The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Congo Town
What you book here is the aircraft, not a seat in it. The people on board are the ones you named, and nobody else is added. That decides the rest of the day: when it lifts off, who sits where, and which part of South Andros it comes down on.
Congo Town is a village of about ninety people on the east coast of South Andros, and the airport behind it takes your aircraft directly. Scheduled travel to this end of Andros means a connection through Nassau and a long road or a boat after it. Your own aircraft drops both. From downtown Miami it is roughly 198 statute miles, 172 nautical, across the Gulf Stream and the edge of the Tongue of the Ocean.
The rest sits with us: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party brings bags and passports. It is one of several small plane routes from Miami to Andros, next to the private plane to Andros and to the south of the island. The same aircraft also 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 Congo Town Charter
Miami to Congo Town Private Plane
How a Private Plane to Congo Town from Miami Actually Works
A private plane from Miami to Congo Town is more than the crossing in the middle. This is what each flight brings along, from your first message to the moment your party steps out on South Andros.
Plan Your Congo Town CharterDistance and Block Time
172 Nautical Miles and a Departure Hour You Set
Downtown Miami to Congo Town is about 198 statute miles, 172 nautical, most of it open water until the long low line of Andros comes up on the horizon. What that adds up to in block time depends on the departure point you pick.
The Whole Aircraft
Your Party Alone in the Cabin, Gate to Gate
The aircraft is held for the list you send. Nobody is seated beside you who was not invited, and nobody has to be at the field early on someone else's account. The list can still change the day before. If a name is added or dropped we refile and the flight stays as it was.
The Field at the Other End
South Andros Airport Instead of a Connection Through Nassau
The aircraft comes down at South Andros Airport, which serves Congo Town. If another field on the island suits your stay better, Mangrove Cay or Kamalame Cay up the coast, say so and that is where it goes. More on the island is on the Andros destination page.
Both Borders
Manifest and Passports, Both Borders Filed Before You Fly
Congo Town Airport is on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so your party clears in where it lands and nothing extra is needed on the way. Each passenger carries a passport, children too, and we handle the rest from our side. What counts is set out in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Food in the Cabin and a Car Waiting at the Airport
What the day is for gets arranged before take-off: catering on board, drinks you choose, and a car standing by when the door opens, since there is no taxi line at this airport. A birthday, an anniversary or a proposal is built into the flight as a custom experience rather than squeezed around it.
How Long the Day Runs
One Day on South Andros or a Longer Stay
A day trip goes out and back on the same date, with the aircraft waiting while you are ashore, and a night in a lodge makes it two. The airframe is held for your block, not for a published slot, so the hour you fly home is the one you name that morning.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Congo 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 Congo 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 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 Congo Town from Miami Puts You Down
The plane is where a Congo Town day really begins. A flight across the Gulf Stream, then the pale shelf and the blue holes of Andros coming up under the wing, a village of about ninety people, and a coast road with a ferry dock at one end and boat builders at the other. Below is what a day there can look like.
Plan Your Congo Town CharterClearing In at Congo Town Airport
Straight InThe one fixed point of the day is clearing in, and here it happens at the airport you land at. Congo Town Airport is on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so there is no stop at Nassau before the stop you came for. For a private party that gives the morning back. A flight that must clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it. Here the paperwork goes in before you leave Florida, and the walk from the aircraft into the village is short. After that the south of the island is yours until you say otherwise, and nobody is holding a return time over you.
A Village of About Ninety People
Congo Town
Congo Town sits on the east coast of South Andros, on the one road that joins the settlements of the south. At the 2010 census it counted about ninety residents, so there is no town centre, and that is much of the appeal. Most people who land here are going on to a lodge, a rented house or the flats. Ask for ground transport when you enquire and a car is at the aircraft when the door opens, because no taxi line waits at this airport.
The Ferry Dock at Driggs Hill
Up the Coast
North of the village the road reaches Driggs Hill, where the ferry to Mangrove Cay leaves from. Several places to stay are on that stretch of shore, a short ride from the airport. With your own aircraft the crossing to Mangrove Cay is a choice rather than a given: take the ferry, or fly on and land on the island's own strip. Either way the hour is yours.
Kemps Bay and the Southern Road
Boat Builders and Shell Houses
South of Congo Town the road follows the coast through Deep Creek and The Bluff to Kemps Bay, one of the larger settlements in this part of Andros. Wooden fishing sloops are still built and mended on its beach. It is an easy afternoon from wherever you stay, and the aircraft is not on a clock while you are out. A day built around something more particular is a custom request, and we would rather hear it early.
The Reef and the Wall Past It
The Barrier Reef
Off the east shore runs the Andros Barrier Reef, about 190 miles of it, one of the longest in the world. Beyond the reef the bottom falls away more than 6,000 feet into the Tongue of the Ocean, and the wall where it drops is what divers come to Andros for. Tanks and gear travel with you on the aircraft, so a morning on the reef and an afternoon flight home can share one date.
