The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Little Palm Island
Little Palm Island is five acres in Newfound Harbor, off Little Torch Key. Thirty thatched suites, no road onto it and no car on it. Every arrival is over water, on the resort's own launch, so the hour you reach the shore station starts the day. A jet climbs above the layer that keeps the other aircraft down, roughly 95 nautical miles at one altitude. The alternative is three hours of the Overseas Highway, one lane each way, before the launch casts off.
The island has nothing to land on, so the aircraft sets down at Marathon, twenty three miles up the chain. From the apron it is a car south to the shore station at mile marker 28.5, then the launch across the harbour, both booked with the flight.
Everything between is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and crew, the handling and the car at Marathon. Your party brings a bag and photo identification. The same island is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter. It has its own destination page, and so does the chain around it.
Plan Your Little Palm Island Charter
Miami to Little Palm Island Private Jet
How a Private Jet Little Palm Island from Miami Flight Actually Works
Getting to an island with no road is a chain of three parts, and a charter is worth what it takes off your hands. Here is what every flight includes, from the hour you name to the launch across the harbour.
Plan Your Little Palm Island CharterDistance and Flight Level
Ninety Five Miles of Water, Flown Above the Cloud
The island lies about 95 nautical miles from Downtown Miami and almost all of that is open water. Summer afternoons build cloud over it; a jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude across, so the arrival hour you built the day around is still the arrival hour when you land.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party, One Cabin, and Nobody Added to It
One party in the cabin, nobody added to it, and a departure at the hour you give us. Who sits where and what comes along is agreed beforehand rather than sorted out at the ramp, and a change of names in the week before does not touch the booking.
The Runway It Needs
Marathon's Asphalt, the Highway and the Launch
Five acres of sand and thatch carry no strip, so the jet lands at Marathon, the field that serves the middle of the chain. From there it is about twenty three miles south on the Overseas Highway to the shore station at mile marker 28.5, and the resort launch does the last fifteen minutes over the water.
The Road You Fly Over
The Three Hours You Do Not Drive to Little Palm Island
Reaching that shore station by car from the city is about three hours on a clear run, on a highway with one lane each way and no way around anything standing in it. Miss the launch you were booked on and the day behind it moves too. From altitude the whole of that road goes by underneath.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations and a Table on Little Palm Island
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, the launch and a table held for the evening are set before you leave, with ground transport priced beside the aircraft.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip, Overnight, or a Weekend on Little Palm Island
The crossing takes a fraction of the day, so lunch on the sand and home the same evening is a real option here. Most parties stay, because the dining room is half the reason to come, or carry on to Key West: the aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet to Miami from Little Palm Island
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 Little Palm Island
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Little Palm Island 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 the resort has already given you a launch time: the boat sets the hour worth landing at.
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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. The price is for the aircraft and not for heads, so four of you on a given airframe pay what eight would pay on the same 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 at Marathon for the run down to mile marker 28.5, ground transport at the far end of the crossing.
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 Little Palm Island Puts You Down
Little Palm Island is a resort on five acres with no road onto it and no cars on it, reached by tender from the Lower Keys. Looe Key lies four miles south, Bahia Honda a few keys east, the backcountry flats behind. The jet lands at Marathon.
Plan Your Little Palm Island CharterThe Island and Its Dock
Where the Launch Puts You
Five acres, thirty thatched bungalow suites and never more than sixty guests at once. No road onto the island and no car on it, so the arrival is a dock and a short walk in sand rather than a car park. The launch is the only way across and the resort runs it from the shore station on the highway, about fifteen minutes each way. A party that would rather be met by a boat of its own than by the house one books a yacht transfer, and the car that brings you down from the apron is ground transport priced beside the aircraft. One thing is worth settling before the date is set: the resort runs an adults-only policy with a minimum age of 18. It is published on its own site and it is enforced, so a party travelling with children spends the day somewhere else in these keys.
Looe Key Reef
Four Miles South
The reef is why parties come this far down the chain instead of stopping somewhere closer to Miami. Looe Key lies about four nautical miles south of the harbour, part of the third largest barrier reef system in North America and inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In the water that means coral spurs standing in fifteen to thirty feet with sand valleys between them, more than fifty species of coral and over a hundred and fifty species of fish. It is shallow enough that snorkellers and divers are looking at the same thing from different depths. The reef is worked from a boat rather than from the aircraft, and those boats leave on their own hour. That is the clearest argument on this page for flying something that arrives when it said it would. Two things are worth naming with the date: how many of you are going in the water, and whether anybody is on tanks rather than a mask, because that is often a different boat.
