The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Cat Island
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 end of a forty-eight-mile island it stops at.
Cat Island is long and thin and has three places an aircraft can put down on it, which is unusual for an out island and useful when the aircraft is yours. A scheduled traveller lands where the schedule lands. Your party lands at the end of the island it is actually staying on, and the drive at the far end is minutes instead of most of an hour.
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 the longer crossings we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on from here to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Cat Island Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Cat Island from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and only one of them is about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Cat Island 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.
Over a crossing of roughly two hundred and seventy nautical miles that is what decides whether Cat Island is a long weekend or a day that starts in the dark. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The End of the Island
You say which strip, and the aircraft goes to that one
The island runs forty-eight miles north to south and the airfields sit at opposite ends of it, with a third beside a marina at the southern tip.
Which one you land on is not a detail on an island this shape: it is the difference between stepping off and being there, and an hour on the Queen's Highway. Tell us where you are staying and the flight is planned to the nearest of the three.
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 New Bight the border desk is in the building beside the apron. 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 trip 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.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Cat Island
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 Cat Island
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are 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, and say which end of the island you are staying on. Both of those change what we plan.
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Get Aircraft and Cat Island 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 Early
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 Cat Island from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft sets down at whichever of the island's three fields you asked for, 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 Cat Island CharterLanding at Your End of Cat Island
The First DecisionCat Island is forty-eight miles from tip to tip and the two public airfields sit at opposite ends of it. On a scheduled flight that is not a choice you get to make. On a charter it is the first one we ask you about.
A party staying in the south that lands in the north spends the best part of an hour on the road before the trip starts, and the same hour again at the end of it. Send the resort or the address with your dates and the flight is planned to whichever field is nearest, which on an island this shape is worth more than anything else on this page.
From there the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
New Bight, in the Middle of Cat Island
The Usual One
Most parties use New Bight. It sits roughly halfway down the leeward side, close to the settlement of the same name, and it is the field the island's own traffic runs through.
For a chartered aircraft that has one practical effect: everything on the west coast is a short drive rather than a journey, so a party splitting its days between the beach and the boat does not lose either of them to the road. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it is waiting when the door opens.
Arthur's Town at Cat Island's North End
The Far End
The northern settlement has its own field and its own arrivals desk, and it is a genuinely different trip from the middle of the island. The north is quieter, the beaches emptier, and almost nothing up there is set up for people who turned up unannounced.
That is exactly the case for flying private. A group with a house booked in the north lands in the north, and the hour it would otherwise spend driving the length of the island stays in the day. Say so at the enquiry and the flight is filed for that field instead.
Hawk's Nest at Cat Island's South Tip
The Marina End
At the southern end there is a private strip beside a marina with twenty-eight berths, which makes it the one address on the island where the aircraft and the boat are effectively in the same place. A crew joining a yacht at the dock lands there and walks.
Nothing about that is possible on a schedule, because no schedule serves it. It is possible here for the simple reason that the aircraft is yours and the landing site is a question we ask you rather than one you are told.
Como Hill, the High Point of Cat Island
Worth the Early Hour
The high point of the whole Bahamas is on this island, and at sixty-three metres it is a walk rather than a climb. At the top sits the Hermitage, a stone chapel and cloister built in 1939 by Msgr. John Hawes, with the stations of the cross set along the path up.
It is the one thing on Cat Island that rewards being early, and being early is a thing you can only do if the morning belongs to you.
A charter that leaves Florida at first light has your party up there before the heat, with the rest of the day still ahead. That is not a small difference: a scheduled arrival usually puts you on the road at the wrong end of the afternoon.
Greenwood Beach, Cat Island's Windward Side
Eight Miles of ItDown at Port Howe the Atlantic side opens into roughly eight miles of pink sand, which is long enough that a party can walk for an hour and see nobody at all. The wind that keeps it that way is also why kitesurfers come here rather than to the calm side.
An open-ended return is what makes it usable. The far coast is a drive from the fields in the middle and the north, so a group working backwards from a fixed departure tends to give it up. With your own aircraft the drive is just a drive, and the flight leaves when you get back.
Fernandez Bay on Cat Island's Calm Side
Where Lunch Runs LongThe west coast is sheltered and the water at Fernandez Bay is flat almost every day, so the bay is where most of the island's afternoons end up.
It is close enough to the middle field that a party can be sitting at the water within half an hour of the wheels stopping. A meal that turns into three hours is only a good idea if nothing is waiting on you.
Because the aircraft is held for your party, a late lunch moves the departure rather than ending it, and if the day is built around one specific table it is a fly and dine day. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Carrying On From Cat Island the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Cat Island is often one stop of several rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you 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 trip or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Cat Island day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Cat Island 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 Cat Island 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 Cat Island: Ninety Minutes, One Party and Three Fields
Everything above is the trip. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, which of the three fields the aircraft uses and why that is your call, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Cat Island: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Cat Island 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. We take the passport details once, at the enquiry, and the travel documents go in from our side rather than yours. Both filings are made before boarding. Cat Island clears its own arrivals, which is the part that keeps a short stay short. Two of the three airfields on the island are on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so the aircraft is cleared in where it lands rather than somewhere on the way. None of that is unique to a charter. It happens while you are still at home, and your party brings only its passports. Cat Island is long and thin and has three places an aircraft can put down on it, which is unusual for an out island and useful when the aircraft is yours. 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 Cat Island from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Cat Island
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 Cat Island 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 Cat Island: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Cat Island crossing
A private plane from Miami to Cat Island 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 Cat Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Cat Island
A private private plane from Miami to Cat Island 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 Cat Island is for. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for, and what happens once you are on the island is yours to arrange. An anniversary where the catering on board is part of the surprise rather than an afterthought. 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 Cat Island: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Cat Island 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 which airfield we land at?
Yes, and on this island it is the question worth answering first. Cat Island runs forty-eight miles north to south, with a field near the middle of the west coast, one at the northern tip and a third at the southern end beside a marina.
The one you land at decides whether the drive to where you are staying is minutes or the better part of an hour. Tell us the address or the resort at the enquiry and we plan the flight to the nearest of the three rather than to whichever one is busiest.
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.
On a crossing of this length an early departure is what buys back the afternoon at the far end, so tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
Is anyone else on the flight?
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?
No. Cat Island clears its own arrivals, so the aircraft flies straight there and the border formalities happen 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 your party is cleared in, an onward leg to another island is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport?
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 neighbouring fields take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than two separate 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 trip 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 and the hour you get back at each end. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can you 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.
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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