The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Farmer's Cay
Chartering is not buying a ticket. Nobody sells your party a seat and then fills the rest of the cabin around it. You take the aircraft.
What follows from that is the whole shape of the day: who is on the list, what hour it leaves Florida, which field in the chain it comes down on, and how long it is willing to sit there before it takes you home.
Little Farmer's Cay is not quite two miles of green in the middle of the Exumas, home to around sixty people, with a short strip at its north west end. That strip is why this reads as a day rather than a journey.
Getting to the middle of the chain on a published schedule means a larger airport, a wait and a light aircraft onward. A charter keeps it to one clearance stop and one short leg after it, and the crew handles the stop while your party sits still.
Everything around the flying sits on our side too: the field you leave from in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both filings at the border and the travel documents the Bahamas wants to see before your group leaves Florida.
What is left for you is a passport each, a bag, and being at the field half an hour before the boarding time. This is one of a number of small plane routes from Miami across to the Bahamas.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Farmer's Cay from Miami Actually Works
Six things move the moment one party holds the whole aircraft, and none of them is about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay CharterThe Manifest
The list you send is the list that flies
A chartered flight carries the names you give us and stops counting there. No seat map, no stranger across the aisle, no reason to stand at a gate early to protect anything. The list also stays open: somebody joins a week out, somebody drops two days out, a teenager decides on the Thursday. We refile, and it is still the same aircraft at the same hour.
The Clock
Departure is an hour you name rather than one you find
Published service into the Exumas leaves when the airline says, and into the middle of the chain it often does not leave at all on the day you want. Yours leaves when you say, inside daylight and inside the hours the crew may legally fly. A slow morning costs you nothing, because the aircraft is not needed anywhere else and there is nobody else aboard to inconvenience.
The Terminal
Neither end of this route has a concourse to walk
In Florida your party parks beside the apron, walks out and boards, with the outbound filing already sent from the departure point. At the far end there is a strip and the road that leads off it into the settlement. Nothing to queue for, nothing to collect, and nothing your group carries further than the car.
The Clearance Stop
One landing on the way in, and the crew does the talking
Farmer's Cay is not a port of entry, so the aircraft touches down somewhere that is before it finishes the run. Which one depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date, and it comes back with the quote rather than being promised here. Whichever it turns out to be, your party stays with the aircraft and the crew deals with the desk.
The Strip on the Cay
The last leg ends on the island rather than near it
Once the paperwork is behind you the final hop is short. The strip runs across the north west end of the island, the same end the settlement and the yacht club dock are on. Because the aircraft belongs to your group for the day, it is the strip you asked for and not the one an airline happens to serve.
The Return
Going home is the same decision as coming out
Coming back on a published schedule means taking whatever hour was printed months ago. Here it is named on the morning, and it is still open while you are standing in the water.
A long lunch, a wind that drops and turns the bank to glass, one more swim before the light goes: none of that is a flight missed, because the aircraft is yours and has nowhere else to be that day.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Farmer's 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
How to Book Before Flying Private Plane from Miami to Farmer's Cay
Booking an aircraft works nothing like booking a seat. Four steps, and the first is the only one you do.
Plan Your Farmer's Cay Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Give us the date, how many are travelling, which field you would rather leave from and where the day is going. Tell us the hour you would like to leave.
Tell us the hour you actually want, not the one you assume is on offer. If a cart should be waiting at the strip, say so here: it is arranged in the same conversation.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on that date and come back with the aircraft that fit the party, each with its seats, its baggage allowance and its flight time. The figure is for the airframe rather than for heads, so the price does not move with the headcount.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we fix the field you leave from and the one you land on. After that come the things around it: something to eat on board, ground transport at either end, flowers if the date is that kind of date. You sign it off, you pay, and the boarding time 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 Farmer's Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling on the cay itself and from that point nothing about the day is scheduled. No return departure to count backwards 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 Farmer's Cay CharterA Cart Standing Where the Strip Ends
The First Ten Minutes
The strip runs across the north west end of the island and one road goes from it into the settlement. On a cay this size that is a short distance, and it is still nicer covered on wheels with the bags in the back than on foot in the middle of the day.
