The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Crooked Island
A charter is not a ticket with your name on it. You are not buying seats on an aircraft that was going anyway, you are buying the aircraft. On a run this far south that one difference decides the whole day: who is aboard, what hour it leaves Florida, and which strip it uses at the far end.
Crooked Island lies at the southern end of the Bahamas, about 431 miles from downtown Miami, and it is one of the islands published timetables treat as an afterthought. Nothing flies into it from outside the country.
Every scheduled service is domestic, it runs out of Nassau on fixed days of the week, and for anybody starting in Florida that turns one morning into a two day exercise. The island has hard strips of its own, so a chartered aircraft simply goes there.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the filings on both sides of the border and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for 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 to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Crooked Island Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Crooked Island from Miami Actually Works
Three things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and on a leg this long every one of them counts for more than it would on a short hop.
Plan Your Crooked Island CharterWho Flies
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, nobody in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything.
The list can also 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 Hour
Departure is a decision rather than a published time
Scheduled service leaves when it leaves, and to this island it leaves on two named days out of another country's capital. A charter leaves when you want it to, inside daylight and inside what the crew is legally allowed to fly. That is what makes a short visit to Crooked Island possible at all rather than a week blocked out around a timetable.
No Terminal
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 the far end you step out onto a small field with a handful of buildings on it. There is no terminal to cross, no queue to join, and nothing for your party to carry further than the door of the car waiting outside.
The Way Back
The return hour belongs to you the same way the outbound one does
A return leg on a published service is the hour somebody else chose months ago. On a charter it is the hour you name on the morning, and it can still move while you are on the island. Lunch can run long and the boat can come back late, and the aircraft is where you left it because it has nothing else to do that day.
Weather
Weather is the one thing a charter does not bend
Everything else on this page moves. Weather does not, and we would rather shift 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 instead of a wait for the next available seat.
On the Ground
What waits at the strip is arranged before you leave Florida
A vehicle at the aircraft, a boat held for the afternoon, a table somewhere for four: all of it is set up with the flight rather than found on arrival.
On an island with this few people that is the difference between an afternoon spent well and an afternoon 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 priced alongside the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Crooked 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 Crooked Island
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Crooked Island 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 on the island you actually need to be. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. Out here the answer is usually yes.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send the aircraft that suit your party. Seats, baggage and flying time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so the figure per person falls as the party grows.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the pickup point and the field at the far end. Then everything around the flight. Catering on board, a vehicle waiting when you land, ground transport on to the house or the lodge. 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 where you asked to land, and the day is yours.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Crooked Island from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft comes down on the island itself, and from the moment the door opens the day has no timetable in it. There is no published return 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 out here actually ask for, in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Crooked Island CharterChoosing Your Field Before the Day Is Planned
Your CallCrooked Island has two hard strips, and which one the aircraft uses is a question the charter answers rather than the timetable. Almost nobody who arrives here on a published service gets asked. Colonel Hill sits above the settlements in the middle of the island.
The other lies out at the north western tip past Landrail Point, where the land narrows to a point with water on either side of it. Between the two is most of the island and a road that takes better than half an hour to drive.
So the useful question at the enquiry is not which airport you want. It is where your party will be sleeping, eating and getting on a boat, and the landing is worked out backwards from that. Say it early, because it is the one decision on this trip that is awkward to change on the morning.
The Strip Beside Where You Sleep
The North Western Tip
The field at the north western end is a private one and it sits on the same piece of ground as the lodge and the marina it belongs to. A party that lands there walks from the aircraft to the room. Written down that sounds like a detail.
At the end of a long leg, with rods, bags and a cooler between four people, it is most of the evening. Ask for ground transport anyway and a vehicle meets the aircraft, because the flats and the beaches on the west shore are still a drive from the point.
Arriving Without the Night in Nassau
One Leg
Nothing scheduled reaches this island from outside the Bahamas. Everything published is domestic, it leaves Nassau on fixed days of the week, and a party starting in Florida has to get itself to Nassau first and then wait for one of those days to come round.
In practice that is a night at each end of the holiday in a city nobody came to see. A charter removes both. The aircraft leaves Florida in the morning and is on Crooked Island the same morning, which is the difference between a long weekend here and a week spent mostly getting here.
French Wells and Gun Point
Pirates and a Cannon
The channel at the southern end of the island is named after the wells French pirates dug there. They used the shelter of the cays and the shallow water to sit out of sight and wait for ships coming up the passage.
