The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Key West
Key West is the far end of a chain that takes most of a day to drive, and almost nothing there runs on a clock we can move. The sun sets over the harbour when it sets, the boat into the backcountry leaves when it was booked, the flats appear at low water.
An afternoon of weather is then not a later start, it is half the day you came for. A light aircraft flies under that layer, around it or not at all. A jet climbs through and holds one altitude. The island lies about 112 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 129 statute, almost all of it water. By road it is 113 miles of Overseas Highway, forty two bridges and three and a half to four hours.
The whole chain has two runways a jet can use, and Key West has the far one, so the aircraft lands on the island rather than up at Marathon. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and crew, the handling and the car at the door. The same island is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, each a different day. It has its own destination page, and so does the chain above it.
Plan Your Key West Charter
Miami to Key West Private Jet
How a Private Jet Key West from Miami Flight Actually Works
A jet is the fast way down the chain, and speed on its own is not what parties book it for. Here is what every flight includes, from the hour you name to your arrival on the island.
Plan Your Key West CharterDistance and Flight Level
A Hundred and Twelve Miles, Flown Above the Weather
Key West lies about 112 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 129 statute, and almost all of it is open water. Summer afternoons build cloud along that line and winter fronts run across it. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude, so the hour you were booked for is still the hour you arrive.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party in the Cabin and Nobody Added to It
The cabin carries your party and nobody else, and it leaves on the hour you name. Seating and baggage are settled before the day rather than at the ramp, and a name can still change the week before without changing the flight.
The Runway It Needs
Key West's Own Asphalt, Not Marathon's
Key West has a paved runway long enough for the aircraft, which in this chain is unusual: there are two of them in the whole of the Keys. So the jet sets down on the island rather than at Marathon with an hour of road still to go, and Old Town is a few minutes from the apron.
The Road You Fly Over
A Hundred and Thirteen Miles and Forty Two Bridges
The alternative is the Overseas Highway: 113 miles from the mainland over forty two bridges, one lane each way for most of it, three and a half to four hours when nothing goes wrong. There is no second route to take when something does. From altitude the whole of it goes by while the coffee is still warm.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations and What Waits at Key West
Chef catering, champagne for a milestone, a cake that arrives with you rather than ordered at the far end: what comes aboard is agreed with the flight. Ashore the car and a table held for the evening are set before you leave, with ground transport priced beside the aircraft.
How Long the Day Runs
A Morning, an Evening, or the Whole Weekend
The crossing takes a fraction of the day, so breakfast in the city and lunch on Duval Street is the ordinary shape of it. Stay for the sunset and fly home after it, or carry on west to the Dry Tortugas: the aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet to Miami from Key West
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.
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 Key West
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Key West 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 if the day is built around something with a fixed time: a boat out into the backcountry, a table booked for the evening, the sunset on the harbour side.
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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, the car waiting on the apron when you land, ground transport into Old Town or out along the island. 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 Key West Puts You Down
Key West sits where the highway runs out and is worth it for the old town alone: Duval, the fort, the lighthouses, Mallory Square at dusk, tarpon on the flats and the Dry Tortugas further west. The jet makes the drive down the Keys unnecessary.
Plan Your Key West CharterOld Town and Duval Street
Most Asked For
Most of what people come for is in the old half of the island and it is a walk rather than a drive. Duval Street runs the width of it from the harbour side to the Atlantic side, with the bars, the galleries and the restaurants strung along it and through the lanes either side. That density is why a single day works here at all. A party that lands in the morning is at a table in the old town shortly afterwards, without a car and without a plan, and the aircraft is the only part of the arrangement that needed one. Guests who want the table booked rather than found take a fly and dine day, and anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests.
The Flats and the Tarpon
Fishing Days
If the day is about fish rather than sightseeing, the water behind the island is the reason people come. The flats hold bonefish and permit, and the tarpon run through the channels in spring. The water is shallow and clear for miles, so the guides here pole rather than motor, and the fishing is sight fishing rather than a day of waiting. This is the part of the island that is hardest to catch up on. A guide leaves on the tide, not on your arrival, which is the whole argument for an aircraft that is not held up by an afternoon. Parties book bonefishing and flats access with the flight, and rods and gear travel within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
The Key West Beaches
A Short Ride
The beaches are the other half of it and they are on the Atlantic side rather than the harbour side. They are calm, shallow and shaded in places, which suits a party with children better than open water does. Nothing here is far enough away to need planning. The island is a few minutes end to end once you are on it, so an afternoon on the sand and an evening in the old town both fit inside the same day. Add water toys if the party wants the afternoon on the water rather than beside it, or a beach picnic if the point is to be somewhere quieter than the public sand.