Parties who arrive on somebody else's timetable spend the first part of the holiday asking around for a lift. Parties on their own aircraft do not, because we knew the hour weeks ago and so did the person with the cart. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and the whole chain from apron to door is one booking.
The Yacht Club at the North End
Where the Afternoon Slows
The Farmer's Cay Yacht Club sits at the north west end with a dock, shore power and water, moorings off it, a restaurant and a bar, and rooms to rent if the day turns into a night. A second house in the settlement does much the same. A group on a published return flight eats early and watches the clock through lunch.
A group with its own aircraft does not, and a table can be held for whenever the morning finishes. If the day should be built around a meal somewhere particular, that is a fly and dine day, and anything more specific is a custom request we would rather hear early than late.
Big Farmer's Cay and Its Mile of Sand
Five Minutes Across
Directly opposite the settlement lies Big Farmer's Cay, uninhabited, about five minutes away by boat, with a sandbar roughly a mile long running off it. Nobody lives on it. A sandbar is a tide rather than an opening time, and that is exactly the sort of thing a private departure hour is good for.
A morning out of Miami can be set so your party is standing on the bank while it is out instead of four hours after it has gone under. Tell us at the enquiry which half of the day you want and the flight is built around it.
Black Point, Nine Miles North
The Larger Settlement
Black Point on Great Guana Cay is about nine miles up the chain and is the biggest settlement in the Exumas outside George Town. It has a field of its own, so a party that wants both places in a day does not have to choose one.
Two islands in an afternoon only works if you own the hours. On a schedule the second one is theoretical: you would spend the gap waiting for a flight that leaves when it leaves. On a charter it is a line in the enquiry and the aircraft simply goes twice.
Staniel Cay, Fifteen Miles North
Two Cays in One Afternoon
Fifteen miles north sits Staniel Cay, the traffic and tourism hub of the northern Exumas, with an airport of its own. Whether a day takes in both cays is then a decision for the afternoon rather than for a timetable.
What there is to do once you are there belongs on the Staniel Cay page rather than here. What belongs here is that reaching it from Farmer's Cay is a decision your party makes on the day, by boat or by air, because the aircraft is not waiting on anybody else.
Norman's Cay, Further Up the Chain
The Wreck in the Shallows
Norman's Cay lies well north of here and carries a strip of its own along the south west leg of the island. In the lagoon behind it the remains of a crashed aircraft lie in shallow water, mostly submerged now and still there to be looked at from a boat.
It is the clearest example of what a private aircraft changes out here. Nothing scheduled connects these cays to each other, so on a timetable they are separate trips in separate weeks. Held for one party, the same aircraft joins them into one day of island hopping.
The Flats and the Deep Water Beside Them
A Morning With a Rod
Farmer's Cay sits where the shallow bank on one side and the open sound on the other come close together, and one of the few deep navigable cuts of the northern Exumas runs between them. Shallow water on the inside and deep water immediately outside.
Fishing runs on tide and light, neither of which negotiates with a timetable. A departure you choose is therefore worth more here than almost anywhere: say at the enquiry that the day is a flats morning and the hour out of Florida is set to put you on the water at the right end of it.
Carrying On Instead of Turning Back
Your Own Order
The Exuma chain runs for well over a hundred miles and counts more than three hundred and sixty cays. Once your group has cleared in, moving between them is domestic and the aircraft is already yours. So the order of the day is a question for you rather than for a timetable.
Two islands and home, one island and a late return, or a night here and a different cay tomorrow. Send the whole thing at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as separate flights.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Farmer's Cay from Miami?