The British answer was a fort at Gun Point, and the remains of the fortifications are still on the shore with an old cannon among them. It is a boat run rather than a walk, and it is the sort of afternoon a party only gets to when the flight home has not already been printed by somebody else.
Castle Island, Off the Southern Tip
By Boat Only
South of Acklins, at the bottom of the whole group, a lighthouse has stood on Castle Island since 1867. It marks the far end of the passage, and it was a lookout for the people the fort was built against long before it was a light. Nobody lands there.
It is a boat and a long one, the rocks are full of birds, and the reason to go is that almost nobody does. With an aircraft waiting on your own say so, a day built around it stops being ambitious and becomes a decision about breakfast.
Spring Point, If the Week Crosses the Bight
Acklins
Acklins lies across the Bight and has a field of its own at Spring Point. For a party splitting a week between the two islands that is a second landing rather than a second trip, and it turns a long, shallow boat run into twenty minutes in the air.
It is also the answer when the water is not cooperating. The crossing between the islands is open and thin, and a charter that can simply fly over it is not waiting on anybody else's boat to be free.
A Vehicle, a Boat and Somebody Expecting You
Booked With the Flight
The part of a journey out here that goes wrong is almost never the flying. It is the hour after the aircraft stops, when a party stands on a quiet apron working out who is driving and whether anybody knew they were coming at all. On a charter that hour is set up before you leave Florida.
A vehicle meets the aircraft, any boat is held against your arrival instead of against a clock, and the house knows what time to expect you. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and the chain from the cabin door to the front door is one booking.
Adding a Second Island to the Same Trip
Long Island and San Salvador
Once your party is in the country, every leg after the first one is domestic, and that is what makes a second island cheap in time even when it is not cheap in money. Long Island, San Salvador and Cat Island all take the same type and all sit within an easy hour of here.
An aircraft that belongs to you can string them in whatever order suits the week, which is the shape of an island hopping trip or a longer Bahamas day; one island and back is a Crooked Island day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Crooked 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 Crooked 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 Crooked Island: Nobody Else on Board, No Stop in Nassau
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board and nobody else, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft goes to the island instead of setting your party down for a stop in Nassau, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Crooked Island: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Crooked 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. Crooked Island lies at the southern end of the Bahamas, about 431 miles from downtown Miami, and it is one of the islands published timetables treat as an afterthought. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the filings on both sides of the border and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. The crew files outbound for Florida and inbound for the Bahamas, so there is nothing to hand over at a counter and nothing to print at home. 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. 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 Crooked Island from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Crooked 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 Crooked 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. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice rather than 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 Crooked Island: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Crooked Island crossing
A private plane from Miami to Crooked 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 Crooked Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Crooked Island
A private private plane from Miami to Crooked 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 Crooked Island is for. A week for eight who all want to arrive together and leave together, which on an island this quiet is the difference between a reunion and a logistics problem. 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 Crooked Island: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Crooked Island actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, the filings on both sides of the border, 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 vehicle 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 a route this long. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if the day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
Most parties leave early and come back in the late afternoon, but an earlier start and a later 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 something earlier in the day did not hold.
It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to go through Nassau to reach Crooked Island?
Not on a charter. Published service to the island is domestic and runs out of Nassau on fixed days, which is why most people arrive here having spent a night somewhere they did not want to stay.
A chartered aircraft flies the whole way in one leg and lands on the island, and the day you save at each end is usually the reason parties charter this route at all.
Which airfield do we land at?
That is your decision and it is worth making early. Colonel Hill sits above the settlements in the middle of the island. The strip at Pittstown Point, out by Landrail Point at the north western tip, puts you at the far end of the island instead, and the drive between the two is more than half an hour.
Tell us where you are actually staying and the landing is worked out backwards from that. Spring Point on Acklins is a third option if the week takes you across the Bight.
Do I need a passport for Crooked Island?
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 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 it is the paperwork that needs the notice rather than the aircraft.
Can we fly on to another island the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on rather than turn back, and the strips at Long Island, San Salvador and Cat Island take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one plan rather than as 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 shift 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 wait 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 on what the days at either end are worth to you. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the figure per person falls as the group grows, and a party of six or eight is where the comparison usually turns.
What never shows up in a fare comparison on this route is the overnight each way that scheduled travel adds. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
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 vehicle at the strip or a boat 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.
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