The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Chub Cay
A charter is not a ticket. Nobody unknown ends up in the row behind your family. What you have bought is the aircraft, and every line further down this page is a consequence of that: the names aboard, the hour the door shuts, the strip it rolls to a stop on.
Chub Cay is the southernmost of the Berry Islands, roughly 153 miles out of Miami, and the airfield beside the marina keeps its own customs and immigration office. Islands with neither are reached over Nassau or by boat. Here the aircraft goes to the island itself and the border is done where it stops.
The middle of it belongs to us: choosing the departure point in Miami, holding the aircraft and crew, lodging both sets of border paperwork and gathering the travel documents the Bahamas wants to see. What is asked of your side is a passport each, a bag each, and an arrival at the field a short while before boarding.
One aircraft, one group aboard it, two ends we look after. The rest of this page is what that buys.
Among our small plane routes from Miami this is one of the quicker hops over the water, and the aircraft that brings you keeps going from here into the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Chub Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Chub Cay from Miami Actually Works
The water between Florida and the Berry Islands is the same water whoever flies across it. What a charter changes is everything wrapped around the crossing, and none of it is a property of the aircraft.
Plan Your Chub Cay CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list for your Chub Cay charter is written by you
You send the names, we fly them, and the list is shut once it reaches us. There is no seating plan anybody has to be early for.
Groups bound for the Berries are usually travelling as a unit to begin with: four anglers who put a tournament week in the diary in January, a family with a house booked at the marina, six people meeting a boat at the dock. Somebody drops out the night before and we simply file it again.
The Clock
Departure is something you decide rather than something you find
Timetables publish an hour and you fit around it. Here you say the hour and the aircraft fits around you, within daylight and within what the crew may fly. Over a stretch of water this narrow that turns the calculation upside down: leave early enough and your party is standing on Chub Cay while most of the day is still unspent.
The Terminal
You walk to the aircraft instead of walking through an airport
Neither end of this crossing has a concourse in it. On the Florida side you leave the car, walk out and step aboard, the outbound paperwork already lodged from whichever departure point suits the morning. At the island end the officers keep an office in the single building by the strip. Bags travel as far as the door and no further, and nothing anywhere involves standing in line.
The Return
The second half of the day answers to you, not to a timetable
Scheduled travel hands you a return that somebody fixed months before you booked. Yours is decided on the morning and stays negotiable after that, including while the boat is still out.
It is the whole difference between spending a day in the Berries and working backwards from a deadline: the billfish can run late, the table at the marina can turn into a long one, and your aircraft has not moved an inch.
The Weather
One part of the day refuses to be arranged, and that is the sky
Everything else here gives. The sky does not, and a day flown badly is worse than a day flown next week.
We call you the moment the forecast is clear enough to act on, the crossing is moved rather than attempted, and the weather and delays policy spells out how that lands on the booking. Nothing was sold to anybody else, so rescheduling is a phone call and not a waiting list.
After You Land
What waits on the ground at Chub Cay is arranged before you leave Florida
The cart at the apron, the boat held on the dock, the table kept back for the afternoon: those are settled next to the flight, not chased once everyone is standing on the tarmac. Somewhere this small rewards that heavily, because there is nobody to ask and nothing to walk to. Describe the shape of the day and ground transport is quoted beside the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Chub Cay
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
The Steps to Flying Private Plane from Miami to Chub Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Chub Cay Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Tell us the dates, the headcount, where you are coming from and whether the day finishes at the marina or somewhere north of it. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. Put the hour you want to leave in the same message. A strip and an officer at the far end mean we can usually hold that hour.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is unbooked on the date and reply with the airframes that fit the group, each one listed with its seats, its baggage figure and its time in the air. The price hangs on the aircraft, not on how many people climb into it.
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Confirm and Pay
Once you have picked one we lock the pickup field and the landing site, either Chub Cay itself or a strip further north. Around that goes whatever the day needs: food on board, a cart or a boat standing by, ground transport on to the dock or the house. You sign it off, you pay, and the boarding time, the field and everything included arrive.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Early
Nothing to check in to and nobody to queue behind. Be at the field half an hour ahead, and the rest of it is a take-off, a landing at the place you actually wanted, and a day.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Chub Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The wheels stop at the bottom of the Berry Islands, a short walk from the officer who stamps you in, and after that the day has no structure except the one you give it. Nothing is published to work backwards from. So read what follows as a list of options, not a programme.
