Private Jet from Miami to Sandy Point

Sandy Point lies about a hundred and seventy five miles east of Downtown Miami, at the southwest tip of Great Abaco. On a jet that is a single leg over the Gulf Stream, landing at the point rather than in Marsh Harbour.

We send the real block time with the quote instead of printing a figure here, since it changes with the aircraft and with whether the border is cleared at the point or with a stop on the way.

Because the usual way ends an hour short. Most arrivals come into Marsh Harbour and drive south through the pine forest, and the same drive waits at the end of the stay. A charter lands a mile from the village on the day you chose.

And over the Stream there is afternoon weather to get around, which a jet climbs above instead. The result is the same flats with the first tide of the trip still running when you arrive.

Yes. The strip a mile south of the settlement is paved, so the jet lands at Sandy Point itself rather than somewhere up the island. Nothing else follows the landing, no ferry and no second flight, and the car you booked is at the aircraft when the steps come down.

Only by arrangement, and it is the one thing worth knowing before you plan. Sandy Point is a port of entry on request, so officers are booked for your arrival in advance.

Where that cannot be done for the hour you want, the first landing in the Bahamas is a stop of its own at an airport of entry such as Marsh Harbour, and the short hop south follows. Which applies comes back with the quote, and the crew does the talking in both cases.

There is more than one business airport around Miami, and the best one is the closest to where your day begins. On a flats trip those minutes count, because the tide sets the hour you want to be on the water.

The return is decided the same way: coming home from Abaco, the jet clears US customs at a field with a federal inspection station. Departures from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are possible as well and each has a page of its own.

Yes, within daylight and within the duty hours of the crew. For anglers that is the whole reason to charter, since the tide picks the good hours and an airline does not.

The time is fixed when you confirm and can still shift later, because the aircraft has no other job that day and no other passengers to wait for. The hour home can shift in the same way. Moving either one takes a message, not a new booking.

No. The aircraft carries your party and only your party: no seat numbers, no strangers in the cabin, and no risk of it leaving with half the group still in the car.

The list of names can change until shortly before departure, and each change is a new filing on our side rather than a new booking on yours. The price does not move, because you are paying for the aircraft rather than for seats.

Yes, each guest needs one, children too, because the Bahamas is a separate country whatever you fly in. We collect the passport details once, at the enquiry, and file the outbound and the return before you leave. What every guest provides, and the deadline for it, is on the travel documents page. The same passports are shown to the officers on arrival, and nothing else is asked for there.

Thirty minutes is enough. Nobody queues at a terminal in Miami: you get out of the car, walk to the steps, and the paperwork for the outbound leg has already been filed by us. Nothing needs printing or handing over. Your bags are loaded while you watch, and the door shuts once the last of your party is on board.

Less often than on anything else that flies this route, which is the point of the aircraft. A jet cruises over the layer that keeps the others waiting on the ground.

When it is bad enough to matter anyway, the flight moves: rebooking beats flying in poor conditions, we tell you the moment we know, and since the aircraft is reserved for your party alone, a new hour is agreed rather than a lost connection in Marsh Harbour.

Yes, as far as the payload of the aircraft allows on the day, so name it in your first message rather than at the steps. Most parties who fly to Sandy Point come for the bonefish, so rods, wading boots and coolers are the usual cargo on this route.

List the gear next to the headcount and the aircraft we offer already allows for it. Say too whether you want a guide, because the good ones in the village are booked ahead rather than found on arrival.

Tell us the date, how many are travelling, the airport closest to your morning and the hour you have in mind. We reply with the aircraft available, the price, the boarding time, how the border is handled on that date and what is included, and nothing is reserved until you confirm.

If the stay needs a car, a guide or provisions, mention it in the same message and it is priced together with the flight. In a village this size, the earlier it is asked for, the easier it is to arrange.

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.