The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Andros
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat next to strangers, you are booking the aircraft. That one difference decides everything else about the day: who is on board, what hour it leaves, and which of the four fields on the island it rolls to a stop on.
Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas and it is close to a hundred miles from the top of it to the bottom, so the field matters more here than almost anywhere else we fly. A scheduled service lands where the schedule lands. Your own aircraft lands where your bed is, and on an island this long that can be the difference between arriving and starting a second journey.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag, and turns up shortly before the boarding time rather than hours ahead of it.
It is one of several small plane routes from Miami, and the same aircraft carries straight on to the rest of the Bahamas after you have cleared in.
Plan Your Andros Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Andros from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and none of them are about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Andros CharterThe Manifest
A private plane to Andros carries the names you send and nobody adds to them
A charter carries the people you name and no one else. There is no seat map to be assigned around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything.
It also means the party can change up to the day before: a name added, a name dropped, a child who turns out to be coming after all. We refile and the flight is the same flight.
The Field
Which of the four Andros fields you land on is your line, not ours
The island runs about a hundred miles from San Andros in the north to Congo Town in the south, and there are four places on it a plane can put down. On a schedule, one of them is chosen for you.
On a charter you say where you are staying and the answer comes back with the shortest drive at the far end already worked out. That is the single biggest thing a chartered aircraft is worth on this island specifically.
The Clock
The Andros departure time is a decision rather than a listing
Scheduled service leaves when it leaves. A charter leaves when you want it to, inside daylight and inside what the crew is legally allowed to fly. That is why a same day return works at all: you are back before the afternoon builds rather than waiting on the next available departure. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal on both ends of the Andros run
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida you park, walk to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already done from the departure point. At the far end the border desk sits in the building beside where you stop rolling. There is no terminal to cross, no queue to join, and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
The Return
The way home from Andros belongs to you the way the outbound leg does
A return leg on a scheduled service is the hour somebody else published. On a charter it is the hour you name on the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island. That is what turns a crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: lunch can run long, the boat can come back late, and the aircraft is still there.
After You Land
What happens on the ground at Andros is arranged before you leave Florida
A car at the field, a lodge transfer down the coast road, a skiff and a guide waiting on the flats at first light: all of it is set up with the flight rather than found on arrival.
On an island where the settlements sit far apart that is the difference between a morning spent well and a morning spent waiting. Tell us what the day is meant to look like when you send the dates and it comes back arranged, with ground transport and anything else you asked for priced alongside the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Andros
The aircraft is booked for your party alone, so the departure point is yours to pick rather than something a timetable decides. These are the four we fly from around Miami. Select one to see exactly where it sits.
Miami Executive
Miami Executive Airport, TMB, Kendall
Kendall-Tamiami in the south west of the county, a general aviation field where the distance from the car to the aircraft is measured in steps. Nobody is waiting on a boarding call, because the only people on the flight are the ones who booked it. It is the shortest drive from the south and west of Miami-Dade.
Opa-locka Executive
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, OPF
The executive airport north west of the city, where your group waits in a private terminal and walks out when it is ready. Most island days leave from here, and the same building clears the return into the United States. There is no check-in queue, so the morning is built around your day.
Miami International
Miami International Airport, MIA
A pickup rather than a base, for a party already off an airline flight that wants the island leg from the same airport. Arranged per flight and confirmed with the operator before it is quoted. It is the one departure point that costs you time, because a commercial field runs to its own order.
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Fort Lauderdale Executive, FXE
Fort Lauderdale Executive, chosen when the group is north of Miami and the drive south would eat the hour the flight saves. The return clears in its own building there, so a day need not end where it began. The aircraft positions to meet you.
How to Charter
How to Book Before Flying Private Plane from Miami to Andros
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Andros Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and where on the island you are staying. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. Four fields serve Andros, so the name of your lodge or house is usually enough to pick the right one.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send the aircraft that fit your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group pays the same as a full one.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the pickup point and the field on Andros. Then everything around the flight. Catering on board, a car or a guide waiting when you land, ground transport to your lodge or back to the field. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and everything included come back to you.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land right at your destination, and enjoy the day.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Andros from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at the field you named, the border desk is in the building beside it, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no return departure to work back from, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route actually ask for, in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Andros CharterLanding at the Andros Field You Picked
Your ChoiceFour fields serve this island and a charter uses whichever one suits the trip. San Andros is the northern one, Andros Town at Fresh Creek sits in the middle, Clarence A. Bain serves Mangrove Cay and South Andros lies just outside Congo Town.
