The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Fresh Creek
Nobody sells you a seat here. What you book is the aircraft, and the people in it are the ones you named. Everything else about the day follows from that: the hour it lifts off, who sits next to whom, and the exact place on Andros where it comes down.
Fresh Creek is the main settlement of Central Andros, and its airfield takes an aircraft like this directly. The usual way in is a seat to Nassau and then a ferry or a second flight across. Your own aircraft skips both. It is roughly 167 statute miles from downtown Miami, 145 nautical, and the field sits a few miles southwest of Andros Town, close to the creek the settlement is named for.
Everything in between sits with us: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for. Your party packs a bag and its passports. It is one of several small plane routes from Miami to Andros, alongside the private plane to Andros and the far south of the island. The same aircraft also carries on to the rest of the Bahamas. All our other departures are listed under Private Plane Charter from Miami. The same crossing can also be booked by helicopter, small plane and private jet, and every option sits side by side in Flights from Miami to Fresh Creek.
Plan Your Fresh Creek Charter
Miami to Fresh Creek Private Plane
How a Private Plane to Fresh Creek from Miami Actually Works
A private plane from Miami to Fresh Creek is more than the stretch of water in the middle. This is what each flight carries with it, from the first message to the moment your party walks off at Andros Town.
Plan Your Fresh Creek CharterDistance and Block Time
145 Nautical Miles and a Departure Hour You Set
Downtown Miami to Fresh Creek is about 167 statute miles, 145 nautical, nearly all of it over open water until the long green shore of Andros appears. What that comes to in block time depends on the departure point you choose.
The Whole Aircraft
Your Party Alone in the Cabin to Fresh Creek
The aircraft is held for the list you send, so nobody is seated beside you who was not invited and nobody has to be at the field early. The list can still move the day before: someone joins, someone drops out. We refile and the flight stays the same.
The Field at the Other End
The Small Fresh Creek Airstrip Instead of a Nassau Connection
The aircraft comes down at Fresh Creek Airport, also known as Andros Town International, a few miles from the settlement. If another field on the island suits the day better, San Andros in the north or Mangrove Cay and Congo Town further south, say so and that is where it goes. More on the island is on the Fresh Creek destination page.
Both Borders
Manifest and Passports, Both Borders Filed Before You Fly
Fresh Creek Airport is on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so your party clears in where it lands and nothing extra is needed on the way. Each passenger carries a passport, children too, and the rest is handled from our side. What counts is set out in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations and a Car at Fresh Creek
What the day is for gets arranged before take-off: catering in the cabin, drinks you choose, a car standing by when the door opens. A birthday, an anniversary or a proposal is built into the flight as a custom experience rather than squeezed around it.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip or Overnight Stay at Fresh Creek
A day trip goes out and back on the same date, with the aircraft waiting while you are ashore, and a night on Andros makes it two. The airframe is held for your block, not a published slot, so the time you fly home is the one you name that morning.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Fresh Creek
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 Fresh Creek
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Fresh Creek 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 this route a strip at the far end means we can usually work to it.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send the aircraft that fit your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group on the same aircraft costs the same as a full one.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the pickup point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight. Catering on board, a car or a golf cart waiting when you land, ground transport to your hotel or back to the airport.
Flowers if the day is a special one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and everything included come back to you.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land right at your destination, and enjoy the day.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Fresh Creek from Miami Puts You Down
The plane is where a Fresh Creek day really begins. A flight across the Gulf Stream, then the reef line along the east shore of Andros, the mouth of the creek with its lighthouse and marina, and the flats and blue holes inland. Below is what a day there can look like.
Plan Your Fresh Creek CharterClearing In Where You Land at Fresh Creek
Straight InThe one fixed point of the day is clearing in, and here it happens at the field you land on. Fresh Creek Airport is on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, and so is the public dock in the creek, which means there is no stop at Nassau before the stop you came for. What that gives a private party is the morning back. A flight that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it. Here the paperwork goes in before you leave Florida, and the walk from the aircraft into Central Andros is short. After that the island is yours until you say otherwise, and nobody is holding a return time over you.
The Lighthouse and Marina at the Mouth of Fresh Creek
Andros Town
Andros Town sits on the south bank where the creek meets the sea, with Coakley Town across the water. An old lighthouse still marks the entrance, and the marina beside it has been taking in boats since 1951. Parties here for a boat rather than a room often get no further than this. Ask for ground transport when you enquire and a car is at the aircraft when the door opens, so the drive to the dock is a few minutes rather than a search for a lift. Boats coming over from Nassau tie up in the same creek, so a party meeting friends on a yacht can land, walk down to the water and be aboard before the afternoon has properly started.