Blue Holes Within Reach of the Road
Over 180 of Them
Andros holds more than 180 blue holes, inland and offshore, more than anywhere else. Some lie inland, close to the road through Congo Town: deep round pools with fresh water on top and salt water below. A car at the airport takes you there and back in an afternoon. Because the aircraft waits for you rather than for a timetable, a second swim is never the reason to hurry.
Bonefish on the Flats East of the Village
On the Flats
Andros is called the bonefish capital of the world, and the flats along the southern east coast are a big part of that name: wide shallows of sand and sea grass, fished on foot or from a skiff. Anglers keep their own clock, out at first light and back when the tide turns. A chartered aircraft keeps it too. A whole day on the water is a flats fishing day, planned around the tides rather than a departure board.
Room in the Back for Rods and Provisions
Your Own Payload
With one party on board, what goes in the back is a question of weight, not of how many bags. With only small shops on this side of the island, that counts for more than it sounds. Rod tubes, dive tanks, a cooler for the boat, groceries for the house: all of it can travel, within the aircraft's payload on the day. The baggage guidance explains how it works. Anything bigger than luggage is a different service to the same airport, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Congo Town from Miami?
Send the date and how many are coming. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave, and nothing is held until you confirm.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Congo 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 Congo Town: One Party, One Aircraft, Straight to South Andros
Above is the shape of the day. Below is what sits behind it: who is on board, who handles the paperwork, why your one party and one aircraft go straight to Congo Town instead of through a hub, and how late the hour can still change on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Congo Town: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
A window each on a Miami to Congo Town private plane
Nobody else shares the cabin on the way over, so the hour above the water belongs to your party just as the island does later. Downtown Miami to Congo Town is about 198 statute miles, or 172 nautical, and nearly all of it is open water. Close to the end the Andros Barrier Reef runs along the east shore for about 190 miles, and beyond it the seabed falls more than 6,000 feet into the Tongue of the Ocean. The island itself holds over 180 blue holes. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Because the aircraft is yours, so is the choice of field it leaves from, and so is the hour it does so. The cabin is your party's alone, so the crossing goes the way you want it to, from the first minute over the Gulf Stream to the last. what travels with you is arranged before boarding.
Private Plane to Congo Town from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Congo Town
A charter has no timetable. The day is planned around the hour you give us. You say when you want to leave, when you want to be standing in Congo Town and which Miami field suits your morning. The aircraft is your party's for the day, so all three are yours to decide, not a departure someone else fixed, and a change the week before is one message to us. Check-in is half an hour before take-off and nothing more. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go in while you watch, and the passenger list carries your names alone. Nothing in the morning depends 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 documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. The crossing is worth watching, too. The windows are large and the aircraft flies low, so everyone has a view of the water changing colour as South Andros comes up.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Congo Town: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Congo Town crossing
A private plane from Miami to Congo Town leaves one country and enters another, then comes home the same way. Those two crossings are the part that goes wrong when nobody has prepared them. Entering the Bahamas takes a declaration sent from Florida, clearance at a port of entry on arrival and a filing for the US return before you start back, and that filing decides where you may land on the way home. On a Crown Air charter the crew files all three. Every passenger needs a passport, children included, as the travel documents guidance explains. What may travel with you is in the baggage guidance. The landing point for the return reaches you with the quote, settled before anyone boards. A departure moved by weather follows the weather and delays policy. If someone joins or drops out before the flight, the crew refiles. One message to us does it, and the day stays as planned, with no forms left for your party to fill in.
Flying Private Plane from Miami to Congo Town: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate at Congo Town
A private plane from Miami to Congo Town usually starts with a reason: a birthday, a proposal, a retirement, a long weekend with the friends who fish. The crossing is short enough that the reason, and not the travel, fills the day. That is what a private plane to Congo Town is for. Congo Town Airport is a port of entry, so your party clears in where it lands and the day begins at once. We hold the aircraft, the hour and whatever you asked for, and the rest belongs to you. Send the date, the number of guests and when you would like to go. Some groups come over for the day and sleep at home. Others stay in a lodge on South Andros and choose the date they fly back. It is the same charter either way, and the whole group travels on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers come along. All of it is ready before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Congo Town: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Congo Town actually include?
The aircraft and its crew for your party alone, both border filings, and whatever ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats in it, so the price is the same whether four people fly or eight.
Catering, a car at the airport 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 move afterwards if your day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
Most parties leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early departure and a late return are both normal requests. 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 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 Congo Town?
No. Congo Town Airport is on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so the aircraft flies straight there and your party clears in where it lands.
Going through a larger airport first is what scheduled travel to South Andros usually involves, and it is the step a private charter removes. Once you are cleared in, an onward leg to Mangrove Cay, the Exumas or another island is domestic.
Can we land somewhere on Andros other than Congo Town?
Yes. Andros has several airfields, and because the aircraft is yours you choose which one it lands at. Mangrove Cay and Kamalame Cay are on the island, and so is the north. Tell us where you are staying and the flight is planned to the field closest to it.
Do I need a passport for Congo 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 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.
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 drop us at a dock on the coast?
Not on wheels. A private plane flies from airfield to airfield. If the drop-off needs to be a dock, a marina or a beach on Andros, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can take 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 airport or a guide for the flats, 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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