The Southernmost Point and the Hemingway House
What People Photograph
Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States and it makes a great deal of that. The marker is a painted concrete buoy at the water's edge, and the island behind it is closer to Havana, ninety four miles away, than it is to Miami. The Hemingway house is the other thing every first visit walks to, with the lighthouse standing opposite it across the street. All of it sits inside the same few streets as the harbour, so a first day here is done on foot. That is the part worth knowing when you set the hour: the island asks nothing of your schedule once you are on it, which puts the whole of the planning into when you arrive.
The Backcountry Islands
Boat From Here
North and west of the island the water goes shallow and empty, and the keys out there have no road, no bridge and no dock. They are reached by boat or by air and by nothing else. That is where the empty sand is, and where a day stops looking like a holiday town and starts looking like the pictures. From a jet the way in is the harbour: you land on the island and a boat takes the party out from there. It leaves at the hour it was booked for, which is the argument for landing early rather than hoping. A beach picnic goes out here rather than on the public beach, and a dock pickup puts the party onto the boat instead of onto a rank.
Little Palm Island and the Lower Keys
Up the Chain
Not every day that ends in the lower keys ends in Key West. Little Palm Island is a private resort island with no road to it, reached by boat, and it turns up often enough on a charter out of Miami to be worth naming. The same is true of the quieter keys above it, Big Pine Key and Sugarloaf Key among them, where the Key deer live and the traffic thins out. A jet reaches all of it through one of the two runways in the chain, Key West at this end and Marathon above it, and the last stretch is a car or a boat. Say which of them the night is at and the day is booked once rather than in three parts.
Mallory Square, the Fort and the Lighthouses
The Sunset Side
The harbour side of the island is where the day ends. Mallory Square opens onto the water for the sunset, and Fort Zachary Taylor sits on the point below it with the quietest beach on the island behind its walls. Further out the same line reads as a string of lighthouses on the reef, Sand Key nearest and the others spread east along the chain. This is the one hour of the Key West day that cannot be moved, and it is the reason the departure gets built backwards. A party that wants the sunset and dinner afterwards flies home late rather than early, and the return hour is a message to the crew that morning rather than a rebooking.
Onward to the Dry Tortugas
Seventy Miles West
Key West is the end of the highway and not the end of the chain. The islands carry on west for another seventy miles as sand keys, shoals and reef, and they finish at the Dry Tortugas, where Fort Jefferson stands alone on Garden Key. That leg is normally two parts, the run down and the crossing west, and whether the second is flown or run by boat is answered before it is booked rather than on the day. Everything nearer than that is already under the flight path on the way down, Key Largo, Islamorada and Marathon among them, which is what turns one island into island hopping.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Key West?
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 Key West 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 Key West: Above the Afternoon, Duval Street and the Last Hour of Light
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: why a jet is the aircraft that ignores the afternoon, how late the hour can still move, what is settled before you board, and what a date worth marking looks like at the end of the Florida Keys.
Private Jet Key West from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Key West
The crossing is not dead time between two airports, and on this route it is not usually what goes wrong. The weather is, and what it costs here is not an hour. Almost everything worth coming to Key West for runs on a clock nobody can move. The sun sets over the harbour side when it sets. A boat out into the backcountry leaves at the hour it was booked for. The flats are walkable at low water and gone after it. Miss the middle of the day and you have not arrived late, you have lost the half of it you came for. The boat does not go out a second time, and the sun sets once. A light aircraft flies under the layer, around it or not at all. A jet climbs through it and holds one altitude, so an afternoon that would delay everything else is usually a non-event. The hour saved is the hour you get back, and the cabin carries your party alone on jets in the fleet of this size. Other private jet routes from Miami fly the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Key West: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Key West
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name. You name the hour you lift off, the hour you want to be on the island and which airport suits your morning. The aircraft is yours for the day, so all three are yours to set rather than a departure somebody else chose. If the drive is shorter the other way, the same day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. The clocks that do not move here belong to the island rather than to an office. Sunset on the harbour side happens at one hour and draws a crowd for it, a boat into the backcountry leaves when it was booked, and the flats behind the island are there on the tide and not on request. Those set the hour worth landing at, and the departure is built backwards from them. Half an hour before lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, and the list carries your names and nobody else's. The return hour moves the same way: a later flight home after the sunset is a message rather than a rebooking, and the crew hears it that morning.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Key West: Nothing to File, Nothing to Carry
No paperwork and no check-in desk on a Key West charter
A private jet from Miami to Key West stays inside Florida, so the day has nothing in it for anybody to file. What it does have is a paved runway at the far end of the chain, and that is worth knowing first. There are two runways in the whole of the Keys that take an aircraft this size, and the island has the southern one. So the jet sets down on Key West itself rather than up the chain with an hour of road still to run, and the car meets it on the apron. Old Town is a few minutes from there. Everything around it is settled once, when you confirm: the hour, the handling at both ends, the fuel and the car into town or out along the island. Your party gets a boarding time and an address, and nothing on the day needs a second confirmation from anybody. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. A departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy, and a name added or dropped is a message to us, not a problem for you.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Key West: Milestone Days and Florida Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Key West
A private jet from Miami to Key West is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend at the end of the chain with the people who matter. The crossing is short enough that the occasion, not the travelling, is what the day is about. Some parties fly down for the day and are home the same evening, which on an island this close is the obvious way to use a Saturday. Others stay for the sunset and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same 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, and the car is waiting when the door opens. A date that has to look like something is also a date that cannot afford to wait behind an afternoon, and that is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Key West is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Key West: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Key West?