Androsia Cloth, Dyed by Hand Beside Fresh Creek
Made Here
Androsia batik has been made by hand at Fresh Creek since the 1970s, the bright wax-dyed cloth you see across the Bahamas. The workshop stands near the marina, and visitors can watch the dyeing and, on some days, try it. It is the sort of hour a schedule squeezes out. With your own aircraft it is simply a later departure home, and a later departure is one message to us. A day built around something more particular is a custom request, and we would rather hear it early. Lengths of the cloth, shirts and dresses are sold at the workshop, and there is room for them in the back on the flight home.
The Reef Wall Off Fresh Creek and the Tongue of the Ocean
The Barrier Reef
Off the east shore runs the Andros Barrier Reef, about 190 miles of it, one of the longest in the world. Beyond the reef the bottom falls away more than 6,000 feet into the Tongue of the Ocean, and the wall where it drops is what divers come to Andros for. From Fresh Creek the reef is a short boat ride out. Tanks and gear travel with you on the aircraft, so a morning dive and an afternoon flight home fit into one day. Divers who want the reef without the wall stay in the shallower gardens inside it, where the water is calm enough for snorkellers in the same party to come along on the same boat.
Captain Bill's and the Blue Holes Near Fresh Creek
Over 180 of Them
Andros has more than 180 blue holes, inland and offshore, more than anywhere else. Captain Bill's Blue Hole, inside the Blue Holes National Park, is the one most visitors swim in, a deep round pool ringed by pine forest. A car waiting at the field takes you there and back in an afternoon. Because the aircraft waits for you rather than for a timetable, a second swim is never the reason to rush. The park also has trails through the pine forest between the holes, so a group can split up, some swimming and some walking, and meet back at the car.
Bonefish, Tarpon and Permit on the Fresh Creek Flats
On the Flats
The creeks and flats around Fresh Creek hold bonefish, tarpon and permit, and Andros is one of the names anglers say first when they talk about the Bahamas. A guide meets you at the dock and the skiff is on the water within the hour. Anglers keep their own clock, out at first light and back when the tide turns. A chartered aircraft keeps theirs too. A whole day on the water is a flats fishing day, planned around the tides rather than a departure board. Rods and reels travel in the back of the aircraft, so nobody has to trust the tackle on the island to be the right weight for the fish.
Fishing Rods and Dive Tanks Flown to Fresh Creek
Your Own Payload
With one party on board, what goes in the back is a question of weight, not of how many bags. On a fishing and diving island that matters more than it sounds. Rod tubes, dive tanks, a cooler for the boat, provisions for the house: all of it can travel, within the aircraft's payload on the day. Nobody else is aboard, so you decide how it is shared between passengers and load. The baggage guidance explains how it works. Anything bigger than luggage is a different service to the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Onward From Fresh Creek to Kamalame Cay and Mangrove Cay
The Next Leg
Once your party has cleared in at Fresh Creek, every leg after it is domestic. Kamalame Cay lies just up the coast, and Mangrove Cay and South Andros are further down the island. An aircraft that is yours for the day can join those legs in any order. Nassau, Staniel Cay and the Exumas and Grand Bahama all take the same type, and none of them means going back to a hub first. That is an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; one island and back is a Fresh Creek day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Fresh Creek 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 Fresh Creek 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 Fresh Creek: One Party, One Aircraft, Straight to Fresh Creek
Above is the shape of the day. Below is what sits behind it: who is on board, who handles the paperwork, why your one party and one aircraft go straight to Fresh Creek instead of through a hub, and how late the hour can still change on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Fresh Creek: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
A window each on a Miami to Fresh Creek private plane
Nobody else shares the cabin on the way across, so the hour over the water belongs to your party in the same way the island does later. Downtown Miami to Fresh Creek is about 167 statute miles, or 145 nautical, and almost all of it is open water. On the final stretch the Andros Barrier Reef runs along the east shore for about 190 miles, and past it the seabed drops more than 6,000 feet into the Tongue of the Ocean. The island itself holds over 180 blue holes, and the water over the bank turns from deep blue to pale green as you come in, which is the view most parties remember first. Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas, and from the air it looks it. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Because the aircraft is yours, so is the choice of field it leaves from. The cabin is your party's alone, so the crossing goes the way you want it to. what travels with you is arranged before boarding.
