The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Moore's Island
Moore's Island sits alone in the Bight of Abaco, twenty eight miles of shallow water west of the Abaco mainland. Around nine hundred and fifty people live in its two settlements, Hard Bargain and The Bight, on an island seven miles long that lives off fishing and crawfish. Its own strip is gravel and too short for a jet, and the island is not a port of entry.
The jet still flies the long part. It goes high over the Gulf Stream in one leg and lands on the paved runway at Marsh Harbour, where customs sits on the same field. A small plane then flies about twenty eight nautical miles back west across the Bight and puts down on the island's gravel strip.
Everything between is ours: the departure airport, the jet and crew, the small plane and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings passports, rods if anyone fishes, and a bag. The island is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each one is its own kind of day to the same flats.
Plan Your Moore's Island Charter
Miami to Moore's Island Private Jet
How a Private Jet Moore's Island from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Moore's Island jet charter involves more than the time high over the Gulf Stream. Here is what every trip includes, from your first message to the moment you step off the small plane on Moore's Island.
Plan Your Moore's Island CharterDistance and Flight Level
Open Water and the Bight of Abaco, Flown at One Level
The first half of the way is the Stream, the rest is the shallow water of the Bahamas, and both build cloud as the day warms. A jet climbs through that layer and stays at one level instead of threading around it, so the week you set for the Moore's Island flats is the week the trip starts.
Where the Jet Lands
Jet to Marsh Harbour, Small Plane to Moore's Island
The strip on Moore's Island is gravel and too short for a jet, so the jet lands on the paved runway at Marsh Harbour on the Abaco mainland. From there a small plane flies about twenty eight nautical miles back west across the Bight to the island's own strip, booked with the jet rather than found after you land.
Both Borders
Customs at Marsh Harbour Before the Small Plane
A Bahamas flight must make its first landing at an airport of entry, and Moore's Island is not one. At Marsh Harbour the desk sits on the field the jet lands on, so passports are seen before the small plane leaves. We take the passport details once and the travel documents go in from our side.
The Whole Aircraft
One Jet and One Party, Nobody Else Aboard
The cabin carries your party and nobody else, and so does the small plane after it. The second aircraft is timed to the first, so a group with rods and bags reaches Hard Bargain together instead of in turns. Seating, catering and the hour are agreed before the day.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Rod Tubes and What Travels to Moore's Island
Chef catering, a cake for a birthday, rod tubes for the flats: what comes along is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. Ashore it works the same way. A guide and a boat for the flats are set ahead on an island with no resort strip and no row of shops to fall back on.
How Long the Day Runs
Long Weekend or a Week on the Moore's Island Flats
Some parties come for a long weekend of bonefish and fly home on the Sunday. Others stay the week and fish every tide. The aircraft works to the plan, and Sandy Point lies across the water at the tip of Great Abaco if part of the week belongs there.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Moore's 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. 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 Moore's Island
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Moore's 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 go. Tell us the hour you would like to leave, and whether the trip is bonefish, tarpon or a family visit in Hard Bargain, because the tide and the month set the timing for the first two.
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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 option. You price the aircraft rather than the seats, so four people cost what eight do. The landing at Marsh Harbour and the small plane on to Moore's Island are both written into the routing we send back.
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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 boat for the flats, ground transport to the airport at home. 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
There is no terminal queue to join. Just be 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 Moore's Island Puts You Down
The jet is where a Moore's Island trip really begins. A flight high over the Gulf Stream, a small plane back across the Bight from Marsh Harbour, and then two villages, flats on every side and some of the least fished water in the Abacos. Below is what a stay out there can look like.
Plan Your Moore's Island CharterThe Flats and the Bonefish
Most Asked For
The flats are the reason most parties name this island. Shallow sand runs around Moore's Island on every side and drops straight into deep water in several places, and that edge is where the big bonefish feed. The southern half of the Bight of Abaco is fished far less than the cays along the Sea of Abaco, and permit work the same water. Anglers who know the Abacos come here for exactly that quiet. Say how many rods are coming when you send the date. Parties book bonefishing and flats access or a whole fishing day by air, and the gear travels in the hold with the bags.
Tarpon in the Bight
The Month Matters
Tarpon are the second half of the island's name among anglers, and the fish worked here run roughly 20 to 80 pounds. They are the one species that makes the month part of the conversation. Bonefish are there whatever date the party has already chosen, so a trip built around tarpon is worth naming in the first message. It moves the week far more than it moves the hour.
