Private Jet from Miami to Mangrove Cay

Mangrove Cay sits roughly a hundred and eighty eight statute miles east of Miami, about a hundred and sixty three nautical, in the middle of Andros.

On a jet that is one short 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 a border stop on the way in, and that is built into the routing you get back.

Because the ordinary way is three moves and a wait. Nothing scheduled runs from Florida to the middle of Andros, so the alternative is a flight into Nassau, a connection onto the island and a ferry or a road at the end of it.

A charter is one leg onto the cay. The other half of the answer is the sky: the water in between builds cloud through the afternoon, and a jet climbs through that layer instead of waiting underneath it.

Yes. Clarence A. Bain is a paved five thousand foot strip a short drive from the settlements, which is why a jet comes onto the cay directly rather than putting you down at the north end of Andros with an hour of road and a bight in the way. The walk from the aircraft to the water is short enough to do in one go.

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 on the cay is not one.

Andros carries three of them, San Andros, Fresh Creek and Congo Town, so the desk sits on the same island rather than a detour off it.

Fresh Creek is about twenty five miles up the coast and is the one on the line from Miami; Congo Town is about ten miles the other way. 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.

Miami spreads its business traffic over several fields rather than one, so the right field is simply the one with the least driving between your morning and the aircraft. An hour lost in traffic is an hour off the cay at the other end, and on flats where the tide decides when the skiffs go out that hour is worth something.

The same field question decides the way home: a flight back from the central Bahamas clears US customs where there is a federal inspection station. Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach carry their own pages.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Since nothing scheduled serves the middle of Andros, there is no timetable to work around in the first place. The hour is fixed at confirmation, and shifting it afterwards costs a message and not a rebooking.

Nothing else is on the aircraft's day and nobody else is in the cabin to be put out. The hour home works the same way, which is what lets a fishing week end on the right tide.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. No seat assignments, no strangers in the cabin, and no departure while part of your group is still parking. The list is not locked either. A name added or dropped near the date is paperwork at our end, never a rebooking at yours.

Yes, for every passenger including children. Flying privately does not make the Bahamas any less of a border. We collect the details once, with the enquiry, and file them for both countries ahead of the date. Who hands over what, and at which point, is set out on the travel documents page.

About thirty minutes. Nothing at the Miami end resembles a terminal. You park and walk out to the aircraft. The outbound filing left our side long before that, so nothing needs printing and nothing needs handing to anybody.

Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and that is most of the reason to take this aircraft. The Stream builds cloud from late morning and a jet works above the layer that keeps the rest of the fleet low or 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 onto a cay that has none.

Yes, up to the payload the aircraft carries that day. It belongs in the enquiry, though, and not in a conversation at the ramp.

Most parties here come for the bonefish in the bights or for the reef and the blue holes, so rods, wading boots and tanks are the usual cargo on this route. Put it on the list beside the headcount and it is priced into what comes back.

Tell us the date, how many are travelling, the field that suits your morning and the hour you want to be off the ground. You get back the aircraft that is free, the figure, the boarding time, the routing with the customs landing written into it, and the list of what is covered.

Nothing is reserved until you say so. If the days have anything else in them, a guide and a skiff, a boat for the ocean holes or a table on the road, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.

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.