The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Long Island Bahamas
A charter is not a ticket with more room around it. You are not buying a seat next to somebody you have never met, you are booking the aircraft. Everything else about the day follows from that one difference: who is aboard, what hour it leaves, and which end of the island it rolls to a stop on.
Long Island runs about eighty miles from top to bottom and is barely four miles across at its widest, so where you land is not a detail here. It is most of the day.
There are two fields on it and roughly fifty miles of road between them. A schedule picks one for you. An aircraft that belongs to your party for the day is planned to whichever one your house, your boat or your lodge is actually near.
What lies 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 a morning ahead of it.
It is one of the longer Bahamian crossings we fly and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries straight on across the rest of the Bahamas once you have cleared in.
Plan Your Long Island Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane Miami to Long Island Bahamas Charter Actually Works
Six things change the moment an aircraft belongs to one party for a day, and none of them is a feature of the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Long Island CharterThe Manifest
You write the passenger list and it closes when you send it
A charter carries the people you name. There is no seat map to be arranged around, nobody unknown in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything. It also stays editable almost to the day: a name added, a name dropped, a grandchild who turns out to be coming after all. We refile the manifest and it is the same flight.
The Clock
Departure is a decision your party makes, not a listing you read
A scheduled service leaves when it leaves. A charter leaves when you say, inside daylight and inside what the crew may legally fly.
On a crossing of this length that is what keeps a single day workable: leaving early enough puts your party on Long Island with the afternoon still whole rather than half spent. If your morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal instead of through an airport
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida you park, walk across to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. At the far end the border desk is a few steps from where you stop rolling. There is no concourse to cross and nothing your party has to carry further than the door.
The Field
Which of the two strips you land on is part of what you are booking
Two airfields on one island is not the usual arrangement, and on an island this long it changes the shape of the day. On a schedule the choice is made for you, and a party whose week happens at the other end pays for it in road time.
Send us the address you are heading for and the flight is planned to the field that saves that drive. Which one that turns out to be, and what sits around each of them, is set out further down this page.
The Return
The way home from Long Island belongs to you exactly as the way out does
A return leg on a scheduled service is an hour somebody else published. On a charter it is the hour you name in the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island.
That is what turns a long crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: the tide can run late, lunch can run long, and the aircraft is still standing on the strip.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a charter cannot 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 nobody else, moving it is a conversation and not a queue for the next available seat.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane to Long Island Bahamas from Miami
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
Booking a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Long Island Bahamas
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Long Island Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and which end of the island you are heading for. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. Two asphalt strips and a border desk at the far end mean 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 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 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 when you land, ground transport north to Cape Santa Maria or south to Clarence Town. Flowers if the day is a particular one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point 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 and land where the day is happening.
On the Island
Where Flying Private Plane from Miami to Long Island Bahamas Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling a few steps from the border desk, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no published return to work back from and no group of strangers to keep together, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route actually ask for, in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Long Island CharterLanding at the End of Long Island You Meant
Fifty Miles ApartLong Island is about eighty miles from top to bottom and the two airfields sit far apart on it: Stella Maris in the north, Deadman's Cay south of the middle. Between them runs the Queen's Highway, and the drive is the better part of an hour.
On a schedule the field is decided for you, and a party whose house is at the wrong end starts the holiday behind the wheel. When the aircraft is yours, the field is a line in the enquiry.
Tell us where you are sleeping and the flight goes to the nearer one. From there the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
Cape Santa Maria at the Top of Long Island
The North West Tip
The beach at the north west tip, out past Seymour's, is the one most people have seen a photograph of before they book. It is a long pale curve on the sheltered side of the island and it is usually close to empty. It is also the part of the day a fixed return quietly eats.
A party working backwards from a published departure leaves the north at the safe hour rather than the right one. On a charter the afternoon runs until the afternoon is finished, and a beach picnic out there is arranged with the flight rather than found on arrival.
Clarence Town and Southern Long Island
The Capital End
Clarence Town is the island's capital and sits down in the south, with its harbour, its two churches on the hills above it and the marina where visiting boats tie up. Deadman's Cay is the field for it. This is where a second choice of airfield earns its keep.
A group joining a boat at the marina lands twenty minutes away rather than fifty miles away, and the morning stays a morning. What there is to see once you are on the road belongs on the Long Island destination page rather than here.