Newfound Harbor and the Shallows
Shin Deep
The water the island sits in is an aquatic preserve, which is why it looks the way it does: pale sand, turtle grass and channels a tender can read. Nothing about it is open ocean. That is what makes an afternoon here easy to put together. A beach picnic goes on the sand, a dock pickup takes minutes rather than an hour, and water toys make sense in water this flat. Low tide sets the hour for the banks rather than the one anybody would pick, and it is worth naming with the date.
Bahia Honda and the Old Bridge
A Short Run East
A few keys east of the harbour, Bahia Honda carries the beach the Lower Keys are known for and the broken span of the old Flagler railroad bridge standing beside the modern one. It is a state park, so the beach is public and the water on the ocean side shelves gently. Parties who want an hour off the island without a reef trip usually end up here, and it works better as a stop on the way in from Marathon than as a day of its own: the drive down passes it anyway.
Big Pine Key and the Key Deer
On the Next Key
Big Pine Key sits immediately east of Little Torch Key and carries the National Key Deer Refuge. The deer are a subspecies that lives in the Lower Keys and nowhere else, and they are small enough that the first sighting is usually taken for a large dog. Pine rockland and freshwater holes rather than beach, which makes it the odd hour on a trip otherwise spent in the water, and the one part of the day that happens on land. The Big Pine Key destination page sets it out, and anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests.
The Backcountry Flats
Fishing Days
North of the island the water turns into backcountry: miles of flats, mangrove islands and channels that only shallow boats reach. Bonefish, permit and tarpon live in there, and that is the reason this stretch of the Lower Keys has the name it has. Parties who come for that book bonefishing and flats access, and they book it for the morning rather than the afternoon because the light and the tide both run out early. Rods and gear travel within the payload for the day and are weighed with the party rather than counted against a rule.
Dinner and the Long Evening
Overnight Only
The island keeps a dining room, and it is the reason a good number of these flights are overnight rather than day trips. A table there is worth an evening, and an evening cannot end with a crossing back to a car and a three hour drive. So dinner on the island usually means staying the night. Parties who want the table without the night fly a fly and dine day somewhere the aircraft can wait into the evening instead. If the night is the point, catering and a private chef on the way out are how the day starts rather than ends.
Onward to Key West and the Dry Tortugas
Same Aircraft
A private jet charter from Miami to Little Palm Island also works as one leg rather than the whole day. The aircraft is on the ground at Marathon, which is the middle of the chain, so Key West, the Dry Tortugas and Islamorada are all the same airframe on the same day. That is what turns one island into island hopping or a wider scenic flight down the chain, and the rest of it is set out across the Florida Keys jet routes. An overnight changes the baggage rather than the route. Freight moves the same way on island logistics. The Little Palm Island destination page sets out the island itself, and the Little Palm Island getaway is the same hours put together as one booking. Anything else goes to custom requests.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Little Palm Island?
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 Little Palm Island 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 Little Palm Island: Newfound Harbor, Marathon's Field and the Weather Above Both
Everything above is the day. What follows is what sits behind it: why the weather counts for less on this aircraft than on the other four, how late in the week the hour can still be moved, what is already arranged by the time you walk to the aircraft, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight down the Keys.
