The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Flamingo Cay
Nobody sells a seat to Flamingo Cay. Nothing scheduled goes near it, so the question here is never which flight to take. It is whether the aircraft is yours for the day, because on a route this far down the chain that is the only shape the trip has.
The cay is uninhabited and lies in the Jumentos, roughly 336 miles out of Miami, with no runway, no dock and no settlement on it. Two fields sit within reach. Exuma International at George Town is about 46 miles north of the cay and holds the nearest border desk.
Duncan Town on Ragged Island is about 50 miles south and is the only airfield in the entire chain. Which one your day runs through is decided by your party, not by a route map.
Between the two ends everything sits with us: the field you leave from, the aircraft and the crew, the filing on both sides of the border and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before wheels leave Florida. Your side of it is passports, a bag and being there half an hour before the hour you named.
This is one of the longest crossings we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on down or back up the rest of the Bahamas afterwards without returning to a hub first.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Flamingo Cay from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment one party holds the aircraft for a whole day, and on a crossing of this length every one of them is the difference between a trip that works and a trip nobody attempts.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay CharterThe Manifest
Your party writes the passenger list and nothing is added to it
The names on the flight are the names you send, and the list closes there. No seat map is assigned around you, no stranger sits in the row behind, and there is no version of the morning where the aircraft leaves without four of your eight because something upstream slipped.
The list also stays open until shortly before departure: a cousin who decides to come, a child nobody had counted, a friend who drops out. We refile and it remains the same flight at the same hour.
The Clock
The hour of departure is a decision rather than a listing
A scheduled service leaves when the timetable says. A charter leaves when your party says, inside daylight and inside what the crew is allowed to fly. On a run of this length that is not a nicety.
Getting down to the Jumentos and back inside one day only works if the wheels come up early, and an early hour is exactly the thing no published schedule offers. If the morning slips by twenty minutes, nothing is lost, because the aircraft has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
Neither end of a flight to Flamingo Cay involves an airport building
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida your party parks, walks out to the aircraft and boards, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point you chose.
At the far end the field is a strip, an apron and a small building, and the walk from the aircraft to whatever is waiting is measured in steps. There is no concourse, no gate number and nothing for anyone in your group to carry further than the door.
The Aircraft
It waits at the field instead of flying home without your party
This is the part that makes an uninhabited cay reachable in a day at all. A chartered aircraft does not drop you and go: it sits on the apron for as long as the day runs, crew included.
That removes the single hardest problem with the far south of the Bahamas, which is that there is nothing to come back for you. The return leg is not a second booking, it is the same aircraft with the same crew, leaving when your party walks back to it.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a Flamingo Cay charter cannot make flexible
Everything else on this page bends. Weather does not, and it matters more here than on a short hop, because the water leg at the end of the day is open and exposed. We would rather move a date than fly one badly.
You hear from us as early as we know, and the day is rebooked rather than attempted. Since the aircraft was being held for your party alone, moving it is a conversation and not a place in a queue.
The Ground
What meets you at the field is set up before you leave Florida
A boat at the dock, a car on the island, food and water in the back of the aircraft: on this route none of it can be found on arrival, because there is nothing at the far end to find it at.
All of it is arranged alongside the flight instead. Tell us what the day is supposed to look like when you send the dates and it comes back arranged, with ground transport and anything else you asked for priced next to the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay 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 you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. On a run this far south an early start is usually the difference between a day and an overnight.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send back the aircraft that suit the party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one, and which of the two fields we would use. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so five people cost what eight would.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the departure point and the field at the far end. Then everything around the flight: food and water on board, the boat out to the cay, ground transport on the island side. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time and everything included come back.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just be there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land at the field you chose, and the rest of the day is already arranged.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Flamingo Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at a field roughly fifty miles from the cay, and from that point on nothing about the day is written down anywhere. There is no return departure to work 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 ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Flamingo Cay CharterComing In Over the Top at George Town
The Northern Field
Exuma International sits at Moss Town on Great Exuma, a little under fifty miles north of the cay, and it is the closest field to Flamingo Cay that carries a border desk. Most charters on this route come in over the top for exactly that reason: the country is entered where the aircraft first touches down, and everything after it is domestic.
What a private party gets out of that is the middle of the day. A flight that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing doing it, and an hour is the whole margin between a day out and a night away.
