The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Exuma
Chartering is not ticketing. Nobody sells you a seat and puts a stranger in the one beside it. The aircraft itself is what you book. From that one fact the rest follows: who boards, what hour the door closes, and which piece of the Exuma chain you step out onto.
Great Exuma lies about 276 nautical miles out of Miami, roughly an hour and three quarters in the air, and the runway at Moss Town has the border desk beside it. Islands with neither are reached over Nassau or on a boat. Here the aircraft goes to the island itself.
Everything between the two ends belongs to us: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party carries passports and a bag and turns up shortly before boarding rather than hours ahead of it.
Two ends, one aircraft, and one party on it. Everything under this is what that changes.
The Exumas are one of the longer crossings on our list of small plane routes from Miami, and the same aircraft carries on from there across the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Exuma Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Exuma from Miami Actually Works
The water between Florida and the Exumas 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 Exuma CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list for your Exuma charter is written by you
We fly the names you send us and nobody is added afterwards. There is no seat map to be allocated around and no reason to be early to protect anything.
Parties heading for the Exumas usually travel together for a reason anyway: a family, a crew joining a boat in Elizabeth Harbour, six friends who took one house between them on Great Exuma. If somebody drops out the day before, we refile and the flight is unchanged.
The Clock
Departure is something you decide rather than something you find
A scheduled service leaves at the hour it publishes. A charter leaves at the hour you name, inside daylight and inside what the crew may fly. On a crossing this length that is what makes a single day realistic: an early departure puts your party on Great Exuma with the middle of the day still ahead of them.
The Terminal
You walk to the aircraft instead of walking through an airport
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida you park, cross the apron and board, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. At the far end the border desk is inside the single building beside the runway. Nothing is queued for and nothing is carried further than the door.
The Return
The way home to Miami is yours in the way the way out was
On a scheduled service the return is an hour somebody else chose months ago. On a charter it is the hour you say on the morning, and it can still move while your party is out on the water.
That is the difference between a day in the Exumas and a schedule to work backwards from: the boat can come in late, lunch at the yacht club can run on, and the aircraft is still sitting where you left it.
The Weather
Weather is the single 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, the flight is rebooked rather than flown, and the weather and delays policy sets out what that means for a booking.
Because the aircraft was held for your party and nobody else, moving it is a conversation instead of a place in a queue.
After You Land
What waits on the ground in the Exumas is arranged before you leave Florida
A car waiting at the apron, a boat held at the dock, a table kept for the afternoon: all of it is set up alongside the flight rather than hunted down on arrival.
In a chain of small settlements that is the difference between an hour spent well and an hour spent asking. Say what the day should look like, with ground transport priced next to the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Exuma
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 Exuma
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Exuma 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 in the chain you want to end up. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. With a runway and a border desk at the far end we can usually build the day around it.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We look at what is free on your date and send back the aircraft that suit your party, with seats, baggage and flight time for each. You are pricing the airframe rather than a headcount, so four people pay what eight would.
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Confirm and Pay
You choose the aircraft, and we fix the pickup point and the landing site, on Great Exuma or a strip further up the cays. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a car or a cart waiting, ground transport onward to a dock or a hotel. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and inclusions come back.
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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 Exuma from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at Moss Town on Great Exuma, a short walk from the border desk, and from that moment nothing about the day is scheduled. There is no published return to work backwards from, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Exuma CharterClearing In Where You Actually Land
Moss TownComing into the country is the one fixed point of the day, and on Great Exuma it happens in the building beside the spot where you stop rolling. Exuma International 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 clears somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it, and an hour is what separates a day trip from an overnight. Here the filing is made before you leave Florida. After that the chain is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over your party.
Great Exuma If the Day Stays South
George Town
George Town is the working town of the southern end and it is a short drive from the apron. One road does most of the work, and Elizabeth Harbour runs along the front of it with Stocking Island lying across the entrance.
Parties here for a boat rather than a hotel often go no further than the harbour, and a charter that lands mid morning has people aboard before lunch. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it is waiting when the door opens.
A Second Leg Up the Exuma Chain
Domestic Once Cleared
The Exumas are a line of islands rather than one, and the settlements that most people are actually heading for sit well north of the border desk. Once your party is through it, 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 cays is a decision at the enquiry, and it costs the day far less than a boat would.
Staniel Cay on Your Own Hour
The Middle of the Chain
Staniel Cay sits in the middle of the Exumas and has a strip of its own, so so many days on this route end there rather than at the southern end. The settlement is small, the yacht club is the centre of it, and most of what visitors come for is a short boat ride away.
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 strip when the day is finished, and two hours later than planned is a message rather than a rebooking. What there is to do on the water belongs on the Staniel Cay page rather than here.
The Boat Out From Staniel Cay
Pigs, Grotto and Sharks
Big Major Cay with its swimming pigs, Thunderball Grotto and the nurse sharks at Compass Cay all lie within a short run of Staniel Cay, and almost every party asks for at least one of them. What an owned aircraft changes is when you go, not whether you go.
