Private Jet from Miami to Rock Sound

Rock Sound lies at the southern end of Eleuthera, around two hundred and fifty miles east of the city, so it is a short leg on a jet. The block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page, because it depends on the aircraft and the departure airport.

What matters more is the other end: landing here instead of at the top of the island saves a two hour drive each way, which on a short trip is most of a day. Send the address you are heading for with the dates and the field is picked around it.

Yes. Rock Sound International is one of the three paved fields on Eleuthera and the southern one, and it takes a jet.

That is unusual for the quiet end of a Bahamian island, and it is the reason a party staying in the south can be set down minutes from the villa rather than at the far end of a hundred and ten mile island.

Because of where your week is. One road runs the length of Eleuthera and its two ends are two hours apart on it. North Eleuthera serves the top of the island and the boats to the pink sand; Rock Sound serves the south, the beaches past the settlement and the water around Cape Eleuthera.

If the day is about the whole island rather than one end of it, the Eleuthera page covers all three fields. We ask for the address at the enquiry rather than assuming the busiest field, because on an island this long the wrong strip costs more than anything else on this page.

On the field you land on. Rock Sound is a Bahamian port of entry, so the border desk sits on the same ground the aircraft stops on.

There is no separate customs airport to fly first, no last leg by boat and no drive up the island to find a desk. The crew files the declaration from Florida and the US return before you leave, and your party carries a valid passport and nothing else.

The weather. The Gulf Stream builds cloud and squalls through the afternoon, and that is what moves days on this route. A boat waits it out and a light aircraft flies underneath it or not at all.

A jet climbs above the layer and holds one altitude across. On a run this far out that is the difference between a day that happens on the date you chose and one that moves.

The settlement has a blue hole in the middle of it, the Ocean Hole, which is inland and full of fish that come in from the sea through the rock. There is a cave known as the Cathedral with a wooden ladder into it, and the Rock Sound Sailing Regatta draws boats from well outside the Bahamas.

South again the road runs out at a beach under a lighthouse with nothing built on it. The settlement itself has been renamed twice: it began as New Portsmouth and was known for a long stretch as Wreck Sound, which says plainly what the water around it used to do to boats that did not know it.

Miami has no single business airport, it has several, and the right one is the shortest ground leg from where your morning starts. The executive field north west of the city is the usual departure and is also where a return from the islands clears US customs.

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.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you.

The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience. At this end of the island it matters twice: a late afternoon on the beach no longer costs you the flight.

No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group.

The passenger list can also change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.

Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a jet does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.

Yes. The crossing takes a fraction of the day, both ends are quick and the return hour stays movable while you are still on the island.

Landing at this end is what makes it work: a morning out to the south field leaves the whole afternoon at the beach instead of two hours of it on the road up from the north.

The hour home is still yours while you are on the island, so a lunch that runs long is a message to us rather than a flight missed.

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 Gulf Stream weather is usually a non-event.

When it is not, 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 queue for the next available seat.

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.