Private Jet Little Palm Island from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Little Palm Island
The crossing is not dead time between two airports, and on this route it is rarely the part that goes wrong. The weather is. Afternoons over the Lower Keys build cloud and squalls, and that is what moves days down here. A light aircraft flies underneath it or not at all. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude across, so an afternoon that would delay everything else is usually a non-event. On this island that counts double. Little Palm Island lies five acres off Little Torch Key at mile marker 28.5, about 95 nautical miles from Downtown Miami, and there is no bridge to it. The last stretch is a boat, and the launch runs to its own timetable. A morning that slips does not start the holiday late, it puts you on a later crossing. The hour held is the hour 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 Little Palm Island: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Little Palm Island
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 dock at Little Torch Key and which airport suits your morning. The aircraft is yours for the day, so all three are your decision. If the drive is shorter the other way, the same day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. The clock that does not move is the launch. It is the only way onto the island, the resort runs it from the shore station at mile marker 28.5, and the crossing takes about fifteen minutes. That is the appointment the flight is built backwards from, which is why the arrival hour matters more here than the departure hour. Half an hour before the lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, and the list for that flight carries your names and nobody else's. The return moves the same way: a later flight home is a message rather than a rebooking.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Little Palm Island: Nothing to File, Nothing to Carry
No paperwork and no check-in desk on a Little Palm Island charter
A private jet from Miami to Little Palm Island stays inside Florida, so there is nothing in the day for anybody to file. What it does have is a last leg in two parts, worth knowing before you book. The island has no runway, so the aircraft lands at Marathon, the field in the middle of the chain, roughly twenty three miles north of the shore station. A car takes the Overseas Highway south from the apron, and the resort launch does the last fifteen minutes across the harbour. Set against about three hours of driving from the city, that is what is left of the journey. Everything around it is settled once, when you confirm: the hour, the handling at both ends, the fuel, the car and the names the launch expects. Your party gets a boarding time and an address, and nothing else to track. 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 before the flight is a message to us.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Little Palm Island: Milestone Days and Florida Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Little Palm Island
A private jet from Miami to Little Palm Island is booked when the day is worth marking: an anniversary, a proposal, a honeymoon, a weekend with one other person and nobody else. The resort runs an adults-only policy with a minimum age of 18, which is much of why it is quiet and worth knowing before the date is set. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening. Most stay, because the dining room and the long evening are the point of the place, and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same charter, and the whole group travels 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 at Marathon is waiting when the door opens. A date that has to look like something cannot afford to move, and that is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Little Palm Island is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Little Palm Island: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Little Palm Island?
The island lies about 95 nautical miles from the city, almost all of it water. That is a short leg on a jet, and the block time for the aircraft you end up with comes back with the quote instead of standing on a web page.
What matters more on this route is what happens after it: the drive down to mile marker 28.5 and the fifteen minute launch, against about three hours on the highway if you drive the whole way.
Can a private jet land on Little Palm Island?
No, and nothing on wheels can. The island is five acres of sand and thatch with no road and no strip on it, so the aircraft lands at Marathon, roughly twenty three miles north up the chain.
A car runs south on the Overseas Highway to the shore station at mile marker 28.5 and the resort launch makes the crossing in about fifteen minutes. Both are booked with the flight rather than found on arrival.
Why take a jet down here rather than something smaller?
The weather and the connection. Afternoons over the Lower Keys build cloud and squalls, and that is what moves days on this route. A light aircraft flies underneath it, around it or not at all. A jet climbs above the layer and holds one altitude across.
Because the only way onto the island is a boat that runs to its own times, an afternoon lost to weather is not a later start, it is a later crossing and a shorter first day.
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.
How do we get from the airport to the island?
In two parts. By road it is about twenty three miles south on the Overseas Highway from Marathon to the shore station at mile marker 28.5, in a car arranged with the flight rather than found outside the terminal.
Then the resort launch, about fifteen minutes across Newfound Harbor. Give us the launch time the resort has offered you and the departure is built backwards from it.
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 clock that does not move on this route is the launch across the harbour, because it is the only way onto the island, so we build the departure backwards from the crossing you are booked on rather than from a schedule of ours.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else, so there is no seat to be assigned and no second party in the cabin. It also means the aircraft does not leave without part of your group. Who is on the list stays open until shortly before the flight, and changing it is a message to us and nothing more.
What is there to do on Little Palm Island once we get there?
Looe Key reef about four nautical miles south, the shallows of Newfound Harbor straight off the sand, the backcountry flats to the north, the Key deer refuge on Big Pine Key one island east, and Bahia Honda and the old Flagler bridge a few keys beyond that.
The island itself is thirty suites, a dining room and no cars. The destination page sets all of it out; say which of them the day is built around when you send the dates.
Can we bring children?
Not to this island. The resort runs an adults-only policy with a minimum age of 18. It is published on its own site and it is enforced, and it is a large part of why the place is as quiet as it is.
A party travelling with children flies the same aircraft to the same chain and spends the day somewhere in the Keys that takes them, and we will say where when you tell us who is coming.
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 and the return hour stays movable while you are still on the island. Most parties still stay the night, because the dining room and the evening are half the reason to come and neither of them fits inside a day.
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 Florida weather is usually a non-event.
When it is not, we would rather rebook a flight than fly it badly, and you hear it from us as early as we know. The resort is told at the same time, so the launch and the table move with the flight instead of being lost.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, which airport suits your morning and the hour you would like. You get back what is free, what it costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
If the resort has already given you a launch time or a table, say so at the same time and the flight is built around it.
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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