Private Plane to Fresh Creek from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Fresh Creek
A charter comes without a timetable. The day is planned around the hour you give us. You say when you want to take off, when you want to be standing at Fresh Creek and which Miami field suits your morning. The aircraft is your party's for the day, so all three are yours to decide, and a change the week before is one message to us. Check-in is half an hour before lift-off and nothing more. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags are loaded in front of you, and the passenger list carries your names alone. Nothing in the morning depends on a stranger. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. The crossing is worth watching, too. The windows are large and the aircraft flies low, so everyone has a seat with a view of the water changing colour as Andros comes up.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Fresh Creek: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Fresh Creek crossing
A private plane from Miami to Fresh Creek leaves one country and enters another, and comes back the same way. Those crossings are the part that goes wrong when nobody prepares them. Arriving in the Bahamas takes a declaration sent from Florida, clearance at a port of entry when you land and a filing for the US return before you set off home, and that filing decides where you may land coming back. On a Crown Air charter the crew files all three. Every passenger needs a passport, children too, as the travel documents guidance explains. What may come along is in the baggage guidance. The landing point for the return reaches you with the quote, settled before anyone boards. A departure moved by weather follows the weather and delays policy. If someone joins or drops out before the flight, the crew refiles. One message to us is all it takes, and the day stays as planned.
Flying Private Plane from Miami to Fresh Creek: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate at Fresh Creek
A private plane from Miami to Fresh Creek usually has a reason behind it: a birthday, a proposal, a retirement, a few days on the flats with the friends who fish. The crossing is quick enough that the reason, and not the travel, fills the day. That is the point of a private plane to Fresh Creek. Fresh Creek Airport is a port of entry, so the party clears in where it lands and the afternoon starts straight away. We hold the aircraft, the hour and whatever you asked for; the rest of the day belongs to you. Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to leave. Some groups come over for the day and sleep at home. Others stay on Andros and pick the date they fly back. It is the same charter either way, and the whole group travels on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, tell us when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers come along. All of it is ready before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Fresh Creek: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Fresh Creek actually include?
The aircraft and its crew for your party alone, both border filings, and whatever ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats in it, so the price is the same whether four people fly or eight. Catering, a car at Andros Town and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on this route. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
In practice most parties leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early departure and a late 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 a connection did not hold.
It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Fresh Creek?
No. Fresh Creek Airport is on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so the aircraft flies straight there and your party clears in where it lands.
Going through a larger airport first is what scheduled travel to Andros usually involves, and it is the step a private charter takes out. Once you are cleared in, an onward leg to Mangrove Cay, the Exumas or another island is domestic.
Can we land somewhere on Andros other than Fresh Creek?
Yes. Andros has several airfields, San Andros in the north, Mangrove Cay and Congo Town further south, and because the aircraft is yours you choose which one it lands at. Tell us where on the island you are staying and the flight is planned to the field closest to it.
A day can also use two of them, landing at Fresh Creek in the morning and leaving from another field in the afternoon, as long as the plan is in the enquiry.
Do I need a passport for Fresh Creek?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to cross and no queue to join at either end, because both ends of this route are general aviation. You park, walk to the aircraft and go. The outbound border filing is already done from our side before you arrive, so there is nothing to hand in and nothing to print.
Is there anything to do at Fresh Creek for people who do not fish or dive?
Plenty. The Androsia workshop, the old lighthouse at the mouth of the creek, the beaches along the east shore and the blue holes inland all fit into an afternoon. A car at the aircraft makes the island easy to get around, and the return flight leaves when your party is ready rather than at a fixed time.
What if the weather turns on the day?
The day moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather move a flight than fly it badly.
You are told as early as we know, and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that works for your party. Because the aircraft was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat.
Is a private charter cheaper than scheduled flights for a group?
It depends on the size of the party and what the day is worth to you. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per person falls as the group grows, and a party of six or eight is where the comparison usually turns.
What does not show up in a fare comparison is the hour you get back at each end of the day. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane drop us at the dock in the creek?
Not on wheels. A private plane flies from airfield to airfield. If the drop-off needs to be a dock, a marina or a beach on Andros, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can take you there. On wheels, the airport is only a short drive from the creek, and a car waiting at the aircraft covers the rest.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and the hour you would like. You get back the aircraft that are free, what each one costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
If the day has anything else in it, a car at Andros Town or a guide for the flats, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
Can I bring a pet on a private plane charter?
Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.
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Send the date, the number of guests and the hour you would like to leave. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and what is included, before anything is booked.
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