Hard Bargain and The Bight
The Two Settlements
Two villages share the island. Hard Bargain is the larger one and the seat of the district, The Bight is the other, and around nine hundred and fifty people live between them on seven miles of land. Nothing here was built for visitors: no resort strip, no cruise pier, no row of shops. There are boats at the water, kitchen gardens behind the houses, a school and churches. Parties who want a set table rather than a fishing boat book a fly and dine day and bring the meal with them. Anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests.
The Crawfish Boats
A Working Island
Fishing and crawfishing keep the island going, as they have for as long as anyone there can remember. Crawfish is the Bahamian word for the spiny lobster, and it pays for most of what you see from the Small plane on the way in. It also sets the rhythm of a day: boats out early, a quiet middle, and whatever happens happening at the water rather than on a beach front. Add catering on board if the party wants lunch without arranging it ashore.
The Water Across to the Mainland
Twenty Odd Miles
On the mainland side, the nearest point is Sandy Point at the southern tip of Great Abaco. Boats run the open water between the two past Gorda Cay, Long Rock and Channel Cay, a little under twenty nautical miles of shallow sea. That stretch is part of what keeps the island quiet, and part of what keeps the flats so lightly fished. It is also the route a guide takes when a day out of Sandy Point is on the plan. Add water toys if the hours belong on the water rather than on the sand, or a dock pickup if a boat is meeting you at the government dock.
Empty Sand and Shallow Water
Nobody On It
The rest of a stay here is water with nothing on it. Parts of the Bight dry to open sand as the tide drops, and the island's own shore runs for miles without a building. That is where a beach picnic goes. Low water sets the hour, not the one you would choose, and it is the one part of a day here that the sea decides rather than the aircraft.
The Island That Raised a 400m Champion
Worth Knowing
For nine hundred and fifty people, the island has a loud claim on Bahamian sport. Steven Gardiner went to the Moores Island All-Age School and ran for the Exterminators Track and Field Club there, before he won the Olympic 400 metres in Tokyo in 43.85 seconds. Visitors are often surprised by it, and that is the point. This is an island with a life of its own, and the flight simply lands in the middle of it.
Onward Across the Abacos
Same Trip
A private jet charter from Miami to Moore's Island can also be one part of a longer trip. Marsh Harbour, where the jet lands, is the starting point for the ferries to Elbow Cay and Hope Town, Man-O-War Cay and Great Guana Cay, and Treasure Cay and Green Turtle Cay lie further north. That is what turns one island into island hopping or a wider Bahamas trip. The Moore's Island destination page and the Moore's Island getaway set out the rest. If a boat is meeting you, it is arranged with the flight rather than on the day. That is a yacht transfer, and it is booked with the jet.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Moore's 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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: The Gulf Stream, Marsh Harbour and the Bight of Abaco
Everything above is the trip. 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 before the small plane, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Moore's Island from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Moore's Island
The hard part of reaching an island in the middle of the Bight of Abaco is not the distance. It is what the afternoon sky does on the way, and the second aircraft that has to be met at the far end of the first. Cloud builds over the Gulf Stream from late morning, and the Stream is the first half of the way. An aircraft that stays low ducks under it or waits. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one level all the way to Marsh Harbour, which is why a week on the Moore's Island flats can be fixed months ahead and still begin on the date it says. The other half is time on the ground. Customs and the small plane take the same time on any aircraft, so a faster long leg leaves more of the day for the flats, the tide and the island. It also lands a party that is fresh for the first tide. 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 Moore's Island: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Moore's Island
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The trip is built around the hour you name, and the small plane out of Marsh Harbour waits for the jet rather than the other way round. You choose the hour you lift off in Miami, the hour you want to be on the water off Moore's Island 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 trip runs out of Fort Lauderdale. Check-in in Miami is half an hour and no more. Nobody calls a boarding group and nobody weighs a bag at a desk: it is loaded while you watch, and the jet goes when the last of your party has taken a seat. The hour home moves on the same terms. On the flats the tide decides when the fishing is good, so a last day that ends when the water is done rather than when a printed time says is the usual shape of this one. Name the tide you want for the last morning, and the departure is set behind it, not ahead of it. The small plane back to Marsh Harbour is timed to the jet in the same way.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Moore's Island: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Moore's Island crossing
A private jet from Miami to Moore's Island crosses an international border twice, and both crossings are filed in advance rather than on the morning. The crew files all three: the declaration out of Florida, the clearance on arrival and the US return. The first landing in the country is Marsh Harbour, because Moore's Island is not a port of entry. Customs and immigration sit on the field where the jet lands, so passports are seen there, once, before the small plane carries on west across the Bight of Abaco. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. Rods, reels and the rest are covered by the baggage guidance, and if weather moves the day, the weather and delays policy sets out what happens next. Someone joining or dropping out late means one message from you; the filing is redone on our side. The same list travels on to the small plane, so nobody fills in a form twice.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Moore's Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A birthday, a tarpon week or a family visit to Moore's Island
A private jet from Miami to Moore's Island is booked for the trip that has to happen: a week on the flats set around the tarpon, a proposal on open sand at low water, a party of anglers who want the first tide of the morning. With a stop and a second aircraft on the way, the jet decides whether the date survives the journey. Some stay over for the fishing and fly home at the end of the week. Others fly down for a long weekend and are home when they said they would be. Both are the same charter, and nobody in the group travels separately. When the trip marks something to celebrate, tell us with the dates: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers come along. On an island with no resort and no shop to speak of, that is how the evening turns out as planned, and it is loaded in Miami before you board. An occasion leaves no slack in the date, and that is the second reason it flies on a jet. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Moore's Island is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Moore's Island: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Moore's Island?
