The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Ragged Island
Ragged Island sits at the southern end of the Jumentos chain, three hundred and seventy four miles from Florida. Duncan Town is the one settlement on it, with a harbour, a lighthouse, the old salt ponds and a paved strip. That distance is why so few people get here and why the ordinary way down is slow. No airline flies to this island at all.
A jet closes the gap in one move. It goes high over the Gulf Stream and down the length of the country, stops once on the way to clear the border, and lands at Duncan Town itself. The hour you land is the hour the trip starts, with the flats and the whole chain still in front of you.
Everything between is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants. Your party brings passports and a bag. The strip at Duncan Town is paved, which is why a jet can come here at all. The island is also reached by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter, and each of those is a different day.
Plan Your Ragged Island Charter
Miami to Ragged Island Private Jet
How a Private Jet Ragged Island from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Ragged Island jet charter involves more than the time in the air above the Gulf Stream. Here is what every flight includes, from your first message to the moment you step out at Ragged Island.
Plan Your Ragged Island CharterDistance and Flight Level
Three Hundred Seventy Miles South, Flown High by Jet
Ragged Island lies three hundred and seventy four miles out, at the far end of a country that runs north to south, and the afternoon builds cloud over most of that water.
A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude the whole way rather than picking a path around it. That is what lets a date this far south be fixed weeks out instead of watched on the morning.
The Whole Aircraft
One Jet, One Party, Nobody Else to Duncan Town
The cabin carries your party and nobody else. No airline serves the island, and the usual ways down are the mail boat or a flight to Long Island with a boat after it, so a charter is not the faster version of an existing flight. Your date depends on nobody else's timetable, and the seating, the catering and the hour are agreed before the day.
The Runway at Duncan Town
A Paved Strip at Duncan Town, Short for a Jet
The strip at Duncan Town is the only one on the island and it is paved, which is what lets a jet land here at all.
It is short for one, so the aircraft offered is a lighter jet that fits it, and that is settled in the quote rather than at the ramp. There is no fuel on the island either, and the crew plans around that before the day.
Both Borders
Passports, Manifest, and the Desk Before Ragged Island
A Bahamas flight must make its first landing at an airport of entry, and Duncan Town is not one. The desk sits on the way down, at Exuma International or at Stella Maris on Long Island, so the stop is a landing on the route rather than a detour off it.
The crew does the talking, we take the passport details once and the travel documents go in from our side.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations, and What Travels to Ragged Island
Chef catering, a cake for a milestone, rods and a cooler for the flats: what comes aboard is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. Ashore it matters more than usual, because there is no shop worth the name on the island, so a guide, a boat and whatever the evening needs are arranged in advance.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip to Multi-Day Ragged Island Itinerary
Most parties stay, because a flats week this remote is not something to fit into an afternoon, and beds on the island are counted in handfuls. The aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs, and George Town in the Exumas lies on the way back if you want a second stop.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Ragged 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 Ragged Island
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Ragged 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 anyone is fishing: rods and wading gear come into the payload conversation early, and on a lighter jet that matters.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send what fits your party and the runway at Duncan Town. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. What you are pricing is the airframe and not the headcount. The border stop on the way down is part of the routing we send back, not a surprise on the day.
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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 skiff for the flats, a boat to Hog Cay, ground transport at the Miami end.
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
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 Ragged Island Puts You Down
The jet is where a Ragged Island day really begins. A flight high over the Gulf Stream and down the length of the Bahamas, and then the flats around Duncan Town, the anchorages off Hog Cay and the Jumentos running north, with bonefish thick on the sand. Below is what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Ragged Island CharterThe Ragged Island Flats and the Bonefish
Most Asked For
Fishing is why almost every flight down here happens. The flats of the Ragged Island Range hold bonefish in numbers that water with a road behind it cannot match, and the same flats carry permit and grown tarpon as well. Bonefish of fifteen pounds are on record, permit past twenty five and tarpon past eighty, and the reason is that hardly anybody fishes it. There is no fleet of skiffs waiting at the harbour, so the guide is booked before the flight rather than after it. The booked version is bonefishing and flats access. Rods and wading gear travel within the payload for the aircraft that day, and on a lighter jet that is worth naming when you send the date.
Hog Cay and the Anchorages
Where Boats Sit
Hog Cay lies just north of Ragged Island, and it is where boats cruising the chain tend to stop. Middle Pen Bay and Lobster Hole Point both sit out of the prevailing easterlies with sand close in, which on a chain this exposed is reason enough. Above Lobster Hole Point there is a covered gathering place on the beach with tables and two fire pits, kept up by people from Duncan Town, and the island meets there each February around Valentine's Day. If a boat is meeting your party, the hour is the easy part on this aircraft: you set the arrival time and the boat is told it once. That is a yacht transfer, and water toys come along if the afternoon is meant for the water.
