The Flight
Private Jet Miami to Stocking Island
Stocking Island is the long, thin cay lying across Elizabeth Harbour from George Town: about three miles of sand, no road, no cars and only a handful of people living on it. It has no runway either. The jet sets down on Exuma International, the port of entry on Great Exuma twelve miles up the road from town, and the last leg is about ten minutes by boat across the harbour.
Two hundred and seventy six nautical miles of open water lie between the city and that harbour, and the weather over them is what usually moves a trip this far out. A jet goes over the top of it, keeps one level for the whole run and lands with most of the morning unused, which is what makes a barrier beach at the far end of the Gulf Stream a realistic day.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure airport, the aircraft and crew, the car to the dock, the boat across and both border filings with the travel documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag, and names the hour. The same cay is reached other ways as well: by small plane, by seaplane, by private plane and by helicopter. The island the jet lands on has its own page, the private jet to Great Exuma.
Plan Your Stocking Island Charter
Miami to Stocking Island Private Jet
How a Private Jet Stocking Island from Miami Flight Actually Works
A Miami to Stocking 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 off the boat onto the sand.
Plan Your Stocking Island CharterDistance and Flight Level
Two Hundred and Seventy Six Miles, Flown High
George Town lies around two hundred and seventy six nautical miles south east of the city, far enough that the weather in between is what usually moves a trip. The jet crosses above that layer rather than through it, so the question on the morning is when you want to leave rather than whether you can.
The Whole Aircraft
Your Party Alone, in the Cabin and the Boat
The cabin carries your party and nobody else, and so does the boat at the other end. Seating, the departure hour and what comes on board are agreed before the day rather than found at the ramp. Nobody is added after you book, and nobody on the harbour crossing is waiting for a different flight.
The Runway and the Last Leg
Exuma International, Then Ten Minutes by Boat
Stocking Island has no runway, so the jet sets down on Exuma International on Great Exuma, twelve miles north west of George Town. A car takes you down the road to the town dock, and from there it is about ten minutes by boat across Elizabeth Harbour to the sand. Both legs are booked with the flight and timed to it.
Both Borders
Passports and Manifest, Cleared Where the Jet Stops
The Bahamas is a different country and a jet does not change that. Exuma International is a port of entry, so the arrival clears on the field before anyone gets near the water. We take the passport details once, at the enquiry, and the travel documents go in from our side for the way out and the way home.
On Board and Ashore
Catering in the Cabin, a Cooler on the Boat
Chef catering, a cake for a birthday, snorkelling gear and a cooler: what comes aboard is ordered with the flight rather than asked for on it. The same goes for the boat. Most of the island has nothing for sale, so whatever the afternoon needs is loaded at the George Town dock before you cross.
How Long the Day Runs
A Beach Afternoon or a Week Across the Harbour
The crossing costs a fraction of the day even at this range, so out in the morning and home in the evening works, with the boat back to the dock timed to the flight. Stay on and cross each day, or carry on to Long Island on the way back: the aircraft is yours for as long as the itinerary runs.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Jet from Miami to Stocking 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 Stocking Island
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Stocking 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.
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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, a car at the terminal for the drive to the George Town dock, ground transport and the boat across the harbour. 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.
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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 Stocking Island Puts You Down
Stocking Island is the quiet side of Elizabeth Harbour: flat water and a long beach facing the town, surf and empty dunes on the Atlantic shore, and a stone beacon on the ridge between the two. The jet covers the long stretch from Miami high above the weather, and a short boat ride across the harbour does the rest.
Plan Your Stocking Island CharterVolleyball Beach and the Harbour Side
Most Asked For
The side facing the town is the calm one: shallow, pale water, boats riding in the channel just off it, and a long run of sand that is rarely crowded. The only business on that shore is a beach bar, open since 1998, which began as a daytime meeting point for the crews living aboard in the anchorage. Conch salad, a grill and a volleyball court in the sand, busiest on a Sunday. A party that wants the sand to itself walks a few hundred yards along, where nothing is built, and has catering brought across on the boat. Say which of the two you want when you send the date.
The Monument and the Island Trails
A Short Walk
On the highest ground stands a stone beacon, built as a mark for shipping when salt was the trade here. The climb to it is short and the only one on the island, and from the top Exuma Sound lies on one hand and the anchorage on the other. Marked paths with benches cross the island between the two coasts, and a free map is handed out at the beach. The loop to the beacon and back takes a little over an hour, with no shade and nothing sold on the way, so it is a morning walk rather than an afternoon one.
