The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Marathon Florida
Marathon is the middle of the chain, and almost nothing here is walked up to on the day. The offshore boats leave the harbour in the morning. The turtle hospital and the dolphin centre run on booked slots. The flats behind the bridges are there on the tide.
Miss the front half of a day built that way and you have arrived after it, not late. A light aircraft flies under the layer that builds over this water, around it or not at all. A jet climbs through and holds one altitude. Vaca Key lies about 78 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 90 statute, almost all of it water. By road it is around 115 miles of US-1 and a little over two hours when the bridges are clear.
The whole chain has two runways a jet can use, and this is the middle one, so the aircraft stops where the day is. From the departure airport to the car on the apron, every part is booked by us. 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 around it.
Plan Your Marathon Charter
Miami to Marathon Private Jet
How a Private Jet Marathon Florida from Miami Flight Actually Works
A jet is the fast way into the middle of 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 the apron on Vaca Key.
Plan Your Marathon CharterDistance and Flight Level
Seventy Eight Miles of Open Water, One Level
Marathon lies about 78 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 90 statute, and open water for nearly all of it. Cloud stacks over that stretch on a summer afternoon, and a winter front crosses it in a few hours. A jet goes up through that and stays at one level, which is why the slip time you booked is still the slip time you make.
The Whole Aircraft
Your Names on the List and No Others
The list carries the people you give us and stops there, and the aircraft goes when you say it goes. Who sits where and what comes aboard is agreed beforehand instead of sorted out at the ramp, and swapping a name the week before changes nothing else.
The Runway It Needs
The Middle Runway of the Whole Chain
Vaca Key has paved asphalt long enough for the aircraft, which in this chain is unusual: there are two of them in the whole of the Keys. Five other island days in this silo land on this same strip and then drive or take a boat, among them Big Pine Key. Yours ends at the apron.
The Road You Fly Over
A Hundred and Fifteen Miles of One Lane Each Way
The alternative is US-1 down the chain: around 115 miles from the mainland, one lane each way for most of it, a little over two hours when the bridges are clear and open-ended when they are not. There is no second route to take. From altitude the whole of it goes by while the coffee is still warm.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations and What Waits at Marathon
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 boat slip 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 on the Water, or the Whole Weekend
The crossing takes a fraction of the day, so a boat out of the harbour in town at nine and dinner back in the city is an ordinary shape for it. Stay for the evening instead, or carry on down 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 Marathon Florida
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 Marathon Florida
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
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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 what the day is built around: a charter boat with a slip time, a slot at the turtle hospital, a table held for the evening.
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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 to the harbour, the beach or a key either side.
Flowers if the day is a special one. Once you have signed it off and paid, the boarding time, the airport you are leaving from and the full list of what is included come back.
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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.
In the Middle Keys
Where a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Marathon Florida Puts You Down
Marathon sits in the middle of the chain rather than at either end of it: the reef and its lighthouse offshore, the flats and the old railway bridge on the bay side, a protected harbour full of charter boats and a runway in the middle of town. The jet puts you there with the morning still in front of you.
Plan Your Marathon CharterSombrero Reef and the Lighthouse
Most Asked For
The reef lies a few miles off the Atlantic side with an iron lighthouse standing on the edge of it, and it is the single thing most parties come down here to be on top of. The water over it is shallow and clear enough that a mask is the whole of the equipment. Boats run out to it from town in well under an hour, which is why a morning arrival and an afternoon on the reef fit inside one day without anything being rushed. The part that is not flexible is the boat. It leaves the slip at the hour it was taken and the water is worth being on when it is flat, so the flight is built to land before it rather than after. Anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests.
The Flats, the Bridges and the Blue Water
Fishing Days
If the day is about fish rather than sightseeing, this is one of the few places where both kinds of water sit within minutes of each other. The flats on the bay side hold bonefish and permit, the tarpon work the bridge channels, and the deep water off the Atlantic side is a short run out. The shallow water is clear for miles, so the guides here pole rather than motor and the fishing is done by sight rather than by waiting. This is the part of the day that is hardest to catch up on. A guide leaves on the tide, not on your arrival, and the tide is the one thing on this key that answers to nobody. A day of bonefishing and flats access is taken at the same time as the aircraft, and what you want to fish with comes along inside the weight the airframe carries.
Turtles, Dolphins and Crane Point
Out of the Water
Not every day here is spent on a boat. The turtle hospital in town takes visitors through the tanks and the treatment rooms, and the dolphin centre up on Grassy Key runs its own programmes a few minutes north of the runway. Crane Point is the third of them: a hardwood hammock with a trail through it and a small museum at the entrance, on a piece of land that never got built on. All three work on booked times rather than on walk-ins, which is the argument for an aircraft that is not held up by an afternoon. Tell us which slot the day is built around and the departure is set backwards from it.
