The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Atlantis Bahamas
A charter is not a ticket. You are booking the aircraft rather than a seat on somebody else's departure. That one difference decides the rest of the day: who is on board, and what hour it puts your party down on New Providence.
Atlantis is not a hard place to reach. It is a hard place to reach at the hour you actually wanted to be there. The resort stands on Paradise Island, and the airfield that once sat on the island itself closed in 1999. Every aircraft now lands twelve miles away on New Providence and crosses the bridge, so what is left to decide is the clock, and on a charter the clock is yours.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants beforehand. Your party brings passports and a bag, and turns up shortly before boarding rather than hours ahead of it.
It is roughly 185 miles of open water, one of several small plane routes from Miami, and the same aircraft carries on to the rest of the Bahamas once your party is cleared in.
Plan Your Atlantis Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Atlantis Bahamas 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 Atlantis CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list is written by you and nobody adds to it
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 grandparent who decides at the last minute that the water park is worth it after all. We refile and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
The arrival hour is a decision rather than a listing
Getting to Nassau is not the difficulty on this route. Landing there when it suits your party is. A published departure sets your morning for you and hands you an arrival hour to work around; a charter turns that round, so you name the hour you want to be at Atlantis and the aircraft is built backwards from it. If the morning slips, it waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal, not through an airport
In Florida you park, walk to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already done from the departure point. At the far end your party comes off on the general aviation side of the field rather than into the arrivals hall, which is the part guests notice first. Nobody is queueing behind a wide body that landed four minutes before you.
The Car
The last twelve miles are arranged before you leave Florida
The resort is reached by road from the airfield, over the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge, and it is the one leg of the day that is fixed. What a charter changes is that the car is ordered against a landing time you chose, so it is standing there when the door opens. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it comes back priced with the aircraft.
The Return
The way home belongs to you in the same way the way out does
A return leg on a published service is the hour somebody else chose. 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 last hour in the water can become two, and the aircraft is still there.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a charter does not make more flexible
Everything else on this page bends. Weather does not, and we would rather move a day than fly it badly. You hear from us as early as we know, and the flight is rebooked rather than flown. Because the aircraft was held for your party and nobody else, moving it is a conversation and not a queue for the next available seat.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Atlantis Bahamas
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 Atlantis Bahamas
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Atlantis 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 you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. Tell us the hour you would like to land rather than the hour you think is available. On this route that is the part worth being specific about: everything else is built around it.
- 02
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 airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group costs the same as a full one.
- 03
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, the car waiting on the general aviation side, ground transport over the bridge to whichever door you want. Flowers if the day is a special one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and everything included come back.
- 04
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 at the hour you named, and the day is yours.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Atlantis Bahamas from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling on the general aviation side of the field on New Providence, twelve miles and one bridge from the resort, and from that moment nothing about the day is published anywhere. What follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Atlantis CharterWalking Off Onto the Private Side
No Terminal
A chartered arrival does not use the arrivals hall. Your party comes off on the general aviation side of the field, walks to a desk with its passports and walks back out again, and the filing that sits in front of that desk was made before you left Florida.
The clearing itself is the same clearing everybody does. What is different is that you are not doing it behind four hundred people who landed in the same ten minutes, and that there is nothing to collect afterwards from a belt.
Choosing the Hour You Land
The Quiet Window
This is the decision the whole page turns on. Ask for the hour you actually want rather than the one you assume is on offer, because on a charter it is genuinely a request and not a fiction.
Parties who want a full day tend to land mid morning, with the afternoon still in front of them. Parties coming for a dinner cross late and skip the middle of the day. Neither is an early or a late option off a list; both are the time you said.
Crossing to Paradise Island
Twelve Miles of Road
The resort stands on Paradise Island and the field is on New Providence, so the last part of the journey is a bridge. About twelve miles, and roughly half an hour depending on the traffic through town. It is the only leg of the day with a fixed shape, and what a charter removes is the waiting at either end of it. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it is standing there when the door opens.
Going Home When the Evening Ends
Your Return
The return is the half of the day most people give away without noticing. On a published ticket it is decided weeks in advance and everything after lunch is arranged around it.
On a charter it is named on the morning and can move again while you are still on the island, inside daylight and crew duty. That is what makes a same day crossing worth doing: the last swim need not be the last swim, and a long lunch is a message, not a missed flight.
