The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Kamalame Cay
Chartering is a different purchase to buying a ticket. Nothing on the aircraft is sold twice. Your group has the cabin, the hold and the hour, and because no one else is waiting on that aircraft, the shape of the day is a decision rather than a listing.
Kamalame Cay sits off Staniard Creek on the north east side of Andros, ninety six acres of private island with a channel between it and the main island.
There is no runway on the cay itself, so the wheels come down on Andros and a short road and boat finish the trip. Which field on Andros that is belongs to you, and that is the part a schedule never offers.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the filings on both sides and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag and arrives half an hour before the wheels move, not three hours before.
The crossing is a little over 150 miles and roughly an hour in the air, one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on into the rest of the Bahamas on the same day.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Kamalame Cay from Miami Actually Works
Six things move from somebody else's hands into yours the moment the aircraft is held for one party, and none of them are about the airframe.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay CharterThe Manifest
You write the passenger list and nobody adds a name to it
The people who fly are the people you send us, and the list closes when you say it does. No seat map, no stranger in the row behind, no reason to be early to protect anything.
It also stays open in the useful direction: a cousin who decides on the Thursday, a child who turns out to be coming, a colleague who drops out. We refile and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
Departure is something you name rather than something you find
A schedule leaves when it was printed to leave. Your charter leaves when it suits the day, inside daylight and inside what the crew may legally fly. That is the reason a single day on Kamalame Cay works at all: out early enough for the water to still be flat, back before the afternoon builds, with no published return to bend the day around.
The Field on Andros
The landing site is yours to pick, and Andros has more than one
Andros is long and has several fields along it. Fresh Creek sits closest to the Staniard Creek side, San Andros lies to the north and Congo Town serves the south of the island. A scheduled traveller takes whichever one the airline serves. Your party takes the one that makes the road and the boat shortest on the day, and that decision is made with you at the enquiry.
The Terminal
There is no terminal at either end of this route
Florida is general aviation: you park, walk out and board, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. Andros is smaller again, a counter beside the apron rather than a concourse. Nothing is carried further than the door of the aircraft, and nothing your party holds has to be printed first.
The Return
The way home moves as easily as the way out did
A return on a schedule is an hour someone else published months ago. Here it is the hour you name in the morning, and it can still move while you are on the cay. Lunch runs long, the tide is right for another hour on the flats, the boat back across is late: the aircraft is still on Andros, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Weather
Weather is the one part of the day a charter does not make softer
Everything above bends. Weather does not, and a day we cannot fly well is a day we move rather than fly. You hear from us as early as we know and the flight is rebooked, not squeezed. Because the aircraft was held for your party alone, moving it is a conversation with us and not a queue for the next available seat.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Kamalame 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 Kamalame Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Kamalame 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.
Name the hour you actually want rather than the one you assume is on offer. On this crossing the fields on Andros are open through the day, so there is usually room to work to it.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We look at what is free on your date and send back the aircraft that suit your party, with seats, baggage and flight time for each. You are pricing the airframe and not a headcount, so six people and nine people on the same aircraft pay the same.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the departure point and the field on Andros. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, the car on the Andros side, the boat across the channel, ground transport at either end. Flowers if the day is a particular one. You approve it, you pay, and the 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 make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land on Andros, and the rest of the way to the cay is already arranged.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Kamalame Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The wheels stop on Andros, beside a counter rather than inside a terminal, and from that moment nothing about the day is published anywhere. There is no return departure to work backwards from and no group to stay with, so what follows is a menu and not an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this crossing actually ask for, in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay CharterArriving on Andros Instead of at a Hub
The First StepThe flight comes down on Andros, at whichever of its fields was agreed when you booked, and that single decision sets the tone for the rest of the morning. Nobody assigned it to you and nobody is waiting on it. What it buys is time rather than comfort.
A routing through a larger airport costs a landing, a wait and usually a second boarding, and an hour lost in the middle of the morning is the difference between a day on the cay and a night away from home. Here the papers were filed from Florida and the walk from the aircraft is measured in minutes.
From that point the island belongs to your group until you say otherwise. Nothing is holding a return time over anybody.
Road and Boat to the Cay
The Last Twenty Minutes
Kamalame Cay lies off Staniard Creek with a channel between it and Andros, so the end of the journey is a short drive up the coast and then a boat across. It is minutes on the water, not a crossing. This is the part that separates a chartered day from a scheduled one.
A party tied to a published return spends the afternoon calculating backwards from it and leaves the island early to be safe. With the aircraft held for you, the boat goes back when your group is finished and not before. Ask for the ground transport at the enquiry and the car is at the apron when the door opens.
Ninety Six Acres With Nobody Else On Them
The Cay
The cay is small enough to walk end to end and private enough that the people on it are the people who came for it. That is a good match for a charter, because the group that arrives is already the whole guest list.
A party that took a house between them tends never to leave it again for the rest of the day, and the flight is usually built around that: out early, back late, one crossing each way.
What there is to do once you are there belongs on the Kamalame Cay page rather than here, and a day built around lunch somewhere particular is a fly and dine day. Anything more specific than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Staniard Creek and the Andros Side
The Main Island
Staniard Creek is a small settlement on the coast opposite the cay, and it is the part of Andros most guests see: a road, a handful of houses and the dock where the boat leaves from.
Andros itself is the largest island in the Bahamas and almost none of it is built on, so the drive from any of its fields runs through bush and creek rather than through traffic. Groups who want more of the island than the dock usually add an hour at either end of the day, and with your own aircraft that hour costs nothing but the asking.