Pigeon Key and the Old Seven Mile Bridge
A Walk Into 1912
The old railway bridge runs alongside the modern one and stops part way across at a two-acre island that was a work camp for the men who built it. The cottages are still there and so is the village. It is reached from the Marathon end, on foot along the old deck or on the service that runs out to it, and it is the closest thing in the chain to walking into the year the railway opened. The crossing out and back takes most of a half day, and the service runs to a published timetable rather than to your schedule. That is the whole case for landing in the morning instead of the afternoon.
Sombrero Beach and Curry Hammock
A Short Ride
Real sand is rare in the Keys and this key has two pieces of it. Sombrero Beach is in town, shaded along the back and shallow a long way out, which suits a party with children better than open water does. Curry Hammock is a few minutes east and quieter, with the same shallow water and a shoreline the wind crosses, which is why the kiteboarders are there and not on the town beach. Neither is far enough away to need planning. The airport is in the middle of town, so an afternoon on the sand and an evening at a table both fit inside the same day. Parties who would rather be on the water than next to it add water toys, and a beach picnic moves the whole afternoon off the public sand to somewhere with nobody on it.
Boot Key Harbor
Where the Boats Are
The harbour on the south side of town is the largest protected water in the middle Keys and the reason Marathon is a working boat town rather than a resort strip. Hundreds of moorings sit inside it, and the charter fleet works off the docks along its edge. Almost every day on the water here starts at one of those docks, which makes the harbour the first address of the trip rather than an afterthought. A dock pickup puts the party straight onto the boat instead of onto a rank, and a yacht waiting at Marathon is arranged the same way. Both are booked with the flight, so the slip time and the landing hour are set against each other once.
Bahia Honda and the Lower Keys
Minutes South
The next stretch below the bridge is the emptiest part of the chain. Bahia Honda has the widest beach in the Keys behind the ruins of the old rail span, and the water there is deep enough close in to swim properly. Below it the road runs through Big Pine Key and Sugarloaf Key, where the Key deer live and the traffic thins out to almost nothing. All of it is a short drive from the apron, which is why parties staying down there fly into Marathon rather than further on. Say which key the night is at and the car is booked to it with the flight rather than found on the day.
Onward Down the Keys
Down the Chain
Marathon is the middle of the chain and not the end of it. The road carries on southwest for another fifty miles to Key West, which has the only other runway in the Keys that takes an aircraft this size, and the islands run on past it as sand keys and reef to the Dry Tortugas. Northeast the chain goes back up through Islamorada and Key Largo, both of them under the flight path on the way down. Whether a second leg is flown, driven or run by boat depends on where it goes, and it is answered before it is booked rather than on the day. That is what turns one key into island hopping.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Marathon Florida?
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 Marathon 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 Marathon Florida: The Booked Hour, Boot Key Harbor and the Middle of the Chain
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 in the middle of the Florida Keys.
Private Jet Marathon Florida from Miami: Flying High and Fast Above the Weather
Above the weather on a private jet from Miami to Marathon
The water in between is not the risky part of this day. The sky over it is, and here the bill for it is not an hour but a booking you cannot get back. Marathon is a town that runs on slip times and booked slots. The offshore boats leave the harbour in the morning, because that is when the fish are where the captain says. The turtle hospital and the dolphin centre take parties at a stated hour and not at your convenience. The service out to Pigeon Key runs to a timetable. None of them waits for an aircraft, and none runs twice because you were late. Something small has to go beneath that build-up, work around it or sit the afternoon out on the ground. A jet goes up through it and stays at one level, so the hours that stop the rest of the chain rarely register on this flight. What the aircraft gives back is the front of the day, and it gives it to your party and to nobody else aboard the jets in the fleet of this size. Other private jet routes from Miami fly the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Marathon Florida: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Marathon
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 key and which airport suits your morning. All three are settings on a charter and not a schedule you are handed, because the airframe is booked to you for the day. 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 water and to a booking sheet. A charter boat leaves its slip at the hour it was taken, the flats behind the bridges come up on the tide and go again, and a booked slot in town is held for a stated hour. Those set the hour worth landing at, and the departure is built backwards from them. Thirty minutes ahead of the wheels leaving the ground is all the checking in there is. It is a walk from the car door to the aircraft door, past nobody. The hour you come home moves the same way: staying out for an evening on the water is something you tell the crew that morning, not something you rebook.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Marathon Florida: Nothing to File, Nothing to Carry
No paperwork and no check-in desk on a Marathon charter
A private jet from Miami to Marathon Florida stays inside Florida, so the day has nothing in it for anybody to file. What it has is paved asphalt in the middle of the chain, worth knowing first. There are two runways in the whole of the Keys that take an aircraft this size, and this key has the middle one. Five other island days we fly land on this same strip and then take a road or a boat onward. Yours does not: the car meets the aircraft on the apron, and the harbour and the beach are both 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 to the dock or the sand. What comes back is one time and one address, and nothing has to be confirmed twice. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. Should the sky push the departure, the weather and delays policy covers what happens next, and adding or dropping somebody is a line to us and not a problem you have to solve.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Marathon Florida: Milestone Days and Florida Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Marathon
A private jet from Miami to Marathon Florida is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend in the middle 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 by evening, which on a key this close is the obvious way to use a Saturday. Others stay the weekend 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. All of it is aboard before the door shuts, and the car is on the apron when it opens. A date that has to look like something cannot afford to wait behind an afternoon, and that is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Marathon Florida is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Marathon Florida: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Marathon?