Duncan Town, the Salt and the Lighthouse
The Only Settlement
Duncan Town is the only settlement in the Jumentos and the Ragged Islands. It takes its name from the man who opened the salt ponds late in the nineteenth century, and salt carried the island until the 1930s, when people began leaving for work elsewhere. A harbour, a lighthouse and the ponds are what remains, and some families still rake salt from their own plots. One church serves three denominations, and almost every house faces the sea. Hurricane Irma crossed the settlement on 8 September 2017 and the island was evacuated. The rebuild included a solar field begun in December 2019, sized to supply at least ninety percent of the island's power.
The Jumentos Cays Above Ragged Island
A Hundred Cays
The Jumentos and the Ragged Island Range form one curve of more than a hundred cays, roughly a hundred and ten miles long, from below the Exumas down to Little Ragged Island. Raccoon Cay, Double-Breasted Cay and Hog Cay are the names heard most, and nearly all of them are uninhabited. Nothing is built along the chain: no fuel, no chandlery, nothing to provision from. Boats treat it as an expedition for that reason, and it is also why it still looks as it does. A beach picnic out here goes onto sand that nobody else reached that morning, and it is planned with the flight, because there is nothing to buy once you land.
Flamingo Cay and the Birds
Halfway Up
Flamingo Cay lies partway up the chain and keeps resident birds. Its watering holes hold the small shrimp that colour flamingos in the first place, and it is one of the few Jumentos names known outside the Bahamas. From Ragged Island it is a boat run of some hours, so a visit is a full day on the water rather than an errand. Nothing on the cay is set up for visitors: no landing stage, no shade and no fresh water, so the day is planned around what the boat carries.
Deep Water off the Ragged Island Range
Beyond the Flats
The flats are shallow and the water beside them is not. Grouper, snapper, barracuda, tuna and kingfish are all taken off the Ragged Islands, so a party that wants a rod bent rather than a fish stalked has that within the same trip. The edge of the bank runs the length of the range rather than lying somewhere offshore, so a morning in a foot of water and an afternoon over several hundred feet can be the same day. With no fleet to book on arrival, the boat is arranged through custom requests before you leave Florida.
Sailing Sloops and the Regatta
Built on the Island
Ragged Islanders build boats. Sloops, booms and masts are made on the island and raced at regattas, which in the Bahamas is serious business, and it is the other thing the place is known for besides salt and bonefish. On Pigeon Cay a memorial cross stands to a bishop who died in 1904, a measure of how long this water has been worked. A regatta is one of the few fixed dates in the year down here, so if the trip is built around it, name the date at the enquiry: beds on the island are few and they go first.
Onward Up the Chain
Same Aircraft
A private jet charter from Miami to Ragged Island also works as one leg of a longer trip. The clearance stop already puts George Town or Long Island on the route, and the same aircraft reaches Great Exuma and, further south, Great Inagua. That is what turns one island into island hopping or a wider Bahamas day by air. The full island guide sits on the Ragged Island destination page, and the rest of the chain is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Ragged 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 Ragged 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 Ragged Island: The Gulf Stream Below You, the Border Stop and Duncan Town
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: why a jet is the aircraft that ignores the afternoon over a long stretch of water, how late the hour can still move, where the border is cleared on the way down, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Ragged Island from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Ragged Island
Getting to Ragged Island is hard for two reasons, and only one of them is the distance. The other is what the afternoon does to the water in between, and the fact that no airline comes here at all. The Gulf Stream builds cloud from late morning and the banks build more of it further south, so three hundred and seventy miles of sky is a great deal to have to fly around. An aircraft that stays low goes underneath that or waits for it. A jet climbs through the layer and holds one altitude the whole way, which is why a week here can be booked a month out and still start on the day it says. The other half is the stop. The border is cleared on the way down rather than on a separate day, and the leg on to Duncan Town is short, so the afternoon on the flats is still there when you land. The hours saved are hours on the flats, 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 Ragged Island: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Ragged Island
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name, and to this island there is no timetable to hand out in the first place. No airline serves Ragged Island, so every arrival at Duncan Town is somebody's own aircraft or the mail boat. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be standing on the flats 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 day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. Thirty minutes at the Miami end is the whole of the check-in. There is no counter to find and no boarding group to wait for: the bags go on in front of you and the aircraft goes when your party is aboard. The hour home moves on the same terms. The tide decides when the bonefish are on the flats and when a boat can cross to Hog Cay, so a trip that ends on the right water rather than on a printed date is the normal shape of this one. An early start is a booking like any other, and so is a return timed to the afternoon tide.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Ragged Island: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Ragged Island crossing