On a scheduled service the field is decided for you by whatever was flying that morning. Here it is a line in the enquiry. Say where you are staying and the answer comes back with the shortest drive on the far side already worked out.
The Stop Everyone Else Only Passes Through
Not Your Day
A great many aircraft touch down on Andros every morning without anybody on board meaning to be here. The island is where the run between South Florida and the Exumas clears its border, so parties get off, queue, and get back on for the second leg. A charter that is actually going to Andros does none of that.
You clear in and you have arrived. It is the same desk and the same stamp, and the difference is that the rest of the day happens here rather than an hour further south. Where the chain does keep going, so does your aircraft, and that is the island hopping version of the same booking.
Fresh Creek and the Lodges Around It
The Middle
Andros Town sits on Fresh Creek roughly halfway down the island, and most of the places people book a week at are within reach of it. Kamalame Cay lies to the north of it, Tiamo well to the south, and a string of smaller lodges and rental houses in between.
What a chartered aircraft changes here is the shape of the first day and the last one. Landing in the middle of the island instead of at one end can turn a two hour transfer into twenty minutes, and a lodge transfer booked with the flight is at the field rather than found there. Ask for ground transport when you send the dates.
San Andros and the North End
The Near End
San Andros is the field closest to Florida and it serves the settlements at the top of the island, Nicholls Town and Lowe Sound among them. It is also where a party heading for the northern flats wants to be, because the water starts a few minutes from the road.
Guides here work to the tide rather than to a timetable, which is exactly the case for having the aircraft to yourself. A morning that turns out to be worth staying for costs a message, not a change fee. What there is to fish for and see belongs on the island page rather than here.
Congo Town and the South
The Far End
South Andros is the quiet end and the field outside Congo Town is the way into it. It is close to a hundred miles from San Andros, and there is no road that runs the whole way, so this is the one arrival on the island that nobody should get wrong.
A party staying down here on a scheduled ticket often lands in the north and spends the rest of the day getting south. On a charter the aircraft simply goes to Congo Town, because it is carrying nobody who wanted to be anywhere else.
Mangrove Cay Between the Bights
No Road In
Water cuts Andros into three, and Mangrove Cay is the piece in the middle. You cannot drive onto it from either side, which makes the aircraft the practical way in rather than a luxury. Clarence A. Bain is the field there.
Immigration is handled through Andros Town rather than on Mangrove Cay itself, so a flight coming in from Florida clears there first and then hops across. That is two landings in one morning, and on a charter it is one arrangement rather than two bookings: tell us at the enquiry and it comes back as a single day.
What Comes With You
Weighed, Not Counted
When the aircraft carries one party, what goes in the back is a conversation about weight rather than a rule about bag counts. That is a practical difference on this route more than a philosophical one. Rods and reels, a cooler, wading boots, dive tanks, a case of something for the house: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
Because nobody else is on board, the trade is between your own passengers and your own load, and you decide where it falls. The baggage guidance sets out how that works. Anything larger than luggage is a different service on the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Andros is where the whole corridor clears its border, so a party that has come through the desk here is already domestic for everything that follows. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like.
Nassau, Harbour Island, Grand Bahama and Staniel Cay and the Exumas all take the same type, and none of them require going back to a hub first. That is the shape of a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is an Andros getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Andros from Miami?
Send the date, the number of guests and where on the island you are staying. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave, and nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Andros 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 Plane Charter Miami to Andros: One Party, One Aircraft, Four Fields to Pick From
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft goes to the field you named, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Andros: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Andros private plane
The crossing is not dead time between two airports. The cabin is yours for it, so what is below is part of the day rather than something to sit through. The north end sits about 143 statute miles from downtown Miami, 124 nautical. Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas and it is close to a hundred miles from the top of it to the bottom, so the field matters more here than almost anywhere else we fly. There is no seat assignment, nothing is oversold, and there is no version of the day where the aircraft leaves without part of your group because a connection somewhere else did not hold. What is unique is that the work behind it happens while you are still at home, and the only thing asked of you is to bring the passports you already have. The cabin belongs to your party and nobody else, so the crossing is yours to spend as you like. what travels with you is arranged before you board.