Marathon lies about 78 nautical miles southwest of downtown Miami, roughly 90 statute, and almost all of it is open water. For a jet that is a short hop, and the block time for your date is answered in the quote instead of being printed here.
What matters more on this route is the comparison on the ground: around 115 miles of US-1, one lane each way for most of it, a little over two hours when the bridges are clear.
Can a private jet land in Marathon?
Yes. The airport on Vaca Key has paved asphalt 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 Marathon has the middle one.
That is why five other island days we fly land here first and then drive or take a boat onward. On this one the apron is the destination. Which airframe flies it is decided when we quote, since that turns on how many of you there are and which airport your morning starts at.
Why take a jet to Marathon rather than something smaller?
Because of what the sky over this stretch can do to a booking. Cloud stacks along it through a summer afternoon and a winter front runs across it in hours. A smaller aircraft has to duck under that, go round it or wait.
A jet goes up through and stays at one level. On most runs that buys an hour; here it buys the reservation, because the boat casts off from its slip and the slot in town is held to a stated time whether you made it 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 water and to a booking sheet: a charter boat leaving its slip, a booked slot in town, the tide on the flats behind the bridges. We build the departure backwards from whichever of those the day is about.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. Most of these aircraft carry nine passengers, which puts an entire party on one booking. The cabin holds the names you give us and stops there. Nothing is assigned, nobody else is sold the seat opposite, and the aircraft cannot go without half of you aboard. That list stays open almost to the day: adding or dropping somebody is a line to us, not a rebooking at your end.
Does an afternoon of weather cost us the day?
Rarely, and that is most of the reason to send a jet down this chain. It goes up through the build-up that holds a lighter aircraft on the ramp, so the hours that stop everything else here usually pass unnoticed at altitude.
The limit is at the two ends: no aircraft touches down in conditions under the published minimums. When that happens the day is moved, not lost, and the weather and delays policy says how, so nothing is argued out 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 and the aircraft stops in the middle of the chain rather than an hour short of it.
A boat out of the harbour in the morning, an afternoon on the sand at Sombrero Beach and dinner back in the city is the ordinary shape of it, and the return hour is yours to move on the day.
What is there to do in Marathon once we land?
The water first: Sombrero Reef offshore with its lighthouse on the edge of it, and the flats on the bay side that the guides pole rather than motor. Boot Key Harbor for the charter boats.
The turtle hospital in town and the dolphin centre up on Grassy Key. Crane Point for the hammock and the museum. Sombrero Beach and Curry Hammock for the sand. Pigeon Key under the old railway bridge. The Marathon destination page sets all of it out.
How do we get from the airport to the water?
A short drive. The runway is on Vaca Key in the middle of town, which puts the harbour, the beach and most of the charter docks minutes away instead of an onward leg.
The vehicle is booked alongside the aircraft, not hunted down at a kerb, and it stands on the apron as the door comes open. Tell us whether the day begins at a slip, a hotel or the sand and that is where it drops you.
Can you fly us on down the chain or back up it?
Yes, and the chain runs both ways from here. Key West is the other runway a jet can use, about forty miles further southwest, and the keys above Marathon are all under the flight path on the way down. Whether a second leg is flown, driven 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 Marathon?
The drive is around 115 miles of US-1, one lane each way for most of it, and a little over two hours when the bridges are clear. 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 in the middle of the chain with the morning still in front of you rather than behind you.
Can the dog come with us to Marathon?
In most cases yes, and for a good many parties that is the whole reason for chartering instead of buying tickets. The animal sits in the cabin beside you and never in a hold. Send the breed, the size and how many when you send the date: it bears on which airframe suits and what the crew sets up, and the answer comes back inside the quote.
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