Private Jet from Miami to Tilloo Cay

The distance is about 205 statute miles, just under 180 nautical, and the jet covers most of it before landing at Marsh Harbour, which is a short leg for this aircraft.

The exact block time comes with the quote rather than as a figure on a web page. What counts more on this route is that the flight takes so little of the day that the hours on the cay are what you actually paid for.

No. The cay is a narrow ridge of bush and beach with a few private houses and no airstrip of any kind. The jet lands at Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco, and a private boat takes you about six nautical miles across the Sea of Abaco. Both parts are booked together and settled before you leave Florida.

No. No ferry serves Tilloo Cay, and the people who live there get about by boat. That is why the last leg is a boat chartered for your party, waiting at the dock after a short drive from the airport. It is arranged with the flight, timed to your landing, and the skipper knows which aircraft is being met.

Because of the 205 miles before the boat, and because this arrival is a relay. Cloud and squalls build over the Gulf Stream as the afternoon goes on, and on a crossing this long that is what pushes days back. A jet climbs through and holds its level, so an afternoon that would hold up everything else usually passes underneath.

Marsh Harbour adds 6,100 feet of asphalt and its own border desk, so there is no extra customs stop and no short strip to fret over in a crosswind. The boat is the part that cannot wait all day, and keeping to its hour is what you are really buying.

At the north end Tilloo Cut opens to the Atlantic, and on a falling tide a long white sandbar comes up beside it. Tilloo Pond, a natural harbour on the lagoon side, sits about ten minutes south of the cut.

The southern shore is a national reserve where white-tailed tropicbirds nest, and the Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park lies beyond it. Say what the day is for when you send the date and it is built around the flight.

Miami has more than one business airport, and the right one is whichever is closest to where your party starts the day. The executive field north west of the city is the usual choice and also where a flight home from the islands clears US customs.

Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach work as well and have their own pages. Tell us where you are staying and the airport follows from that, not the other way round.

Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. On this route it matters more than usual, because the last leg is a boat on shallow water.

The hour is fixed when you confirm and can still move afterwards if your plans change, since the aircraft has nowhere else to be and nobody else to wait for. The boat at Marsh Harbour is booked against your arrival, not a timetable, so it moves when the flight does.

No. A charter carries the people you name and no one else. There are no seat numbers, no other group in the cabin and no chance of the aircraft leaving without part of your party. The passenger list can change until shortly before departure: a name added or taken off means we refile, not that you rebook.

Yes, every passenger does, children included. The Bahamas is another country and flying private does not change that. We take the passport details once when you enquire and file for both sides before the flight. Clearance happens at Marsh Harbour on arrival, so the boat to the cay is a domestic trip. The travel documents page lists what each passenger provides and by when.

Yes, and many parties do. The flight is a small part of the day, the boat leg is short, and the return hour can still move while you are on the cay, which is the difference between a charter and a last boat back.

Parties wanting longer rent a house by the pond or across the cut in Hope Town and fly home the day they choose.

It happens less than with anything else we fly on this route, which is the reason for the aircraft. A jet flies over the layer that keeps the others on the ground, and Marsh Harbour stays usable in conditions that shut a short strip.

When a day does have to move, you hear as early as we know, and since the aircraft was held for you it is a conversation, not a wait for the next free seat. The boat ride at the end is the part that depends most on the sky, and on a rough afternoon that is what gets rearranged rather than the flight.

On foot and by boat. There are no roads worth the name, no cars and no carts for hire, and the houses are spread thin along a shoreline that is mostly bush.

The boat that brings you over is also how you reach the sandbar, the pond or the reefs to the south, so tell us at booking how the afternoon should be spent and the boat is set up for it.

That depends on the aircraft and on what the party brings, which is why the answer arrives with the quote rather than before it.

Send the headcount and the luggage when you enquire, and you get back what is free on your date, what each option carries and what each one costs. You pay for the airframe, not per seat, so the cost per person drops as the group grows.

Send the date, the number of guests, the airport that suits your morning and the hour you would like. Tell us whether the day is for the sandbar, the pond or a house on the cay, because that decides what the boat is set up for.

You get back what is free, what it costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.

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.