A Bonefishing Morning on the Long Island Flats
Tide, Not TimetableThe flats along the west side are among the better known bonefishing grounds anywhere, and they are worked on the tide rather than on the hour. A window opens, it lasts a few hours, and then it is gone. That is the one thing a timetable genuinely cannot accommodate.
Tell us what the water is doing on your date and the departure is set around it, out and back, instead of the other way round. Days built that way are flats fishing rather than a flight with fishing attached, and a longer version is a fishing day by air.
Hamilton's Cave and the Long Island Interior
An Hour If You Want It
Inland from Deadman's Cay, near the settlement at Hamilton's, there is a cave system open for guided visits, and further north at Seymour's a monument stands on the headland for Columbus. Neither is a whole day and that is exactly why they usually get cut.
They are the sort of stop a party drops when the return flight is fixed and the margin is thin. With your own aircraft the margin is whatever you decide it is, so an hour inland costs the day nothing. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
A Table Held and a Cart Waiting on Long Island
Arranged, Not Found
There is no rank of cars at either strip and no counter to ask at. What your party has on the ground here is what was arranged before it left Florida, and that is a practical argument for chartering rather than a romantic one.
Because we hold the aircraft and the hour, everything else can be pinned to them: a cart or a car at whichever field you land at, ground transport up or down the Queen's Highway, a table held somewhere specific for the middle of the day. A day built around lunch at one place is a fly and dine day.
What Travels With You to Long Island
Weighed, Not Counted
When one party has the aircraft, what goes behind the seats is a conversation about weight rather than a rule about how many bags each person may bring. Rods and a wading pack, a cooler for the boat, a case of something for the house, clubs: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
Because nobody else is aboard, the trade sits between your own guests and your own load and you decide where it falls. The baggage guidance sets out how that works. Anything larger than luggage is a different service on the same strip, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Carrying On From Long Island the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Long Island is often one stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in makes the rest simple: every leg after it is domestic, so nothing sends you back through a hub to start again. An aircraft that belongs to you can string those legs together in any order you like.
Exuma, Nassau, Staniel Cay, Andros and Harbour Island all take the same type. That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Long Island getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas: One Party, One Aircraft, Two Airfields
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is aboard, who files the paperwork, why the choice between the two airfields belongs to your party, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Long Island Bahamas: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
A window each on a Miami to Long Island Bahamas 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 north end of Long Island lies about 345 statute miles from downtown Miami, close to 300 nautical and Clarence Town at the southern end is nearer 375. Parties heading out to Long Island are almost always travelling together for a reason: a family with a house near Simms, four friends who took a lodge between them for a week of fishing, a crew joining a yacht at Clarence Town. On an island eighty miles long that quietly redraws the map: the field at the end of the flight is the one you name, not the one somebody else's schedule happens to serve that morning. On a charter the manifest is your list, and it closes the moment you hand it over. 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 Long Island Bahamas from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Long Island Bahamas
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 Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Long Island Bahamas crossing
A private plane from Miami to Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or a celebration on Long Island Bahamas
A private private plane from Miami to Long Island Bahamas 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 Long Island Bahamas is for. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for; the rest is yours. 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 Long Island Bahamas: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Long Island 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 price covers the flight 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 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 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.
On a crossing of this length that matters more than on a short hop, because an early departure is what turns the island into a day rather than a weekend. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you assume is on offer.
Which airport should we fly into, Stella Maris or Deadman's Cay?
Whichever one is nearer to where your day happens. Stella Maris is at the north end and Deadman's Cay is south of the middle, close to Clarence Town, and there are roughly fifty miles of road between them.
On a charter that choice is a line in the enquiry rather than a different booking. Send us the address you are heading for and the flight is planned to the field that saves your party the drive.
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 departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to connect through Nassau?
No. The island has its own asphalt and its own border desk, so the aircraft flies straight there and clears in on arrival. Connecting through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually requires, and removing that step is most of what a private charter is for.
The same holds afterwards: once you are cleared in, an onward leg to another island is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport for Long Island?
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 made from our side before you arrive, so there is nothing to hand in and nothing to print.
Can we fly on to Rum Cay or San Salvador the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on instead of returning to a hub, and Port Nelson on Rum Cay, San Salvador, New Bight on Cat Island and Colonel Hill on Crooked Island all take the same type. Send the whole itinerary with your dates and it comes back as one day rather than as several bookings.
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 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 never shows up in a fare comparison is the hour you get back at each end of a long crossing, and the drive you do not have to make because you landed at the right field. 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 airport to airport. If the pickup or the drop needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can meet 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 guide booked 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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