The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Hawks Nest
Hawks Nest sits on the south west tip of Cat Island, three hundred and thirteen miles from Florida. The point carries a marina, a creek and a paved strip at sea level, and past that there is very little: a hundred and fifty square miles of island with around sixteen hundred people spread along it. That emptiness is the reason people come and the reason the ordinary way down is slow. There is no direct service to this end of the island from anywhere.
A jet closes the gap in one move. It goes over the weather rather than under it, which across the Stream in the afternoon is the difference between a date and a hope, and it puts down on the point itself rather than at the far end of the island. The hour you land is the hour the trip starts, with the flats, the sound and the beaches all still in front of you.
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 strip at the point is paved, which is why a jet comes here directly instead of dropping you up the island. The same point is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each of those is a different day.
Plan Your Hawks Nest Charter
Miami to Hawks Nest Private Jet
How a Private Jet Hawks Nest from Miami Flight Actually Works
Two things decide whether a day at the point happens: the sky over the Stream and the border. Here is what every crossing includes, from the hour you name to the desk on the way in.
Plan Your Hawks Nest CharterDistance and Flight Level
Three Hundred Miles of Stream, Flown High
Cat Island lies three hundred and thirteen miles out, and the water in between builds cloud through the afternoon. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude the whole way rather than picking a path around it. That is what lets a date on this island be fixed weeks out instead of watched on the morning.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party, One Cabin, and Nobody Added to It
The cabin carries your party and nobody else. Nothing scheduled comes to this end of the island at all, so a charter is not the faster version of an existing flight, it is the only one. Your date stops depending on anybody else's timetable, and the seating, the catering and the hour are agreed before the day.
The Runway at the Point
A Paved Strip on the Point Itself
A jet needs a paved runway and the point has one, which is why you land where you are staying rather than up the island. The alternative on Cat Island is the field in the middle and an hour on the road afterwards. Here the walk from the aircraft to the water is short enough to do in one go.
Both Borders
Passports, Manifest, and the Desk on the Island
A Bahamas flight must make its first landing at an airport of entry, and the strip at the point is not one.
The island carries two of them further up the coast, so the desk sits on the same island rather than on a detour off it. The crew does the talking, we take the passport details once and the travel documents go in from our side.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations, and What Travels to Hawks Nest
Chef catering, a cake for a milestone, rods and a cooler for the flats: what comes aboard is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. Ashore the same applies, because a vehicle, a guide and a dive boat are arranged in advance on an island with almost no traffic on it.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip to Multi-Day Hawks Nest Itinerary
Most parties stay, because the fishing and the diving here are both worth more than an afternoon, and a week is the usual shape. The aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs, and Great Exuma is forty one miles west across the sound if you want both ends of it.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet to Miami from Hawks Nest
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 Hawks Nest
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Hawks Nest 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, and say whether anyone is fishing or diving: rods and tanks come into the payload conversation early rather than late.
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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.
What you are pricing is the airframe and not the headcount, so four people on the same aircraft cost what eight do. The border stop up the island is part of the routing we send back, not a surprise on the day.
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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 guide and a skiff for the flats, a dive boat if the party is certified, ground transport to wherever 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 before the day.
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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 Hawks Nest Puts You Down
Cat Island is a hundred and fifty square miles with around sixteen hundred people on it, and Hawks Nest sits at the quiet south west end of that. Fishing, diving and empty sand are what parties come for, and all three are within a short run of the point.
What follows is what parties actually do with the hours in between, in the order they ask for it.
Plan Your Hawks Nest CharterThe Flats and the Bonefish
Most Asked For
Fishing is why most of these flights happen. The flats behind Cat Island run strongest at the two ends of it, and the point is one of the addresses anglers name when they talk about bonefish here. The booked version is bonefishing and flats access, and rods and wading gear travel within the payload for the aircraft that day. Say how many are fishing and whether it is fly or spin when you send the date. A guide and a skiff are booked around the tide rather than around the flight, so the hour you arrive and the hour the water is right are two separate questions. On a jet the first one is yours, which is what lets both of them land on the same day.
Exuma Sound and the Offshore Grounds
Tuna and Dorado
Offshore is the other half of it. Exuma Sound falls away deep just west of the point, so blue water is minutes from the dock rather than an hour out of a harbour. The current running between Cat Island and Long Island is the piece of water the boats work, and tuna and dorado are what comes out of it. That is a different boat from a flats skiff and a different kind of day, so it is worth naming which one you are after when you send the date rather than after it.
