The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Arthur's Town
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 where it puts you down at the far end.
Arthur's Town sits near the northern tip of Cat Island and has its own airport, so the aircraft can take your party to the village end of the island instead of the middle of it. Most arrivals on Cat Island land at New Bight, about 22 nautical miles further south, and drive the rest of the way up the island. With the aircraft to yourselves, the landing follows where your party is staying, and at this end of the island that is Arthur's Town.
Everything between is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings passports and a bag. Cat Island is one of the longer crossings we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on to the rest of the Bahamas. All our other departures are listed under Private Plane Charter from Miami. The same crossing can also be booked by helicopter, small plane and private jet.
Plan Your Arthur's Town Charter
Miami to Arthur's Town Private Plane
How a Private Plane to Arthur's Town from Miami Actually Works
A Miami to Arthur's Town private plane charter involves more than the flight down the length of the Bahamas. Here is what every flight includes, from your first message to the moment you step out at the top of Cat Island.
Plan Your Arthur's Town CharterDistance and Block Time
About 255 Nautical Miles and an Hour You Choose
Downtown Miami to Arthur's Town is about 255 nautical miles in a straight line, one of the longer Bahamian crossings we fly, so the hour you leave decides how much of the first day is left on the island. What that runs in block time follows the departure point you pick and the stop to clear in on the way.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party, One Airframe, and Nobody Added to It
The aircraft is held for the names you send, so there is no seat map, nobody in the row behind and no reason to arrive early. The list can still change the day before: a name added, a name dropped. We refile and it is the same flight.
The Field at the Other End
No Arrivals Hall at Arthur's Town
Arthur's Town has its own small airport close to the village, with no arrivals hall between the aircraft and the road. The Arthur's Town destination page covers the north end itself; this page is about getting there on your own terms.
Both Borders
Manifest, Passports, and One Stop to Clear In
Arthur's Town airport is not on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so the crew plans one landing on the way to clear in, for example at New Bight on the same island or at Nassau, whichever suits the routing on the day. Passengers carry a passport, children included, and the rest is on our side. What counts as valid is in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations, and What Travels to Arthur's Town
Whatever the trip is for is organised before the aircraft leaves: catering on board, premium drinks, a car waiting at the other end. A birthday, an anniversary or a proposal is planned into the flight as a custom experience rather than around it.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip to Multi-Day Arthur's Town Itinerary
At this distance most parties stay at least one night, and the aircraft either waits while you are ashore or comes back for you on the day you name. It is held for your block rather than a published slot, so the hour home is the one you choose.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Arthur's Town
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 Arthur's Town
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
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Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and where you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. On this route the airport at the far end means we can usually work to it.
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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 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 pickup point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight. Catering on board, a car waiting when you land, ground transport to your house or back to the airport. Flowers if the day is a special one. 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 Arthur's Town from Miami Puts You Down
The plane is where an Arthur's Town day really begins. A long flight down the Bahamas, and then the north end of Cat Island: a small village on the Queen's Highway, Peter's Cave in the limestone beyond it, and the rest of the island running south towards New Bight. Below is what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Arthur's Town CharterA Small Airport at the North End of Cat Island
Where You LandBecause the aircraft is yours, the landing is the one your party picks, and for anyone staying at the north end of Cat Island that is Arthur's Town. Its small airport sits close to the village, so the drive at the end of the flight is a short one. Cat Island has more than one usable airport along its length. New Bight lies about 22 nautical miles to the south and is where most arrivals land, and Hawks Nest is about 30 at the southwest tip. A scheduled arrival goes where the timetable goes. A charter goes to the airport nearest the house, and the others stay an option, on the private plane to Cat Island and the private plane to Hawks Nest.
The Clearance Stop on the Way to Arthur's Town
One Planned Landing
Arthur's Town is the right place to end the flight, but it is not where the Bahamas clears you in. The current list of ports of entry names New Bight and Smith's Bay for the airports on Cat Island, and Arthur's Town only for its public dock. So the crew plans one landing on the way, for example at New Bight on the same island or at Nassau, about 101 nautical miles from Arthur's Town, whichever fits the routing on the day. The paperwork is filed from Florida before you board and the crew handles the stop itself. Then the same aircraft carries your party on to the north end. On the way home the same applies in reverse: the US return is filed before you leave the island, and the field you land at in Florida is the one named in that filing, settled with the quote.
Arthur's Town, a Village of About 150
The Quiet Top
Arthur's Town is small: about 150 people at the last census, a settlement on the Queen's Highway near the northern tip of Cat Island. Sidney Poitier grew up in the area, and the village keeps the unhurried pace of a place few visitors reach. That is the reason most parties choose it. A group with its own aircraft is not looking for a terminal town. It wants the beach house, the empty road and nobody else's schedule, and the north end of the island gives all three. What there is to see and do is on the Arthur's Town destination page rather than here. Because nobody else is on board, the aircraft does not stop for other passengers on the way up or down the island. The village end of Cat Island is where it was always going, and that is the whole idea.
Peter's Cave Beyond Arthur's Town
Worth an Hour
At the north end, beyond the village, the limestone holds caves. Peter's Cave is the one people ask about, a set of caverns where bats roost in the dark. It is the kind of stop a fixed schedule cuts first. With the aircraft yours for the day, the only question is when you want to be back at the airport, so an hour underground fits around lunch rather than against a departure board. Ask for a driver with the flight and the morning is arranged before you land. Wear shoes that can handle rough rock and bring a torch, and tell us at the enquiry if the cave is the reason for the trip, so the day is planned around it rather than squeezed in.