The Flats on the Right Tide
Worth an Early HourAndros is known for its bonefish flats, and flats fishing is governed by the tide rather than by the clock. That is exactly the kind of constraint a scheduled flight cannot bend around and a charter can.
Tell us which tide the guide wants and the departure is set to it, which often means leaving Miami earlier than anybody would choose to and being glad of it by mid morning. A day built around the water is a flats fishing day and the rods travel in the back of the same aircraft you are sitting in.
Blue Holes and the Wall Offshore
Under the Water
Andros has more blue holes than anywhere else on earth, inland ones in the bush and marine ones out on the banks, and the sea floor drops away sharply a short distance off the eastern shore. For a diving group the useful part is not the sites themselves but the loading.
Tanks and gear are weight rather than bag count on a chartered aircraft, and the day can start at the hour the boat is ready instead of the hour a timetable allows. Slot it in when you send your dates and the flight is built around the water.
Rods, Clubs and Coolers
Weight, Not Bag Counts
When one party has the aircraft, what goes in the back is a conversation about payload and not a rule about how many pieces each passenger may bring. On this crossing that is a practical difference rather than a philosophical one. Fishing gear, dive tanks, a cooler for the house, a case of something for the week: it travels, within what the aircraft can lift on the day.
Because nobody else is on board, the trade between passengers and load is yours to settle, and the baggage guidance sets out how that is worked out. Anything bigger than luggage is a different service on the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Adding Another Island to the Same Day
Your Routing
Kamalame Cay is sometimes the whole trip and sometimes the first half of it, and clearing in on arrival is what makes the second half simple: every leg after that one is domestic. An aircraft that is yours for the day can take those legs in whatever order you like.
Nassau, Harbour Island, Grand Bahama and Staniel Cay and the Exumas all take the same type, and none of them send you back through a hub first. That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; one island and home again is a Kamalame Cay day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Kamalame Cay 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 Kamalame 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 Kamalame Cay: One Aircraft, One Party, One Hour Across
Everything above is the day itself. What follows is the detail underneath it: who is allowed on board, who deals with the paperwork, why the field on Andros is a choice rather than an assignment, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Kamalame Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Kamalame 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 Miami and Andros is about 137 nautical miles wide and almost none of it has anything on it. On this crossing that matters more than usual, because a party heading for a private island is nearly always travelling as one unit: a family who took a villa between them, a group joining a yacht at the dock, eight friends on a fishing week. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the filings on both sides and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Because the aircraft is held for one party, nobody else decides where it lands. 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 Kamalame Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Kamalame 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 Kamalame 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. You take whichever makes the drive shortest, and it is named with you before anything is confirmed. 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 Kamalame Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Kamalame Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Kamalame 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 Kamalame Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Kamalame Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Kamalame 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 Kamalame Cay is for. The cabin belongs to one party, so the day can be built around the people in it instead of around a timetable that was published long before anybody knew the date mattered. A birthday that leaves late enough for everyone to have made it to the field. 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 Kamalame Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Kamalame Cay actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, the filings on both sides of the crossing, and the ground arrangements you ask for at either end, including the road and the boat from Andros across to the cay.
You are buying the airframe rather than seats in it, so the price is the same whether five people travel or eight. Catering, a car waiting and onward transport are added when you ask and come back priced alongside the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys on this crossing. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards, because the aircraft has nowhere else to be and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
Most parties leave in the morning and come back late in the day, but an early start and a late return are ordinary requests rather than exceptions. Tell us the hour you actually want.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
No. The aircraft carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no second party in the cabin and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group. It also means the 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.
Does the plane land on Kamalame Cay itself?
Not on wheels. The cay has no airstrip, so a private plane lands on Andros and the last part of the trip is a short road transfer and a boat across the channel, both arranged with the flight. If you would rather arrive at the island without that step, a seaplane lands on the water there instead, and that is a different aircraft on its own page.
Which airport on Andros do we land at?
Whichever one suits your day. Andros has fields at Fresh Creek in the middle of the island, at San Andros in the north and at Congo Town in the south, and they are all short hops from Florida.
Because the aircraft is yours, the choice is made with you at the enquiry rather than handed to you, and it is usually decided by which one makes the drive to the ferry dock shortest on the day.
Do we have to connect through Nassau?
No. That is the step a charter removes. Scheduled travel to the out islands generally routes through a larger airport and leaves you waiting for a smaller aircraft afterwards. Your charter flies straight across to Andros and clears in where it arrives, and once your party is in the country any further leg that day is domestic.
Do I need a passport for Kamalame Cay?
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 both sides before departure, and the travel documents page sets out what each passenger provides and by when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
About thirty minutes. Both ends of this crossing are general aviation, so there is no terminal to cross and no queue to join. You park, walk to the aircraft and go, and the outbound filing has already been made from our side before you arrive.
Can we change the passenger list after booking?
Yes, up to the day before in most cases. A name added or dropped means we refile the manifest and the flight is otherwise unchanged. Tell us as early as you can, because it is the paperwork that needs the notice rather than the aircraft.
Can we fly on to another island the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can string legs together in the order you want rather than return to a hub between them, and the fields 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 hours are worth to you. The aircraft costs what it costs whether it is full or not, so the figure 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 half day you get back at each end by not routing through a hub. 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 hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs field to field. If the pickup needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane and we can collect you there instead.
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 the dock or a table held for the afternoon, say so at the same time and it comes back priced with 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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