The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Bimini
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 where it puts you down at the far end.
Bimini is the closest Bahamian island to Florida, and it has a strip, so there is no reason to send you the long way round. Some islands have no runway and have to be reached over Nassau or on a boat. Here the aircraft goes straight there, which is the whole point of having it to yourself.
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 the shortest international crossing we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft also flies on to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Bimini Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Bimini from Miami Actually Works
Three things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and none of them are about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Bimini 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 child who turns out to be coming after all. We refile and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
The 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 to Bimini 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, not through an airport
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 South Bimini the border desk is in the building beside the strip. 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 belongs to you in the same way the way out 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.
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.
After You Land
What happens on the ground at Bimini is arranged before you leave Florida
A golf cart at the dock, a car on the south island, a table held somewhere for the afternoon: all of it is set up with the flight rather than found on arrival.
On an island this size that is the difference between an hour spent well and an hour 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 Bimini
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 Bimini
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Bimini 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. On this route a strip 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 or a golf cart waiting when you land, ground transport to your hotel 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 Bimini from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft sets down at the southern end of South Bimini, beside the border desk, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no return departure to work back from and no group to keep together, 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 Bimini CharterLanding Where the Border Desk Already Is
The South EndClearing in is the one fixed point of the day, and on this island it takes place in the building next to where you stop rolling. The Bahamian customs authority lists South Bimini Airport among its ports of entry, so there is no leg before the leg you wanted. What that buys a private party is the morning.
A flight that has to clear somewhere else first loses an hour and a landing to it, and an hour is the difference between a day trip and an overnight. Here the paperwork is filed before you leave Florida and the desk keeps daytime hours, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of it is usually a matter of minutes.
From there the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
South Bimini, Before the Ferry
The Quiet Half
The south island is low, green and largely residential, and most visitors cross it rather than stay on it. There are a handful of places to eat, a beach or two that are usually empty, and the Bimini Sands stretch on the west side.
Parties who are here for a boat rather than a hotel often never go further: the marina side of South Bimini is a short ride from the strip, and a charter that lands at ten has people aboard well before lunch. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it is waiting when the door opens, which on an island this size is worth more than it sounds.
Crossing to Alice Town
A Short Boat
North and South Bimini are separate islands with a channel between them, and the crossing is a small ferry that runs on demand rather than on a timetable. It is minutes, not a journey. This is the step where a private schedule shows itself. A group tied to a scheduled return works backwards from it all day and leaves the north island early to be safe.
A chartered aircraft has no such clock: you cross when you want to, stay as long as the afternoon deserves, and come back across when you are finished. If the crossing is the part you would rather skip altogether, a seaplane to Alice Town puts you on the north island directly and is a different page and a different aircraft.
King's Highway on North Bimini
The Busy Side
Alice Town sits on North Bimini and one road runs the length of it. The hotels, the bars, the marinas and the dive shops are all on or just off it, so almost every party ends up here at some point in the day.
Golf carts are the transport and they are worth arranging in advance rather than on arrival, particularly at a weekend. Ask for one with the flight and it is at the dock.
What there is to do once you are on the road belongs on the Bimini destination page rather than here, and a day built around lunch somewhere specific is a fly and dine day. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
The Sapona, Standing in the Shallows
Worth an Hour
A concrete freighter ran aground south of the island a century ago and never left. Most of the hull is still above water and the rest sits in a few feet of it, which makes it one of the rare wrecks anyone can snorkel without a tank.
It is a boat ride from either island and it is the single most requested detour on this route. Slot it in when you send your dates and the day is built around it, because with your own aircraft the only question is what time you want to be back at the strip.
Cat Cay and Gun Cay
Also a Port of Entry
Both lie a short run south of Bimini and both come up when a party is here for the water rather than the town. Gun Cay is open, and Honeymoon Harbour on its north end is the beach where the rays come in shin deep over pale sand. Cat Cay is a private club, so the marina and the houses are for members and their sponsored guests.
For everyone else it is a stop seen from the water. It does appear on the same Bahamian ports of entry list as South Bimini Airport, which matters if the whole trip is built around the club not around Bimini, because a charter can then clear in there instead.
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. Golf clubs, dive tanks, rods, a cooler for the boat, 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 strip, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Bimini is often the first stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk at South Bimini, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like.
Grand Bahama, 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 a Bimini getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Bimini 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 Bimini 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 Bimini: One Party, One Aircraft, One Runway
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft goes straight to the island instead of round it, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Bimini: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Bimini 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 water between is about fifty nautical miles wide and almost none of it has anything on it. South Bimini has its own airstrip and the aircraft uses it, and the same holds the length of the chain, from Bimini down to the small airfields of the Exumas and the Abacos, so a day can carry on to the next island instead of doubling back to a hub first. 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. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice and not a given. 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 Bimini from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Bimini
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 Bimini 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 Bimini: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Bimini crossing
A private plane from Miami to Bimini 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 Bimini: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Bimini
A private private plane from Miami to Bimini 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 Bimini is for. At the far end the desk sits in the building beside the strip, which is the part that keeps a day trip a day trip. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for; the rest is yours. Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to leave. 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 Bimini: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Bimini 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 golf cart 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 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.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Bimini?
No. South Bimini has its own strip and its own border desk, so the aircraft flies straight there 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 at Bimini, an onward leg to another island is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport for Bimini?
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 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?
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 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 strips in the Abacos and the Exumas 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?
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 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 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 day 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 day has anything else in it, a car at the dock or a table booked 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.
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