Here the filing is made before you leave Florida, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of the desk is usually minutes. It is also the busier of the two options, which matters when the day has more in it than the cay. George Town has boats, cars and somewhere to eat, and all three can be arranged before you land.
Duncan Town at the Bottom of the Chain
The Southern FieldDuncan Town sits on Ragged Island at the southern end of the Jumentos and holds the only airfield anywhere in a chain that runs for more than a hundred miles. It lies about fifty miles below the cay, so the flying distance is much the same as George Town, from the other direction. The difference is what is around it.
Ragged Island is the one inhabited island in the whole chain, with a population you could fit in a small room, and there is no fuel stop or shop between there and the Exumas. A scheduled traveller cannot use a field like that. A chartered aircraft can, because it brought everything it needs with it and it is not going anywhere until your party comes back.
It is the right choice when the day is about the bottom of the chain rather than the top, or when a boat is already down there waiting.
The Boat to Flamingo Cay Is Booked With the Flight
The Last Leg
Whichever field the day runs through, the final stretch is over water, and on this route it cannot be improvised. There is nothing to hire at the far end, nobody standing at a dock hoping for a fare, and no reason to expect otherwise on an island chain with fifty residents on it.
So it is arranged with the aircraft rather than after it. You tell us at the enquiry how many are travelling and roughly how the day should run, and the boat is at the dock when the aircraft door opens. The same goes for ground transport on the island side if the field and the dock are not the same place.
If the transfer is the part you would rather not have at all, the day can be flown on a seaplane to Flamingo Cay instead, which sets down on the water beside it. Different aircraft, different page, same enquiry.
Standing on Flamingo Cay With Nobody Else There
The Cay
Flamingo Cay is uninhabited. There is no dock, no building, no shop and no shade your party did not bring. What there is instead is a beach of very fine pale sand on the western side and water shallow enough to walk a long way out into. The thing a charter changes here is not the sand, it is the arithmetic around it.
Anyone arriving by scheduled means would be working backwards from a departure all day. Your party is not, so the afternoon simply runs until somebody decides it is finished. On an island where the only other traffic is the occasional cruising boat at anchor, that is close to having the place to yourselves for as long as you want it.
What there is to look at once you are ashore belongs on the Flamingo Cay destination page rather than here.
Water, Ice and Lunch Ride in the Back of Your Aircraft
The Payload
When one party holds the aircraft, what goes in the back becomes a question of weight rather than a rule about how many bags each person gets. On most routes that is a convenience. On this one it is the difference between a good day and a short one. Nothing is sold at the far end.
Drinking water, ice, lunch, a shade structure, rods, a cooler for whatever gets caught: all of it flies out with your party, inside the payload for the aircraft on the day. Because nobody else is aboard, the trade between passengers and load is yours to make and yours to decide where it falls. The baggage guidance sets out how that works in practice.
Anything bigger than luggage is a different service to the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Almost Nothing Comes This Far Down the Jumentos
The Chain
The Jumentos and Ragged chain runs south for well over a hundred miles and holds a single settlement along the whole of it. There are no resorts, no marinas and no supply stop between the bottom of the Exumas and Duncan Town.
That emptiness is the reason people charter down here, and it is also the reason they have to. Sailors reach these cays after days of planning around weather and provisioning. An aircraft that belongs to your party for the day collapses the same distance into a morning, and brings the provisioning with it in the hold.
It also means there is no fallback if something is forgotten, so the enquiry matters more here than on a short crossing. Tell us the shape of the day and the gaps get filled before anyone takes off.
When a Flamingo Cay Day Turns Into Two
Overnight
Not every party wants to be back in Florida by evening, and a charter handles that better than anything scheduled could. The aircraft either waits or comes back the following morning at an hour you name, and the second option is often the cheaper shape of the two. Where the night happens is part of the same conversation.
A yacht at anchor off the cay is the most common answer, and a yacht rendezvous can be built into the flight so the aircraft delivers your party straight to it. Otherwise the night is spent back up around Great Exuma, which has the rooms and the restaurants that the chain below it does not.
Either way it is one arrangement rather than two bookings, and it is priced with the aircraft.
Carrying On From Flamingo Cay the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Flamingo Cay is often one stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in on the way down is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg afterwards is domestic. An aircraft held for your party can string those legs together in whatever order the day wants.