Give us the date and the size of the party. Back come the aircraft that are free that day, what each one costs and the hour it can go, and nothing is booked until you say the word.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Farmer's 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 Farmer's Cay: One Aircraft Holds the Whole Day Together
Everything above is the day itself. What follows is the detail underneath it: who boards, who does the paperwork, which fields in the chain the aircraft may use and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Farmer's Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Farmer's 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. The water between is a little over 237 nautical miles and almost none of it has anything on it. Everything around the flying sits on our side too: the field you leave from in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both filings at the border and the travel documents the Bahamas wants to see before your group leaves Florida. A charter suits an occasion for the same reason it suits a family: one party owns the cabin, so the shape of the day comes from them and not from a timetable somebody published in the spring. Back come the aircraft that are free that day, what each one costs and the hour it can go, and nothing is booked until you say the word. 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 Farmer's Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Farmer's 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 Farmer's 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. We ask for passport details once, when you enquire, and the travel documents are lodged from here. 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 Farmer's Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Farmer's Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Farmer's 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 Farmer's Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Farmer's Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Farmer's 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 Farmer's Cay is for. A charter suits an occasion for the same reason it suits a family: one party owns the cabin, so the shape of the day comes from them and not from a timetable somebody published in the spring. 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 Farmer's Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Farmer's Cay actually include?
The aircraft and its crew for your group, both filings at the border, and any ground arrangements you ask for at either end. What you buy is the airframe and not seats in it, which is why five travelling and nine travelling cost the same.
Food on board, a cart at the strip and anything else you want are added on request and come back priced together with the flight.
Where does the aircraft actually land?
On Little Farmer's Cay itself. The island has a short strip across its north west end, the same end the settlement is on, and that is where the day ends. Because the cay is not a port of entry there is one clearance landing on the way in, which the crew handles while your party stays with the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, as long as it sits inside daylight and inside the hours the crew may legally fly. It is the main thing a charter buys on a route like this.
The hour is set when you confirm and can still move afterwards, because the aircraft is not wanted anywhere else and there is nobody else aboard to disturb. Out in the morning and back in the afternoon is the common pattern, but an early start or a late return is an ordinary request here.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
No. The cabin carries the names you gave us and stops there. No seat numbers, no second party across the aisle, and no way for the aircraft to leave without part of your group. The list also stays open until shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is paperwork on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to connect through a bigger airport to reach Farmer's Cay?
No. The aircraft flies the whole route for you and stops once on the way in to clear customs and immigration. Changing aircraft at a hub and waiting for the onward light flight is what published travel into the middle of the chain usually asks of you, and removing that is most of what a charter is for.
Do I need a passport for Farmer's Cay?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft changes nothing about that. Passport details are taken once at the enquiry and we 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. Both ends of this route are general aviation, so there is no terminal to cross and no queue to join. You park, walk to the aircraft and go. The outbound filing is already sent 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 untouched. 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?
Usually, yes. With the aircraft yours for the day it can keep going down the chain instead of turning for home, and Black Point, Staniel Cay, Norman's Cay and George Town all have fields it can use. Send the whole itinerary when you enquire and it comes back priced as one day rather than as three separate flights.
What if the weather turns on the day?
Then the day moves. Weather is the single thing a charter cannot bend, and we would rather change the date than fly one badly. You hear from us as soon as we know and the aircraft goes on a date that works for your group. Since it was being held for you and for nobody else, that is a conversation and not a place in a queue.
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 full or half empty, so the cost per head falls as the group grows, and six to eight people is usually where the comparison turns.
What a fare comparison never shows is the hours you get back at both ends, which on a route into the middle of the Exumas is the difference between a day trip and an overnight. Send the date and the headcount for real numbers.
Can the private plane collect us from a dock or a beach?
Not on wheels, no. A private plane works field to field. Where the pick-up has to be a marina, a hotel dock or a piece of beach, the day is flown on a seaplane instead and we can come to you there.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and the hour you would like. Back come 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 cart at the strip or a table held for the afternoon, say so at the same time and it is 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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