The Mystery Cave
Snorkel Depth
A couple of minutes by boat from the beach, a blue hole opens in the shallows. Jacques Cousteau once poured red dye into it on a falling tide to see how far it ran, and watched from the air as the colour surfaced two miles out at sea. The cave itself is for trained cave divers only. Its mouth is shallow enough to snorkel and full of fish, which is where most parties spend half an hour of the afternoon.
Sand Dollar Beach and the Ocean Side
Two Coasts
Walk across the island in a few minutes and the holiday changes. The Atlantic side has surf, a dune line behind it and driftwood along the tide mark, and long stretches of white sand with nothing built on them and nobody on them. One of those beaches takes its name from the sand dollars washed up on it. Tell us which coast the party is after. It decides where the boat puts you ashore, and how far everything you brought has to be carried.
The Stromatolites
A Million Years
At the edge of the sand lie stromatolites: low grey mounds built by bacteria and dated at more than a million years old. They look like rock, and they are why marine biologists choose this island over prettier ones. They are reached on foot, round the bay at low water and then a wade across the channel. The tide sets that hour, not you, so name it when you book and the flight and the boat are timed around it.
Elizabeth Harbour and the Anchorage
Yachts Alongside
The island is what turns the water behind it into a harbour. It stands between Exuma Sound and the shore, so the anchorage stays flat when the Atlantic is not, and through the winter the boats lying here are counted in dozens. That is also why the last leg of this trip is an easy one: ten minutes on sheltered water rather than an open crossing. If a boat of your own is meeting the party, that is a yacht transfer, and water toys can be waiting on it.
George Town Across the Harbour
One Mile Over
Everything the island lacks is a mile away on Great Exuma. George Town has the shops, the straw market, the bank and the docks, and the runway sits twelve miles up the road. Your day passes through the town twice: once on the way to the boat, once on the way back. A party staying on the main island crosses for the beach and returns for dinner. The island as a whole, with the runway on it, is written up as the private jet to Great Exuma.
Onward Up the Chain
A Separate Day
The Exumas run north from this harbour for about a hundred miles, and the famous stops are all up that way: the swimming pigs, the grotto and the cays of the national park near Staniel Cay. By boat from here they are hours, not minutes. Where the middle of the chain is the point of the trip, the jet route up the Exumas is the place to start. The island guide sits on the Stocking Island destination page, the packaged version is the Stocking Island getaway day trip, and anything too big for the cabin goes by island logistics.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Jet Miami to Stocking 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 Stocking Island 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 Stocking Island: Exuma International, the George Town Dock and Ten Minutes of Harbour
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: why a jet is the aircraft that ignores the afternoon at this range, how late the hour can still move with a boat waiting at the far end, who does the paperwork, and what a date worth marking looks like on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Jet Stocking Island from Miami: Flying High and Fast Over the Gulf Stream
Over the Gulf Stream on a private jet from Miami to Stocking Island
The crossing is not dead time between two airports, and on a run this long it is not the part that usually goes wrong either. The weather is. Around two hundred and seventy six nautical miles of open water sit between Miami and the harbour at George Town. Cloud building anywhere along that line in the afternoon is what holds a boat in port and keeps a light aircraft on the ground. The jet goes up through it and stays above it for the whole run, so the front that cancels other days is mostly something you look down on. Here that counts twice, because the flight is not the last leg. The boat across Elizabeth Harbour is ten minutes of sheltered water, and it works best when you arrive at the hour the skipper was given. A jet that keeps its hour keeps his too. The hours saved are the hours you get back, and the cabin carries your party alone on jets in the fleet of this size. Other private jet routes from Miami are flown the same way.
Private Jet to Miami from Stocking Island: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private jet to Stocking Island
A charter has no timetable to fit into. The day is set by the hour you give us. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be on the sand at Stocking Island and which airport in the city suits your morning. The aircraft, the car and the boat across the harbour all run to those answers rather than to a departure somebody else set, and 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. Half an hour before lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft and the bags go on in front of you. The return hour matters as much as the outbound one here. Low water decides when the stromatolites can be reached on foot, and a Sunday on the harbour beach tends to run long, so the boat back to the dock and the flight home are moved together with one message rather than rebooked.