Long Island, Staniel Cay and the Exumas, Exuma, Andros and Nassau all take the same type, and none of them sends you back to a hub first.
That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single cay and home again is a Flamingo Cay getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Flamingo Cay from Miami?
Send the date and the number of guests. You get back the aircraft that are free, what each one costs, which field we would use and the hour it can leave. Nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay: One Party, One Aircraft, 336 Miles of Open Water
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is aboard, who deals with the border, how the field at the far end gets chosen and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Flamingo Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Flamingo 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 cay lies about 336 statute miles from downtown Miami, roughly 292 nautical and almost every mile of that is open water. Between the two ends everything sits with us: the field you leave from, the aircraft and the crew, the filing on both sides of the border and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before wheels leave Florida. In practice that means the aircraft comes into the country at an airport of entry first and carries straight on afterwards, and George Town on Great Exuma is the usual one on this route. Where exactly it happens is settled with the flight plan, not by your party, and the crew handles the whole of it while you stay where you are. 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 Flamingo Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Flamingo 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 Flamingo 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. 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 Flamingo Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Flamingo Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Flamingo Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Flamingo 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 Flamingo Cay is for. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for, and what happens once your party is standing on the sand is yours to arrange. An anniversary where the catering on board is part of the surprise rather than an afterthought. 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 Flamingo Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Flamingo Cay actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and the arrangements at either end that you ask for. You are booking the airframe rather than seats on it, so the price is the same whether five travel or eight.
The boat out to the cay, food and water on board, a car on the island side and anything else the day needs are added when you ask for them and come back priced alongside the aircraft.
Where does the aircraft land for Flamingo Cay?
At one of two fields, and your party picks which. Exuma International at George Town sits about 46 miles north of the cay and carries the nearest border desk. Duncan Town on Ragged Island sits about 50 miles south and is the only airfield anywhere in the Jumentos and Ragged chain.
The cay itself has no runway of any kind, so a wheeled aircraft cannot land on it. We recommend one of the two when you send your dates, and the reason is usually what else is in the day rather than the flying.
How does the last stretch from the field to the cay work?
On the water, and it is booked with the flight rather than found when you get there. Nothing is for hire at the far end, so a boat is arranged in advance out of whichever field the day runs through.
If you would rather skip the transfer entirely, an aircraft that sets down on the water beside the cay does exist, and that is the seaplane charter on its own page. Say at the enquiry which of the two you want and we will tell you honestly which one your date and your group suit.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. On this route that is the single most valuable thing a charter buys, because getting down to the Jumentos and back inside a day depends on an early start that no published schedule offers.
The hour is set when you confirm and can still move afterwards if the day changes, since the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to consider. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
Is anyone else on the aircraft?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no second party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight going without part of your group. 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 route through Nassau to get down there?
No. The aircraft comes into the country at an airport of entry and carries straight on from there, and on this route that is usually George Town on Great Exuma rather than anywhere further north.
Connecting through a large airport and waiting for something smaller is what scheduled travel to the far out islands requires, and removing that step is most of what a charter is for. Once your party is cleared in, every leg after it is domestic.
Do I need a passport for Flamingo Cay?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft changes nothing about 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.
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 carry on to Great Exuma or Long Island the same day?
Often yes, and on this route it is a common shape. Once your party is through the desk, the aircraft is yours to send wherever the afternoon wants to go, and the fields on Great Exuma, Long Island and up through the Exumas all take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as separate flights.
Is a charter worth it for a group going this far south?
There is nothing scheduled to compare it against, which is the honest answer. Nothing flies to Flamingo Cay, and the alternative is a long boat run from the Exumas or a trip that does not happen. What the charter is really buying on this route is the aircraft waiting at the field all day instead of leaving without you.
The cost is the same whether the cabin is full or not, so the figure per person falls as the party grows. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
There is another Flamingo Cay on Andros. Which one is this?
This page is the uninhabited cay in the Jumentos, roughly 336 miles from Miami and about 46 miles south of George Town.
The other one is a private lodge on the west side of Andros, some 200 miles away in a different part of the country, and it is a different flight with a different field. Say which of the two you mean when you send your dates and nothing gets planned around the wrong island.
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, which field we would use and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
If the day has anything else in it, a boat out to the cay or a night on Ragged Island, 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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