The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Hawks Nest
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat beside strangers, you are booking the aircraft itself. That single difference decides the rest of the day: who is on board, what hour it leaves, and which strip it rolls to a stop on at the far end.
Hawks Nest sits at the southwest tip of Cat Island and has its own paved strip, so the aircraft goes to the island rather than towards it. It is not the only one. Cat Island carries three usable strips along its length, and a chartered aircraft is free to use whichever one puts your party closest to where it is actually going.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag, and turns up shortly before the boarding time rather than hours ahead of it.
Cat Island is one of the quieter crossings we fly and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Hawks Nest Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Hawks Nest from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment an aircraft belongs to one party for a day, and not one of them is a feature of the aircraft.
Plan Your Hawks Nest CharterThe Manifest
You write the passenger list and nobody adds a name to it
A private plane to Hawks Nest from Miami leaves with the people you named and with nobody else. There is no seat map to be allocated around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything at all.
The list also stays open: somebody drops out on the Thursday, a cousin decides on the Friday that she is coming after all, and the flight is still the same flight.
The Clock
You name the time it leaves rather than looking one up
A scheduled service leaves when it leaves, and a long thin island at the far end of the crossing is exactly the sort of place it serves rarely. A charter leaves when your party wants to, inside daylight and inside what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the reason a single day at Hawks Nest works at all rather than turning into two nights.
The Airport That Is Not There
Neither end of this route has a terminal to walk through
Both ends are general aviation. In Florida your party parks, walks to the aircraft and goes, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. At the Bahamian end the strip is a strip: an apron, a fence and the road out. There is no concourse, no gate number and nothing to carry further than the door of the aircraft.
The Border
Clearing in is arranged around your route rather than bolted onto it
Hawks Nest is not a port of entry, so the first landing in the country is made where the country asks for it. That sounds like a complication and on a charter it is not one: the stop is planned into the flight before you leave Florida, the crew handles what happens on the ground, and your party stays with the aircraft. Nobody queues and nobody fills anything in.
The Return
The way home belongs to you in the same way the way out does
A return leg on a scheduled service is an hour somebody else published months ago. On a charter it is the hour you name on the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island. Lunch runs long, the boat comes back late, the light over the water is worth another half hour, and the aircraft is still sitting where you left it.
The Weather
Weather is the one 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, and the flight is rebooked rather than flown. Because the aircraft was held for your party and for nobody else, moving it is a conversation instead of a place in a queue for the next available seat.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Hawks Nest
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 Hawks Nest
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Hawks Nest Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and where on the island you actually want to end up. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. With three strips on Cat Island one usually suits the day better than the others.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send back 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 what a full one costs.
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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 onward to where you are staying. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and everything included come back to you.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land where you asked to land, and the day is yours.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Hawks Nest from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling on a strip your party chose, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no published return to work backwards from and nobody else to keep together, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route actually ask about, in the order they ask about them.
Plan Your Hawks Nest CharterThree Strips and One Decision
Where You LandCat Island runs a long way from north to south and its settlements are spread out along it, so a single island ended up with three usable strips instead of one. Hawks Nest is at the southwest tip. New Bight sits near the middle. Arthur's Town is at the northern end.
On a scheduled ticket that is not a choice, it is wherever the service happens to go. On a charter it is the first question we ask you, because the right answer is simply the one that leaves the shortest ground journey at the other end. Tell us where you are staying, or where the boat is, and the strip follows from that.
Nothing about the aircraft changes between the three. What changes is how much of your afternoon is spent in a car.
The Clearance Stop Nobody Gets Out For
One Planned Landing
Hawks Nest is not a port of entry, so the first landing in the country is made where the country receives arrivals. On Cat Island that is New Bight, and it is a short hop from the southern tip rather than a detour to another island.
Because this is a charter, the stop is in the flight plan days before you fly. Your party is not asked to do anything with it: the crew handles what happens on the ground, the travel documents went in from our side at the enquiry, and the aircraft carries on to the strip you actually asked for.
That is the whole of it. On this route the border is a line in our planning rather than an event in your day.
Leaving Early and Coming Back Late
Both Ends of the Day
The first hour and the last hour are the two a timetable takes away from you, and they are the two that decide whether an island this far out is a day or a weekend. A charter gives both back. The aircraft leaves when your party is ready, inside daylight and inside what the crew may fly, and it is still sitting there when you come back.
Parties who want the water early ask for a departure that gets them on the island before the wind builds. Parties who are there for lunch and a long afternoon ask for the opposite. Either way the return hour is a sentence in a message on the day, not a booking to be changed.