One Party From the Car Park to the Lobby
Together
Groups going to a resort are going there together on purpose, and the usual way of getting there takes them apart: different fares, different connections, two arrivals four hours apart and somebody waiting in a lobby for the rest.
A chartered aircraft carries the whole party as one movement. One cabin, one walk through arrivals, one car on the far side, one arrival time. For a family with young children that is the difference the day is bought for.
Adding an Out Island to the Same Charter
Your Itinerary
Once your party is cleared in, every leg after it is domestic and the aircraft is still yours. That is the point at which the resort stops being the whole trip and becomes the first stop of one. An aircraft that belongs to you can string those legs together in any order.
Harbour Island, Staniel Cay and the Exumas, Andros and Grand Bahama all take the same type, and none send you back through a hub. That is the shape of an island hopping day; a single stop and back is an Atlantis getaway day trip, and the full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
When the Day Starts on a Boat
Alongside
A good share of the parties we fly here are not checking in at all. They are joining a boat, and the marina on the resort side takes vessels large enough that the crossing has to be timed to the boat rather than to a hotel.
That is awkward on a published ticket and simple on a charter, because the aircraft is scheduled around your movement. Tell us when the boat expects you and the transfer from the aircraft is arranged to meet it.
Bringing Children and Grandparents on the Same Aircraft
Every Age
Three generations travelling to one resort is the most common shape of party on this route, and it is the shape that the ordinary way of getting there suits worst: long walks, a change of gate, a connection that assumes everybody moves at the same speed.
A charter removes the walking and the waiting rather than the distance. One boarding, one cabin, one arrival, and a car booked with the flight. Anything beyond that, a seat fitted for a small child or a table held for the evening, is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Atlantis Bahamas from Miami?
Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to land. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Atlantis Bahamas 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 Atlantis Bahamas: The Crossing, the Bridge and Your Own Hour
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, which field the aircraft is allowed to choose, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Atlantis Bahamas: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Atlantis Bahamas 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 resort lies roughly 185 statute miles from downtown Miami, just under 161 nautical and almost every one of those miles is open water. For a resort crossing that last point does more work than it looks like: the whole reason a group is going to Atlantis together is that it wants to arrive together. The payload is yours, so the trade between passengers and weight is too, so what you bring is a conversation here rather than a policy. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants beforehand. 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 Atlantis Bahamas from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Atlantis Bahamas
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 Atlantis Bahamas 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. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice and not a given. 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 Atlantis Bahamas: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Atlantis Bahamas crossing
A private plane from Miami to Atlantis Bahamas crosses an international border twice in a day. 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. 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 Atlantis Bahamas: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Atlantis Bahamas
A private private plane from Miami to Atlantis Bahamas 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 Atlantis Bahamas is for. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for, and what happens once you are through the door is yours to arrange. A charter suits an occasion like it suits a family: the cabin belongs to one party. 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 Atlantis Bahamas: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Atlantis 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, the car waiting when you land and onward transport over the bridge are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.
Can we choose our own arrival time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on this route, because getting to the Bahamas is easy and getting there at the right hour is not.
The time is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, since the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience. Most parties land in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early arrival and a late return are both normal requests rather than exceptions.
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.
Can the plane land at Atlantis itself?
No, and neither can anybody else's. Paradise Island had its own airfield until 1999 and the ground it stood on is now part of the resort. Every aircraft lands on New Providence and crosses the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge, which is roughly twelve miles and takes about half an hour by road. What a charter changes is not the distance but the hour you cover it and the fact that the car is already there.
Do I need a passport for Atlantis?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We take the details once at the enquiry and file for both sides. 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 on the Florida side, because you leave from 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?
Yes, up to the day before in most cases. A name added or dropped means we refile, 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 to another island the same day?
Often yes. Once your party is cleared in, every leg after it is domestic and the aircraft is still yours, so it can carry on down the chain rather than return to a hub first. The fields in the Exumas, on Eleuthera and in the Abacos take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than two trips.
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 it 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 flying commercially 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 hour you get back at each end of the day. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane collect us from the marina or a hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs airport to airport. If the pickup or the arrival needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can meet you there.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and the hour you would like to land. 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 day has anything else in it, a car at the aircraft or a table held for the afternoon, 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.
Next Step
Ready to Book a Private Plane to Atlantis Bahamas from Miami?
Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to land. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and what is included, before anything is booked.
- 24/7 support
- Fast response
- No obligation
Explore