A private jet from Miami to Ragged Island crosses an international border twice in a day, and both crossings are filed in advance rather than on the morning. The crew files all three: the inbound declaration out of Florida, the clearance on arrival and the US return. Duncan Town carries neither customs nor immigration, so the first landing in the country is made where the desk is. On the way down that is Exuma International or Stella Maris on Long Island, a stop on the route rather than a detour off it, and which one depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance, and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. A change to the party before the day is a message to us and a refiling on our side. The return clears US customs at a Florida field with a federal inspection station.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Ragged Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A flats week, a long weekend or something to celebrate at Ragged Island
A private jet from Miami to Ragged Island is booked for the week that has to happen: a flats trip planned a year out, a proposal, a birthday on a beach with nobody else on it, a group that wants the bottom of the Bahamas to itself. Three hundred and seventy miles is far enough that the aircraft decides whether the date survives the journey. Some come for the bonefish and the permit and stay a week. Others fly down for a long weekend and are back when they said they would be. Both are the same charter, and nobody in the group travels separately. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. On an island with one settlement and no shops, that is how the evening happens at all. A date built around an occasion has the least room to slip, which is the other reason it goes on this aircraft. That is what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Ragged Island is for.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Ragged Island: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Ragged Island?
Ragged Island sits three hundred and seventy four miles from Florida, at the southern end of the Jumentos chain. On a jet that is one trip with a single stop to clear the border on the way down, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.
Why take a jet to Ragged Island rather than get there the ordinary way?
Because there is no ordinary way to this island. No airline flies to Duncan Town, so the alternative is the mail boat, or a flight to Long Island and then a boat or a charter across.
A jet is one trip with one border stop. The other half is the weather: over three hundred and seventy miles of open water there is a lot of sky to have to fly around, and a jet climbs through the layer instead.
Can a private jet land at Ragged Island?
Yes, on the paved strip at Duncan Town, the only one on the island. It is short for a jet, so the aircraft that comes back in the quote is a lighter one that fits it, and there is no fuel on the island, which the crew plans around before the day. You land at the one settlement rather than on another island.
Do we clear customs at Ragged Island?
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 Duncan Town is not one.
The desk sits on the way down, at Exuma International or at Stella Maris on Long Island, and 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. It is part of the way in rather than an interruption.
Which airport does the jet leave from in Miami?
There is no one business airport in Miami, there are several, and the right one is whichever puts the least driving between your morning and the aircraft. On a trip this long an hour lost in traffic is an hour off the flats at the other end.
The same field question decides the return: a flight home from the southern Bahamas clears US customs where there is a federal inspection station. The same goes for Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and both carry their own pages.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. Since no airline serves the island, there is no timetable to work around in the first place.
You fix the hour when you confirm, and moving it later is a message rather than a rebooking: the aircraft has nowhere else to be that day and nobody else aboard to inconvenience. The hour home works the same way, which is what lets a flats week end on the right tide.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. Nothing is assigned, nobody shares the cabin, and the aircraft does not go while half your group is still in the car park. The list can change close to the day as well: adding or dropping a name is paperwork on our side and not a rebooking on yours.
Do I need a passport for Ragged Island?
Yes, for every passenger including children. A jet does not make the Bahamas any less of a different country. The passport details are taken once at the enquiry and filed for both sides before you go, and the travel documents page sets out what each passenger hands over and when.
How early do we need to be there?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to walk through at the Miami end. You park, you walk out to the aircraft, and the outbound filing went in from our side well before you got there, so there is nothing to print and nothing to hand over.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Less often than on anything else we fly this route with, and over three hundred and seventy miles of open water that is the point of the aircraft. A jet works through the layer that keeps the rest of the fleet 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 in, which to this island does not exist.
Can we bring fishing rods on the jet?
Yes, inside the payload the aircraft has that day, and the place to say it is the enquiry rather than the ramp. Most parties here come for the flats, where bonefish, permit and tarpon share the same water, so rods and wading gear are the usual cargo on this route.
On a lighter jet that is worth naming early: list what is coming along with the headcount and it goes into the figures you get back.
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 border stop in it and everything included, and nothing is held until you say the word.
If the days have anything else in them, a guide for the flats, a boat to Hog Cay or a table somewhere, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
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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