Private Jet Charter Miami to Stocking Island: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Stocking Island crossing
A private jet from Miami to Stocking Island crosses a border twice in a day, and that is the part that goes wrong unfiled. Entry asks for a declaration from Florida, clearance on arrival and a US return filed before you leave, which sets where you land on the way home. The crew files all three. The clearance happens at Exuma International, which is a port of entry, so by the time your party reaches the dock in George Town the Bahamas side is done and the boat across the harbour is simply a boat. The town dock is listed for arrival by water too, which matters if a yacht is meeting you instead. Passports for everyone, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. The landing point home comes with the quote, a delay under the weather and delays policy. If the party changes, the crew refiles: a name added or dropped is a message.
Private Jet Charter from Miami to Stocking Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Stocking Island
A private jet from Miami to Stocking Island is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend with the people who matter. A cay with no road and a handful of residents is about as private as a beach gets this close to a town. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening, with the boat back across the harbour timed to the flight. Others book the return for the day they want. Both are one charter, and the group travels 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 and go across on the boat. Nothing on the ocean side of the island is built, so a table on the sand exists only if it was planned, and that is the other half of what a Private Jet Charter from Miami to Stocking Island buys.
Questions
Private Jet Miami to Stocking Island: Questions Answered
How long is the private jet flight from Miami to Stocking Island?
George Town sits around two hundred and seventy six nautical miles south east of the city, which makes it one of the longer crossings we fly out of Miami. On a jet that is still a short leg, and the exact block time comes back with the quote rather than as a number on a web page.
Add the drive from the runway to the town dock and about ten minutes by boat, and a cay this far out is still a day trip if you want it to be.
Can a private jet land on Stocking Island?
No. The island has no runway and no road, so no aircraft with wheels lands on it. The jet sets down on Exuma International on Great Exuma, which has a paved runway and is a port of entry, so the border is cleared there.
From the field it is a drive to the dock in George Town and about ten minutes by boat across Elizabeth Harbour, and both are arranged with the flight.
Why take a jet this far out?
The weather and the distance together. Two hundred and seventy six miles of open water is enough that cloud building anywhere along it moves the day, and that is what keeps boats in port and light aircraft on the ground.
A jet climbs above the layer and holds one altitude across. With a boat to meet at the far end, arriving when you said you would is worth more here than on a route that ends at a terminal.
How do we get from the airport to the island?
By road and then by water. Exuma International sits about twelve miles north west of George Town, so a car takes your party down to the town dock, and from there the boat crosses about a mile of sheltered harbour in around ten minutes.
The car and the boat are booked with the aircraft and timed to it, so nobody stands on a dock waiting to find out which landing a skipper is meeting.
What is there to do on Stocking Island?
Beach, mostly, on two very different coasts. The harbour side is flat, shallow water with a beach bar that has been there since 1998. The Atlantic side is surf, dunes and empty sand.
A stone beacon from the salt trading days stands on the ridge between them, the mouth of a blue hole is shallow enough to snorkel, and stromatolites more than a million years old sit at the edge of the bay at low water.
What about the swimming pigs?
They are about fifty miles north, at Big Major Cay in the middle of the chain, which is roughly two hours each way in a fast boat from George Town.
That is a full day out of a stay here rather than something to fit around an evening flight home. If the pigs are the reason for the trip rather than an extra, the page for a jet up the chain is the better starting point.
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. 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 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, and it applies to the way home as well: the hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes. The boat across the harbour moves with it, so an afternoon that runs long on the sand is a message rather than a rebooking.
Is anyone else on the jet?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else, and the boat at the other end is booked the same way. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group. A name added or dropped shortly before the flight is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do I need a passport for Stocking Island?
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, and the arrival is cleared at Exuma International before you reach the boat. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.
Can we do it as a day trip?
Yes. The crossing takes a fraction of the day even at this range, the border is done on the field, and the drive and the boat are short. Out in the morning, an afternoon on the sand and home in the evening is a normal shape for this trip, with the return hour still movable while you are there. On anything slower the same itinerary is two days with a night in it.
What if the weather turns on the day?
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, and the last leg runs on the sheltered side of the island, so an afternoon of weather is usually a non-event.
When it is not, the day moves: we would rather rebook a flight than fly it badly, and you are told as early as we know.
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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