Tour boats leave on their own timetable and everybody arrives at once. A charter lets you take the early boat and reach the grotto ahead of the crowd, because there is no flight home to be back for except the one you named. A day built entirely around the water is a beach picnic and cay hopping day.
Norman’s Cay, Black Point and Farmer’s Cay
Strips of Their Own
The northern half of the chain has its own small fields, none of which keeps a border desk and none of which appears in anybody's timetable. Norman’s Cay at the top end, Black Point and Farmer’s Cay in between. They are reachable precisely because the aircraft is not shared.
Nobody else has a claim on the routing, so the landing site is a line in your enquiry. Bitter Guana Cay with its rock iguanas and the sandbars of Pipe Creek sit in the same water, and a day across several of them is what island hopping means on this route.
What Rides in the Back of the Aircraft
Your Payload to Spend
When one party has the aircraft, what goes in the hold is a question about weight rather than a rule about the number of bags. On a chain where the shops are small and far apart, that is a practical difference. Rods and reels, a cooler for the boat, dive gear, a case of something for the house: it travels, within the payload for the day.
Because nobody else is aboard, the trade sits between your own passengers and your own load. The baggage guidance sets out how that works. Anything beyond luggage is a different service on the same strip, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with heavy bags.
Naming the Hour You Come Home
The Return Leg
The way back is the half of the day that a schedule usually owns. On a charter it is the hour you say on the morning, and it can still move while your party is out on the water. It can also stop being a way back at all.
An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string legs together in any order: Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros and Grand Bahama all take the same type. A single island and home again is an Exuma getaway day trip; several in a row is a longer Bahamas day. The full list sits on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane to Exuma 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 Exuma 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 Exuma: One Party, One Aircraft, One Border Desk
Everything above is the day itself. What follows is the detail underneath it: who is allowed on board, who handles the border, why the aircraft can stop at a settlement instead of a hub, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
None of what follows is about the aircraft. All of it is about who decides.
Private Plane Miami to Exuma: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Exuma 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. George Town lies about 276 nautical miles from Miami, which puts it roughly an hour and three quarters away in the air. A charter fits an occasion for the same reason it fits a family: the cabin belongs to one party, so the day can be shaped around the people in it not around a timetable that somebody else set months ago. Great Exuma lies about 276 nautical miles out of Miami, roughly an hour and three quarters in the air, and the runway at Moss Town has the border desk beside it. The Exumas are one of the longer crossings on our list of small plane routes from Miami, and the same aircraft carries on from there across the rest of the Bahamas. 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 Exuma from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Exuma
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 Exuma 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. Great Exuma lies about 276 nautical miles out of Miami, roughly an hour and three quarters in the air, and the runway at Moss Town has the border desk beside it. 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 Exuma: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Exuma crossing
A private plane from Miami to Exuma 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 Exuma: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Exuma
A private private plane from Miami to Exuma 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 Exuma is for. A charter fits an occasion for the same reason it fits a family: the cabin belongs to one party, so the day can be shaped around the people in it not around a timetable that somebody else set months ago. 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 Exuma: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Exuma actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and whatever ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats on it, so the price is the same whether four people travel or eight.
Catering on board, a car or a cart at Moss Town and onward transport to a dock or a hotel are added when you ask for them and come back priced alongside 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 crossing of this length.
The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if the day changes, because the aircraft has nowhere else to be and there are no other passengers to inconvenience. Name the hour you actually want rather than the one you assume is on offer.
Is anyone else on the plane?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat allocation, no second party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group. The list can also change up to shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Exuma?
No. Exuma International on Great Exuma has its own runway and its own border desk, so the aircraft flies straight there and clears in where it lands. Routing through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually requires, and a private charter removes that step. Once you are cleared in, an onward leg is domestic.
Can the aircraft land at Staniel Cay or further up the cays?
Yes, once your party has cleared in. Staniel Cay, Norman's Cay, Black Point and Farmer's Cay all have their own strips and none of them keeps a border desk, which is exactly why the first landing is made at Moss Town.
After that the aircraft is free to put you down where the day is actually happening. Tell us at the enquiry which part of the chain you are heading for and the routing is built around it.
Do we need passports to fly to Exuma?
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 sets out 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, so there is nothing to hand in.
How long is the flight from Miami to Exuma?
George Town on Great Exuma is about 276 nautical miles from Miami, which is roughly an hour and three quarters in the air on the aircraft we fly this route with. Staniel Cay, in the middle of the chain, is closer. The exact figure for your day depends on the departure point and the aircraft, and it comes back with the quote rather than as an estimate.
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 return to a hub first, and the strips in the Abacos and further up the Exumas take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as 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. Moving it is a conversation rather than a queue.
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 boat 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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