Moore's Island lies about a hundred and seventy miles east of Miami, in the Bight of Abaco. The jet flies on to Marsh Harbour, customs is cleared there, and a small plane covers the last twenty eight nautical miles back west.
The real figure is both flights plus the time on the ground between them, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a page.
Why does the jet land at Marsh Harbour and not on Moore's Island?
Because the strip on Moore's Island is gravel and too short for a jet, and the island is not a port of entry. Marsh Harbour, on the Abaco mainland, has a paved runway long enough for one and customs on the same field.
From there the last leg is a small plane, which lands on the island's own strip. Both legs are booked together, so nothing is left to arrange when you land.
Is it Moore's Island or Moores Island?
Both spellings are in use. Maps and most guides write Moore's Island, while the school is the Moores Island All-Age School and the airfield is listed as Mores Island. It is the same island in the Bight of Abaco, with Hard Bargain as its main settlement and The Bight as the second.
Where do we clear customs on the way to Moore's Island?
At Marsh Harbour. A Bahamas flight has to make its first landing in the country at an airport of entry, and Moore's Island is not one, so the jet lands where customs and immigration sit.
Passports are seen there, the small plane carries on west afterwards, and the crew does the talking. It is part of the routing that comes back with the quote, not something to sort out on the day.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
Whichever of the Miami business airports is closest to where you are that morning; there is more than one, and the drive is the part to keep short when a guide is waiting at the other end. Coming back, the jet lands where US customs has an inspection station, and that is fixed in the routing too. Departures from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach have their own pages.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. You fix the hour when you confirm, and the small plane out of Marsh Harbour is set to it. Moving it later is a message rather than a rebooking, and the hour home works the same way, which matters on an island where the tide decides the fishing.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. Both aircraft carry the names on your list and no one else, so the cabin to Marsh Harbour and the small plane after it are your party alone.
Nobody is seated next to a stranger and nothing departs with someone still parking. A name added or taken off in the last days is handled by us as a change to the filing, while the booking itself stays exactly as it was.
Do I need a passport for Moore's Island?
Yes, for every passenger including children. Moore's Island is in the Bahamas, and the passports are checked at Marsh Harbour on the way in.
The details are taken with the first message, we file them for the Bahamas and for the return, and the travel documents page lists what each guest needs. Keep the same passports to hand for the flight home, because US customs sees them once more on landing in Florida.
How early do we need to be there?
Half an hour is enough. In Miami there is no terminal hall between the car and the steps, and the paperwork for the flight out was filed by us days earlier, so you arrive, the bags and rod tubes are loaded and the jet leaves. No boarding pass, no queue and no counter on the way.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Rarely enough to change the plan, which over the Gulf Stream is the reason to take a jet. It climbs through the cloud that holds smaller aircraft on the ground and stays above it to Marsh Harbour.
If a day is rough enough to matter even so, it moves: you hear as soon as we do, a new date is agreed with you, and the aircraft stays yours, so nobody is waiting on a seat that went to someone else.
Can we plan the trip around the tarpon?
Yes, and it is the one thing worth saying with the first message. The tarpon fished around the island run roughly 20 to 80 pounds, and how many are about depends on the month.
Bonefish and permit are on the flats whatever the date, so a trip that is specifically about tarpon is set by the month first and the flights are built around it, not the other way round.
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 stop at Marsh Harbour and the small plane in it, and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word.
If the trip has anything else in it, a guide for the flats, a boat across the Bight or catering for the week, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft. The reply comes back the way you wrote, on WhatsApp or by email.
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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