The Wall and the Deep Drop
Diving Days
Diving here is wall diving rather than reef pottering. The drop starts around thirty metres and falls past a hundred, which is a serious day out and not the shallow snorkelling of the islands closer to Florida. That changes what the party brings and what the operator needs to know. Certification levels and how many are diving rather than swimming both belong in the enquiry, because a dive boat and a snorkel boat are not always the same boat and tanks come out of the same payload the passengers do, per the baggage guidance.
Mount Alvernia and The Hermitage
The One Climb
The one thing on this island everybody climbs is Mount Alvernia, the highest point in the Bahamas at sixty three metres, a little over two hundred feet. It is a modest hill anywhere else and the roof of the country here. A stone stair runs up it to The Hermitage, a miniature monastery built in 1939 by Father Jerome, with the Stations of the Cross carved into the rock on the way. It stands above New Bight, about an hour up the island from the point, and it is the photograph people come home with. Getting there is a vehicle rather than a walk, so ground transport is worth arranging with the flight. There is very little of it on the island and the distances between settlements are real.
The Beaches at the Point
Nobody On Them
The beaches are the rest of it, and they are empty in a way that takes some getting used to. With sixteen hundred people spread along an island this long, an afternoon on the sand usually means an afternoon alone on it. A beach picnic goes wherever the tide suits, and it makes sense here precisely because there is nothing on the sand and nothing to walk to. It is arranged with the flight rather than found when you arrive, and so is catering if the day runs into the evening.
The Marina and the Creek
Boats Meet Here
The point carries a marina with a creek behind it, which is the reason crews and owners use this end of the island at all. Boats working the sound come in here rather than running up the coast. If a yacht is meeting you, the timing is the easy part on this aircraft: you set the arrival hour and the boat is told it once. That is a yacht transfer, and the coordinates or the berth go in with the enquiry. It also works the other way round. Parties already aboard fly in to join a boat that has come across ahead of them, which is the one case where the aircraft is the short leg of the trip rather than the long one.
New Bight and the Settlements
Up the Island
Cat Island is strung thinly rather than clustered. Port Howe and Old Bight lie east of the point, New Bight and Smith's Bay sit in the middle, Bennett's Harbour and Arthur's Town are at the north end, and Arthur's Town is the capital. Two of those carry a border desk, which is why the stop on the way in happens on this island rather than off it. The full island guide sits on the Cat Island page, and the crossing to the port of entry end of it is Miami to Cat Island by jet. Anything you want on the ground is worth naming in advance rather than looked for on arrival. A table, a vehicle, a guide: there is not much of any of it, and what there is gets booked by the people who asked first.
Onward Across the Sound
Same Aircraft
A private jet charter from Miami to Hawks Nest also works as one stop rather than the whole day. Great Exuma lies about forty one nautical miles west across the sound, so Exuma, Long Island and San Salvador are all reachable in the same afternoon. That is what turns one point into island hopping or a wider Bahamas day by air. Staying overnight changes the baggage rather than the route, and the rest of the chain is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Hawks Nest?
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 Hawks Nest 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 Hawks Nest: The Weather Below You, the Border Stop and Hawks Nest Point
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 on the way in, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Hawks Nest from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Hawks Nest
Getting to the south west tip of Cat Island is not hard because of the distance. It is hard because of what the afternoon does to the water in between, and because nothing scheduled comes here. The Gulf Stream builds cloud from late morning and the bank builds more of it further down, so three hundred miles of sky is a great deal to have to fly around. An aircraft that stays low goes underneath that or waits for it. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude the whole way, which is why a week here can be booked a month out and still start on the day it says. The other half is where you land. The field in the middle of the island puts an hour of road between you and the point; the paved strip at the point does not. The hours saved are hours on the water, 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 Hawks Nest: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Hawks Nest
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name, and on this island there is no timetable to hand out in the first place. Nothing scheduled serves the south west end of Cat Island, so every arrival here is somebody's own aircraft. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be standing at the point and which airport in the city suits your morning. 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. Thirty minutes at the Miami end is the whole of the check-in. There is no counter to find and no boarding group to wait for: the bags go on in front of you and the aircraft goes when your party is aboard. The hour home moves on the same terms. Tides decide when the skiffs go out here and when a boat can sit over the drop, so a trip that ends on the right water rather than on a printed date is the normal shape of this one. First light out and after dinner back are the same booking.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Hawks Nest: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Hawks Nest crossing
A private jet from Miami to Hawks Nest crosses an international border twice in a day, and both crossings are filed in advance. The crew files all three: the inbound declaration out of Florida, the clearance on arrival and the US return. The strip at the point carries neither customs nor immigration, so the first landing is made where the desk is. On Cat Island that is New Bight or Arthur's Town, up the same island rather than a detour off it, and which one depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. A change to the party is a refiling on our side.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Hawks Nest: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A long weekend, a fishing week or something to celebrate at Hawks Nest
A private jet from Miami to Hawks Nest is booked for the week that has to happen: a fishing trip planned a year out, a proposal, a birthday on a beach with nobody else on it, a group that wants one end of an island to itself. Three hundred miles is far enough that the aircraft decides whether the date survives the journey. Some come for the flats and the wall and stay a week. Others fly down for a long weekend and are back when they said they would be. Both are the same charter, and nobody in the group travels separately. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. At a point with one marina and no shops, that is how the evening happens at all. All of it is aboard before you leave Miami. A date built around an occasion has the least room to slip, which is the other reason it goes on this aircraft. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Hawks Nest is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Hawks Nest: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Hawks Nest?