Roughly in the order groups tend to ask for them.
Plan Your Chub Cay CharterClearing In Where the Wheels Stop
The FieldComing into the country is the one fixed point of the day, and here it happens in the building beside the spot where the aircraft parks. Chub Cay is an airport of entry, so there is no leg before the leg you wanted. What that buys a private party is the middle of the day.
A flight that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it, and an hour is what separates a day out from an overnight. Here the filing was made before anyone left Florida. After that the chain is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over your party.
The Marina Side, Minutes From the Apron
Where the Day Starts
Almost everything on this island sits within a few minutes of the field. The marina is the centre of it, the water in front of it is protected, and the walk from the aircraft is short enough that luggage rarely needs a second thought.
Parties here for a boat rather than a bed often go no further than the dock, and a charter that lands mid morning has people aboard before lunch. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and the cart is waiting when the door opens.
A Second Leg Across the Berries
Domestic Once Cleared
The Berry Islands are a scatter rather than a single place: some thirty islands and more than a hundred small cays running north from here. Once your party is through the border desk, every leg after that is domestic.
That is where an aircraft held for one party stops being a way of arriving and starts being a way of moving. A second hop up the chain is a decision at the enquiry, and it costs the day far less than a boat would.
Great Harbour Cay on Your Own Hour
The Northern End
Great Harbour Cay lies at the top of the chain and keeps a strip of its own, so a good number of days on this route end up there rather than at the southern end. Bullocks Harbour is the main settlement of the Berries and sits beside it.
What a charter changes here is the shape of the afternoon. A group tied to a published return leaves early to be safe. Yours does not: you go back to the field when the day is finished, and two hours later than planned is a message rather than a rebooking.
The Deep Water Off the South Shore
Why Most Parties ComeThe Tongue of the Ocean runs along this end of the chain and drops to something like six thousand feet, which is the reason the island is spoken of as the billfish capital of the Bahamas. Deep water sits a short run off the dock rather than half a morning away.
An owned aircraft changes when you go out, not whether you go. A boat that wants to be on the grounds at first light needs a party that slept nearby or flew in on its own clock. What there is to catch and where belongs on the Chub Cay page rather than here.
Nassau and Andros in the Same Afternoon
Short Hops
Nassau lies roughly 37 miles east of here and Andros sits across the water to the south west, both of them close enough that an afternoon can hold one of them and still bring your party home.
This only works because nobody else has a claim on the routing. A second island is a line in your enquiry rather than a second booking, and a day across several of them is what island hopping means on this route.
What Rides in the Hold
Your Payload to Spend
One group in the aircraft turns the hold into an arithmetic problem rather than a policy. Nobody counts your bags; somebody weighs them. Where the nearest proper shop involves a boat, that distinction earns its keep. Tackle, a cooler packed for the boat, tanks and regulators, a case of wine for the house: all of it flies, so long as the numbers add up for the day.
Since the cabin holds nobody else, the balance between passengers and cargo is entirely an internal matter. The baggage guidance explains how we work it out. Past a certain point it stops being luggage and becomes freight, which is a separate service into the same strip: island logistics, not a charter with a heavy load in the back.
Saying When You Come Home
The Return Leg
Going home is normally the part of a trip that a timetable owns outright. Here it is whatever hour you say on the day, and it stays movable while the boat is still out. It does not even have to point at Florida.
An aircraft that is yours until the evening will fly the legs in whatever order you want: Nassau, Harbour Island, Exuma and Grand Bahama all take the same type. A single island and home again is a Chub Cay getaway day trip; several in a row is a longer Bahamas day.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane to Chub Cay from Miami?
Send the date and the number of guests. You get back 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 Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay: The Aircraft, the Hour and the Field You Name
Above this line is the day as you would live it. Below it is the machinery: which names may board, whose job the paperwork is, why a strip in a settlement is as reachable as a hub, and how far into the afternoon the hour can still shift on a flight to the Bahamas.
Not one paragraph below concerns the aircraft. Every one of them concerns who gets to decide.