A Car Waiting on the Queen's Highway
Arranged, Not Found
One road, the Queen's Highway, runs the length of Cat Island, about 48 miles from end to end, and Arthur's Town sits on it near the top. On an island this quiet, transport is something to arrange before you land rather than look for after. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and a car is there when the door opens. A day built around lunch somewhere particular is a fly and dine day, and anything more specific is a custom request we would rather hear early than late.
Rake 'n' Scrape in Arthur's Town
A Date Worth Flying For
Every year in early June, Arthur's Town hosts Rake 'n' Scrape, a festival named after the Bahamian music of the same name, and for that weekend the quiet north end of Cat Island has a full programme. That is when a private schedule earns its keep. A party with its own aircraft does not compete for seats: it picks its hour in and its hour out, and the whole group arrives together. Send the dates early so the aircraft is held for your party, and say if the weekend is a celebration as well.
South to New Bight and Mount Alvernia
Further South
Cat Island runs south from Arthur's Town for most of its length. Mount Alvernia, at 63 metres the highest point in the Bahamas, rises in the south of the island, a long way down the Queen's Highway from the north end. A party that wants both ends does not have to drive the island twice. The aircraft that brought you can hop down to New Bight, about 22 nautical miles away, so the south is a short flight rather than a long road. Say so at the enquiry and it is part of the plan. The island as a whole is on the Cat Island destination page.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Order of Stops
Arthur's Town is often one stop on a longer trip rather than the whole of it. Once your party has cleared in on the way, every leg after that is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like. Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros 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 an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is an Arthur's Town getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Arthur's Town from Miami?
Send the date and the number of guests. 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 Arthur's Town 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 Arthur's Town: One Party, One Aircraft, the Top of Cat Island
Everything above is the trip. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board when one party has the aircraft, who does the paperwork, why it lands at the top of Cat Island rather than the middle, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Arthur's Town: Flying Low Over the Reef to Cat Island
Room enough and a window each on an Arthur's Town 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. Miami to Arthur's Town is about 255 nautical miles of open water and low islands, and for most of it nobody else is in sight. A party flying to the top of Cat Island is usually travelling together for a reason: a family taking over one beach house for the week, friends who come back every June for the music, a crew joining a boat already anchored off the north end. 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 asks for before you leave Florida. 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, so nothing has to be bought or found on the way. The crossing ends where your party is staying, at the north end.
Private Plane to Arthur's Town from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Arthur's Town
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 in Arthur's Town and which field around 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. On a crossing this long the hour matters more than usual. Leave early and the top of Cat Island is yours before lunch, with the whole afternoon still ahead, and the return is set for the day you choose rather than the next available seat. Change it the week before and it is one message to us, and the same holds for the hour you fly home from the top of Cat Island.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Arthur's Town: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on an Arthur's Town crossing
A private plane from Miami to Arthur's Town crosses an international border on the way out and again on the way home. Entry into the Bahamas asks for a declaration filed from Florida and clearance at a port of entry on arrival. Arthur's Town airport is not on that list, so the crew plans one landing on the way to clear in, for example at New Bight on the same island or at Nassau, whichever suits the routing, and handles it there. The US return is filed before you leave, which is what sets where you may land coming home. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. 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, and the stop on the way stays the same.
Flying Private Plane from Miami to Arthur's Town: Milestone Days and Cat Island Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate in Arthur's Town
A private plane from Miami to Arthur's Town is booked when the trip is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a week away with the people who matter. The aircraft belongs to one party, so the occasion starts at the departure point rather than on arrival. Some parties time it for Rake 'n' Scrape, the music festival held in Arthur's Town in early June, and arrive together instead of in threes across two days. Others come for a quiet week at the north end of Cat Island and nothing else, with the beach to themselves for most of the day. 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 Arthur's Town: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Arthur's Town actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, the stop to clear in on the way, 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 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?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on a crossing this long. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your plans change, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
Most parties heading to the north end of Cat Island leave in the morning so the first afternoon is spent on the island. 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. 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.
Do we have to change planes in Nassau to reach Arthur's Town?
No. Nobody changes aircraft. Arthur's Town airport is not a port of entry, so the crew lands once on the way to clear in, at New Bight, at Nassau or at another port of entry that suits the routing, and then the same aircraft carries your party on to the north end of Cat Island.
Changing planes at a hub is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually asks of you, and it is the step a private charter removes.
Do I need a passport for Arthur's Town?
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 and by when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to cross and no queue to join, because you leave from a general aviation field. 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?
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 land somewhere else on Cat Island instead?
Yes. The aircraft is yours, so the landing follows where your party is staying. New Bight lies about 22 nautical miles south of Arthur's Town and Hawks Nest about 30 at the southwest tip. If the house is further down the island, say so at the enquiry and the flight is planned to the airport nearest to it.
What if the weather turns on the day?
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 cheaper than scheduled flights for a group?
It depends on the size of the party and what the time 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 connection you skip on the way to the north end of Cat 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?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs airport to airport. If the pickup needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same trip runs on a seaplane instead and we can collect you there.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and the hour you would like. You get back the aircraft that are free, what each one costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
If the trip has anything else in it, a car at the airport or a table booked for the evening, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
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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Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to leave. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and what is included, before anything is booked.
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