A Cart Waiting Where You Stop Rolling
Arranged, Not Found
Cat Island is not a place where transport is standing around waiting to be hailed, and that is truer at the southern end than anywhere else on it. Ask for ground transport when you send your dates and it is at the aircraft when the door opens.
A car if you are going up the island, a cart if you are staying within a mile or two of where you landed. On an island this quiet that is worth more than it sounds, because the alternative is an hour nobody planned for. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Cat Island Itself
Its Own Page
What there is to do once you are off the apron is not this page. The Cat Island destination page carries the beaches, the hill, the fishing and the diving, and a day built around lunch somewhere particular is a fly and dine day.
What belongs here is only this: an aircraft that is yours does not put a clock on any of it. A single island and back on the same day is a Hawks Nest getaway, and it works because nothing about the return was decided by somebody else.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Order of Stops
Cat Island is often one stop rather than the whole trip, and an aircraft held for your party can take the stops in whatever order suits you. Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros and Staniel Cay and the Exumas all take the same type, and none of them sends you back to a hub in between.
That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry rather than one leg at a time, and it comes back as a single day with one price on it.
Freight on the Same Strip
A Different Service
A chartered aircraft with your party in it is one thing. A pallet, a generator, a month of supplies for a house on the south end is another, and on this island the second one comes up often.
That is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags, and there is a cargo flight to Hawks Nest for the loads a cabin was never going to take. Ask at the enquiry and the two can be flown on the same day.
When There Is Nothing to Land On
The Other Aircraft
Not every island in this part of the Bahamas has a strip, and a wheeled aircraft cannot invent one. Where your day wants a dock, a beach or a boat at the far end, the aircraft changes rather than the day.
A seaplane to Hawks Nest sets down on the water and is a different page. Between the two of them there are very few places in this archipelago we have to say no to, which is the practical reason we run both.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Hawks Nest 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 Hawks Nest 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 Hawks Nest: One Party, One Aircraft, Three Island Strips
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it. The phrase private plane charter Miami to Hawks Nest describes an arrangement rather than an aircraft: who is on board, who does the paperwork, which of the island's strips the wheels touch, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Hawks Nest: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Hawks Nest 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. Miami to Hawks Nest is two hundred and seventy two nautical miles of open water, and almost none of it has anything on it. A party crossing to the far side of Cat Island is almost always travelling together for a reason: a family with three generations in it, four anglers who booked one house between them, a crew joining a yacht at the dock. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice and not a given. 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 Hawks Nest from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Hawks Nest
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 Hawks Nest 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 and not 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 Hawks Nest: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Hawks Nest crossing
A private plane from Miami to Hawks Nest 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 Hawks Nest: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Hawks Nest
A private private plane from Miami to Hawks Nest 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 Hawks Nest is for. A weekend where eight people who wanted to be together actually are, on the way out and on the way back, instead of arriving in threes across two days. A charter suits an occasion like it suits a family: the cabin belongs to one party. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening. Others stay on and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same charter, and the whole group travels together on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. Everything is in place before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Hawks Nest: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Hawks Nest actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and the ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats on it, so the flight costs what it costs whether four people travel or eight.
Catering, a car or a golf cart on arrival and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on 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.
Most parties leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early departure and a late return are 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 second party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight going without part of your group because a connection did not hold.
It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Which airport on Cat Island do we land at?
Whichever one suits your day. Hawks Nest has its own strip at the southwest tip, New Bight sits near the middle of the island and Arthur's Town is at the north end. On a charter that is a choice rather than a timetable, so tell us where you are actually staying or where the boat is and we will land at the one that makes the shortest day of it.
Do we have to clear customs somewhere else first?
Yes, and it is planned into the flight rather than added to it. Hawks Nest is not a port of entry, so the first landing in the country is made where arrivals are received, which on Cat Island is New Bight.
Your party stays with the aircraft, the crew deals with the formalities, and you carry on to where you were going. On a charter this is one stop in a flight plan we filed days earlier, not something you discover on arrival.
Do I need a passport for Hawks Nest?
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.
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 your party has cleared in, every leg after it is domestic, and the aircraft can carry on down the chain rather than return to a hub first. The strips in the Exumas and the Abacos take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as separate flights.
What if the weather turns on the day?
The day moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather 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 it 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 on 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 usually where the comparison turns.
What a fare comparison never shows is the hours you get back at each end of the day, which on a route served thinly by schedules is most of the point. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane collect us from a marina or a beach?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs strip to strip. If the pickup or the drop needs to be a dock, a beach or a boat, the same day runs 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. 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 cart at the strip or a table held for the afternoon, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
Can I bring a pet on a private plane charter?
Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.
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