Key West lies about 112 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 129 statute, and almost all of it is open water. On a jet that is 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 on this route is the comparison on the ground: 113 miles of Overseas Highway over forty two bridges, three and a half to four hours when nothing goes wrong.
Can a private jet land in Key West?
Yes. The island has a paved runway long enough for the aircraft, and in this chain that is unusual: there are two runways in the whole of the Keys that take a jet, and Key West has the southern one.
So the aircraft sets down on the island itself rather than at Marathon with an hour of road still to run. Which aircraft the day uses is set with the quote, because it depends on the size of your party and where you are starting from.
Why take a jet to Key West rather than something smaller?
The weather, and what it costs you here. Summer afternoons build cloud along this line and winter fronts run across it. A light aircraft flies underneath the layer, around it or not at all.
A jet climbs through it and holds one altitude. On most routes that saves an hour; on this one it saves the middle of the day, because the sunset, the boat and the tide all happen whether you are there or not.
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. 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?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you. The clocks that do not move on this route belong to the island rather than to an office: sunset on the harbour side, a boat into the backcountry that leaves when it was booked, the tide on the flats. We build the departure backwards from whichever of those the day is about.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No, and most of these aircraft carry nine passengers, so your whole party travels together on one booking. 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 list can also change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a message to us rather than a rebooking on yours.
What happens if the weather turns on the day?
This is the route where that question is worth asking, and the jet is most of the answer. It climbs above the layer that keeps smaller aircraft on the ground, so an afternoon that stops everything else is usually a non-event.
What a jet cannot do is land in conditions below the minimums at either end. If that happens the flight moves rather than disappears, and it runs under the weather and delays policy rather than being decided on the apron.
Can we do it as a day trip?
Yes, and on a jet it is the easy version rather than the ambitious one. The crossing takes a fraction of the day, the aircraft lands on the island and not an hour up the chain, and Old Town is a few minutes from the apron. Breakfast in the city, lunch on Duval Street and home after the sunset is the ordinary shape of it, and the return hour is yours to move on the day.
What is there to do in Key West once we land?
Old Town and Duval Street, which run the width of the island and are walked rather than driven. The beaches on the Atlantic side, calm and shallow. The flats and the backcountry islands behind it, reached by boat. Mallory Square for the sunset and Fort Zachary Taylor on the point below it. The southernmost marker and the Hemingway house, both inside the same few streets. The Key West destination page sets all of it out.
How do we get from the airport into Old Town?
By car, and it is short. The airport sits at the eastern end of the island and Old Town at the western end, so the drive is a few minutes rather than a second leg.
The car is arranged with the flight rather than found outside a terminal, so it is waiting on the apron when the door opens. Say whether the day starts at a hotel, at the seaport or on the sand and the drop-off goes there.
Can you fly us on to the Dry Tortugas or back up the chain?
The chain does not end at Key West. The islands carry on west for another seventy miles to the Dry Tortugas, where Fort Jefferson stands on Garden Key, and everything nearer than that is under the flight path on the way down. Whether a second leg is flown or run by boat depends on where it goes, and it is answered before it is booked rather than on the day.
Is it better to fly or drive from Miami to Key West?
The drive is 113 miles of Overseas Highway over forty two bridges, one lane each way for most of it, and three and a half to four hours when nothing goes wrong. It is a good drive once.
The case for the aircraft is not that it is faster, it is that the day stops depending on the road and on the afternoon: you land on the island with the hours still in front of you rather than behind you.
Can I bring a pet on a private jet charter?
Usually yes, and it is one of the reasons parties charter rather than fly scheduled. Your dog travels in the cabin with you rather than in a hold. Tell us the size and the number when you send the date, because it affects which aircraft suits and what the crew arranges, and it comes back confirmed with the quote.
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