Private Plane to Andros from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Andros
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be standing on Andros and which water in the city suits your morning. The aircraft belongs to your party for the day, so all three are your decision rather than a departure somebody else set, and a change the week before is a message to us. Half an hour before the lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go on in front of you, and the list for that flight carries your names and nobody else's. Nothing about the morning waits on a stranger. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. And the crossing is a reason in itself. The windows are deep and the aircraft crosses low, so there is room for everybody to sit and watch the water change instead of taking turns at one of them.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Andros: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Andros crossing
A private plane from Miami to Andros crosses an international border twice in a day. It is the part that goes wrong when nobody files it in advance. Entry into the Bahamas asks for a declaration filed from Florida, clearance at a port of entry on arrival and a US return filed before you leave, which is what sets where you may land coming home. On a Crown Air charter the crew files all three. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. That same filing sets where you land coming home: a return from the islands clears at None, so a day that began on the water finishes on a ramp and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. If the party changes before the flight, the crew refiles. A name added, a name dropped: that is a message to us rather than a problem for you.
Flying Private Plane from Miami to Andros: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Andros
A private private plane from Miami to Andros is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend away with the people who matter. The flight is short enough that the occasion, not the travelling, is what the day is about. That is what a private plane from Miami to Andros is for. A group of eight who booked one lodge between them and want to arrive together, on the way out and on the way back, instead of trickling in over two days. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for; the rest is yours. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening. Others stay on and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same charter, and the whole group travels together 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. Everything is in place before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Andros: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Andros actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and the ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats on it, so the price covers the flight whether four people travel or eight. Catering, a car or a guide on arrival and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time to Andros?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on this route. 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.
In practice most parties leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early departure and a late return are both normal requests rather than exceptions. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
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 because a connection did not hold. It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Which Andros field will we land at?
Whichever one is closest to where you are staying. Four fields serve the island, from San Andros at the top through Andros Town at Fresh Creek and Clarence A. Bain on Mangrove Cay down to South Andros near Congo Town.
Because the aircraft is yours, that is a line in your enquiry rather than a decision somebody else made. Send the name of the lodge, the house or the marina and the answer comes back with the shortest drive at the far end already worked out.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Andros?
No. The aircraft flies straight to the field you picked and clears in where it lands. Connecting through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually requires, and it is the step a private charter removes.
The same is true further down the chain: once you are cleared in on Andros, an onward leg to another island is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport for Andros?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft 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.
How early do we need to be at the airport for the Andros flight?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to cross and no queue to join at either end, because both ends of this route are general aviation. You park, walk to the aircraft and go. The outbound border filing is already done from our side before you arrive, so there is nothing to hand in and nothing to print.
Can we change the passenger list after booking the Andros charter?
Yes, up to the day before in most cases. A name added or dropped means we refile the manifest, and the flight is otherwise unchanged. Tell us as early as you can, because the paperwork is what needs the notice, not the aircraft.
Can we fly on from Andros to another island the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on down the chain rather than return to a hub first, and the onward fields in the Exumas and the Abacos take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than two flights.
What if the weather turns on the day of the Andros flight?
The day moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather move a flight than fly it badly. You are told as early as we know, and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that works for your party. Because the aircraft was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat.
Is a private charter to Andros cheaper than scheduled flights for a group?
It depends on the size of the party and what the day is worth to you. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per person falls as the group grows, and a party of six or eight is where the comparison usually turns.
What does not show up in a fare comparison is the drive you avoid by landing at the right end of a hundred mile island. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane collect us from a marina or a hotel dock on Andros?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs airport to airport. If the pickup needs to be a marina, a lodge dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can collect you there.
Can I bring a pet on a private plane 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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