Hawks Nest sits three hundred and thirteen miles from Florida on the south west tip of Cat Island. On a jet that is one leg rather than a connection through Nassau, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.
There is also a border stop on the way in, and that is built into the routing you get back.
Why take a jet to Hawks Nest rather than fly down the ordinary way?
Because there is no ordinary way to this end of the island. Nothing scheduled comes to the point at all, so the alternative is a flight into Nassau, a connection to the field in the middle of Cat Island and an hour on the road afterwards.
A charter is one leg to the strip at the point. The other half is the weather: over three hundred miles of open water there is a lot of sky to have to fly around, and a jet climbs above the layer instead.
Can a private jet land at Hawks Nest?
Yes. The strip at the point is paved, which is why a jet comes here directly instead of dropping you further up the island. You land where you are staying rather than an hour away from it, and the walk from the aircraft to the water is short enough to do in one go.
Do we clear customs at Hawks Nest?
No, and this is the one thing worth knowing before you plan the day. A Bahamas flight has to make its first landing in the country at a port of entry, and the strip at the point is not one.
On Cat Island the desk is at New Bight or Arthur's Town, so it is on the same island rather than a detour off it, and which one your flight uses depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. It comes back with the quote, and the crew does the talking there. It is part of the way in rather than an interruption.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
There is no one business airport in Miami, there are several, and the right one is whichever puts the least driving between your morning and the aircraft. An hour lost in traffic is an hour off the point at the other end, and on an island where the light decides when the boats go out that hour is worth something.
The same field question decides the return: a flight home from the central Bahamas clears US customs where there is a federal inspection station. The same goes for Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and both carry their own pages.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Since nothing scheduled serves this end of the island, there is no timetable to work around in the first place.
You fix the hour when you confirm, and moving it later is a message rather than a rebooking: the aircraft has nowhere else to be that day and nobody else aboard to inconvenience. The hour home works the same way, which is what lets a fishing week end on the right water.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. Nothing is assigned, nobody shares the cabin, and the aircraft does not go while half your group is still in the car park. The list can change close to the day as well: adding or dropping a name is paperwork on our side and not a rebooking on yours.
Do I need a passport for Hawks Nest?
Yes, for every passenger including children. A jet does not make the Bahamas any less of a different country. The passport details are taken once at the enquiry and filed for both sides before you go, and the travel documents page sets out what each passenger hands over and when.
How early do we need to be there?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to walk through at the Miami end. You park, you walk out to the aircraft, and the outbound filing went in from our side well before you got there, so there is nothing to print and nothing to hand over.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and over three hundred miles of open water that is the point of the aircraft. A jet works above the layer that keeps the rest of the fleet on the ground.
When the weather is bad enough to matter anyway, 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 wait for the next flight in, which to this end of the island is nobody's.
Can we bring fishing rods and dive gear on the jet?
Yes, inside the payload the aircraft has that day, and the place to say it is the enquiry rather than the ramp.
Most parties here come for the flats at either end of the island or for the wall off the point, so rods, wading gear and tanks are the usual cargo on this route. List what is coming along with the headcount and it goes into the figures you get back.
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 border stop in it and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word.
If the days have anything else in them, a guide for the flats, a dive boat or a table somewhere, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
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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