of it never meets the problem, and the ramp full of grounded traffic in Florida is somebody else's afternoon. On Gun Cay that matters more than on an island with beds. Nothing here waits for a late party: no room held, no kitchen open, no second boat later. There is the hour you land and the hour the water turns, and neither of them negotiates. So what the aircraft buys on this particular crossing is not comfort and not speed for its own sake. It is the difference between an afternoon that happens and one that gets moved to another weekend. The cabin holds your party and nobody else on jets in the fleet of this size, and the rest of our private jet routes from Miami run on the same principle.
Private Jet to Miami from Gun Cay: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Gun Cay
Nothing about this day is published anywhere, which means there is nothing to fit yourself around. You name the hour first and the rest is built behind it. What you set is the departure, the moment you want your feet on the sand and the field that saves your party the longest drive. None of the three is anybody else's decision, and changing one of them a week out costs a message. Where north is the easier road, the identical day leaves from Fort Lauderdale instead. Half an hour before wheels up covers the whole of what other people call check-in. Car to steps, luggage in front of you rather than on a belt somewhere, and a passenger list with nobody on it you did not invite. The boat south is tied to the aircraft rather than to a published departure, so a flight that leaves an hour later strands nobody on the Bimini dock. There is one hour on this route that is not ours to move, and that is the water over the flats at the north end: we read the tide for your date before the boarding time is fixed, which is the whole reason a departure you control is worth having.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Gun Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Gun Cay crossing
An afternoon here crosses an international border on the way out and again on the way back. Left to the passenger, that paperwork is where a short day turns long. It comes down to three submissions, one leaving Florida, one arriving at a staffed port, one on the way home. None of them reaches you. The convenient part is that the field the aircraft lands on is itself a port of entry, so the formalities and the flight share one stop and the run south afterwards is domestic. Gun Cay is uninhabited and keeps no desk of any kind, which is the real reason the route goes via Bimini. Every passenger carries a passport, infants and children no exception, and the travel documents guidance lists what else each name needs; what is allowed in the hold is set out under baggage guidance. The US field you return through is named in the quote, and a day the weather moves falls under the weather and delays policy. Guest lists move, and that is not your problem either: we submit the amended one.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Gun Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Gun Cay
A private jet from Miami to Gun Cay is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, an anniversary, a weekend away with the people who matter. An island with nobody on it, a lighthouse at one end and stingrays in knee deep water at the other is a rare amount of quiet to reach inside a morning. Plenty fly over for the day and sleep in Florida that night. Others take a room on Bimini and run south again the following morning, or break the trip home at one of the cays further down the bank. Neither version needs a second booking, and however large the group is, it travels on one. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you, because none of it exists on the cay. A date that has to look like something is also a date that cannot afford to move, and on an island with nowhere to wait that is the other half of what this aircraft buys you. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Gun Cay is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Gun Cay: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Gun Cay?
Roughly fifty nautical miles separate the city from this cay, and a jet covers that quickly. The exact block time belongs in your quote rather than on a web page, because it moves with the type and with the airport you start from.
What matters more is the proportion: the flying is a small slice of the day, and everything left over is spent on the sand.
Can a private jet land on Gun Cay?
It cannot, and neither can anything else on wheels. The cay is uninhabited, about a mile of sand and rock with a lighthouse on it and no strip anywhere. The aircraft therefore stops at South Bimini, nine miles north, and a boat finishes the journey south. You book one thing, not two, and all of it is settled in Florida.
How do we get from South Bimini down to the cay?
By boat, nine miles south along the chain. It 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. The same boat stays with your party on the sand instead of dropping you and leaving.
Why charter a jet to a cay it cannot land on?
Because the fifty 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 that is what pushes trips on this crossing into tomorrow.
An aircraft with the performance to climb out of the layer simply goes over the top of it. On this particular cay that is worth more than usual, because there is nothing standing on the sand to absorb a late arrival: the hour you land is the day you get.
What is actually on Gun Cay once we get there?
The shallow bay at the north end is why most parties come. Southern stingrays work those flats and come to people in knee deep water, with nurse sharks, conch and starfish on the same sand.
The lighthouse stands at the south end, fringing reef runs the seaward side close enough in places to swim to, and the cut between this cay and North Cat Cay is one of the main gates onto the Great Bahama Bank. Say which of those is the point of the trip and the boat is loaded for it.
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 actually staying and the airport is picked around that rather than the other way round.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Within daylight and the crew's duty limits, the hour is yours, and on this route one part of the day is not. The water over the flats at the north end rises and falls on its own schedule, so we read the tide for your date and build the boarding time around it.
Everything else moves when you do: the aircraft has nowhere else to be, and the boat waiting on Bimini is tied to your arrival rather than to a printed timetable.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. The list of passengers is the list you give us and it ends there. Nothing is allocated, nobody is seated beside you who was not invited, and the aircraft does not leave while part of the party is still in the car park.
People can join or drop off the list late as well: that is a fresh filing at our end and a message at yours.
Do I need a passport for Gun Cay?
Everyone needs one, children included. You are entering a different country no matter what you fly in on. The details are taken from you once, at the enquiry, and lodged for both legs ahead of the flight.
Clearance happens as you land at South Bimini, so the run down to the cay afterwards is an internal journey. Our travel documents page has the full list of what each name has to supply.
Can we do it as a day trip?
That is how nearly everybody does it, because nobody sleeps on this cay. The flying is short and the boat leg is short, and since the return hour stays open while you are still on the sand you are not counting backwards from a last departure. Parties who want longer take a room on Bimini and run south again the following morning.
What if the weather turns on the day?
This is the aircraft least bothered by it of anything that flies the crossing, which is most of the argument for taking one. It works above the layer that grounds the rest, and the paved field at South Bimini stays usable in wind that shuts a short strip.
Should a date still have to move, we tell you the moment we know, and because the aircraft was held for your party alone that is a discussion rather than a hunt for the next available seat. On a rough afternoon it is the boat leg that gets rearranged, not the flight.
Is there anywhere to buy food or water on Gun Cay?
There is nothing at all: no shop, no bar, no shade that anybody built and no fresh water. Whatever the afternoon needs goes on the aircraft with you, which is the opposite of how most island days work and the reason catering matters more on this route than on others.
We put the cold box, the shade and the water on the boat as a matter of course, and anything beyond that is worth naming when you send the date.
How many people fit?
It depends on which aircraft and on how much the party is carrying, so the honest answer arrives with the quote rather than before it.
Tell us the number of guests and roughly what luggage there is, and you will see what is free on your date, what each type carries and what each one costs. Because you pay for the aircraft rather than per seat, the cost per person falls the larger the group gets.
How do we start?
Write with the date, how many of you there are, whichever airport is closest to where the morning starts and the hour you want to leave. Mention too whether the day is about the stingrays at the north end or the reef on the seaward side, because the boat is loaded differently for each.
What comes back is availability, a price, a boarding time and an itemised list of what is in it. Nothing is reserved until you say the word.
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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