Private Plane Miami to Chub Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Chub Cay 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. It is about 133 nautical miles from the Miami shoreline and almost none of that distance has anything on it. An occasion and a family want the same thing from an aircraft: that the cabin is theirs, so the shape of the day answers to the people in it instead of to a schedule published last autumn. What you have bought is the aircraft, and every line further down this page is a consequence of that: the names aboard, the hour the door shuts, the strip it rolls to a stop on. You get back the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave, and nothing is held until you say so. Private here is not a rating, a cabin class or a standard of catering. 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 Chub Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Chub Cay
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 Chub Cay 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. Eight friends splitting one house who would rather walk in together than trickle in all afternoon, with the extras you asked for standing ready the moment the door swings open. 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 Chub Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Chub Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Chub Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Chub Cay 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 Chub Cay is for. An occasion and a family want the same thing from an aircraft: that the cabin is theirs, so the shape of the day answers to the people in it instead of to a schedule published last autumn. 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 Chub Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Chub Cay actually include?
The airframe, the crew, both sets of border paperwork, and any ground arrangements you name at either end. What is priced is the aircraft itself, which is why a group of four pays what a group of eight pays.
Food on board, a cart waiting at the field, a lift on to the dock or the house: each is added on request and quoted in the same reply as the flight.
Can we choose our own departure time?
You can, as long as it sits in daylight and inside the hours the crew may legally fly. This is the single biggest thing you are buying. The hour is fixed at confirmation and stays movable after it, since the aircraft is not due anywhere else and no other passenger is affected. Ask for the time you genuinely want rather than the one you expect to be available.
Is anyone else on the plane?
Never. The cabin holds the people you listed and stops there. No seats are allocated, no second group shares the crossing, and there is no way for the aircraft to leave with part of your group missing. Names can also be swapped in or out until shortly before departure, which for us means filing the manifest again.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Chub Cay?
No. There is a runway on the island and an immigration officer beside it, so the crossing runs Florida to Chub Cay and clears in on arrival. Hubbing through a bigger airport is what scheduled travel out here normally forces, and chartering removes it. Anything you fly after that counts as a domestic leg.
Can the aircraft land at Great Harbour Cay or somewhere else in the Berries?
Yes, once you are stamped in. Great Harbour Cay keeps its own strip at the top of the chain, and Nassau, Andros and the Exuma fields are all short legs from here. The first landing goes where the officer is; after that the aircraft can put you down wherever the day is really happening. Mention the destination when you write and we route around it.
Do we need passports to fly to Chub Cay?
Every passenger needs one, children included. A charter crosses an international border like anything else does. We take the details at the enquiry stage and file for both countries ahead of departure, so nothing has to be printed at home or handed across a counter on the day. The travel documents page lists what each person supplies and when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
Half an hour is plenty. Neither end has a concourse to walk through or a line to stand in, because both are general aviation fields. Park, walk out, board. Your outbound filing went in days ago, so there is nothing left to present.
How far is Chub Cay from Miami?
Roughly 153 miles, one of the shortest hops we fly into the Bahamas and among the simplest to fit into a single day, and the island sits at the southern tip of the Berry Islands chain. Nassau lies about 37 miles further east.
The actual time in the air depends on which field you leave from and which aircraft you take, and that figure arrives with your quote rather than as guesswork here. Short as it is, the crossing still leaves the United States and enters another country, so the paperwork is the same as it would be for a far longer leg.
Can we change the passenger list after booking?
Usually right up to the day before. Somebody joining or dropping out means we resubmit the manifest and nothing else about the flight alters. Give us as much warning as you can manage, though: it is the filing that wants the notice, not the aeroplane.
Can we fly on to another island the same day?
Frequently, yes. Your aircraft has no obligation to head back to a base between legs, and the strips through the Berries, on Andros and down the Exumas all accept the same type. Describe the full day when you enquire and it is priced as one flight plan instead of two bookings.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Then the day moves. This is the one part of a charter that stays rigid, and a crossing flown badly is worse than a crossing flown next weekend. We tell you the moment the picture is clear and rebook onto a date that suits the group. Rearranging it is a conversation, not a place in a queue, because the aircraft was never promised to anybody else in the first place.
How do we start?
Write with the date, the headcount, the field you want to leave from and your preferred hour. Back comes a list of what is unbooked, the cost of each airframe, the boarding time and everything included, with nothing reserved until you agree to it.
Anything else the day needs, a boat held at the dock or a table kept for the afternoon, goes in the same message and is quoted next to 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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