The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Lyford Cay
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat next to strangers, you are booking the aircraft. That one difference decides everything else about the day: who is on board, what hour it leaves, and where it puts you down at the far end.
Lyford Cay sits at the western end of New Providence, and the island carries the country's main airport of entry four miles from the gates. So nothing about this crossing has to be assembled out of connections. Under an hour of flying puts your party on the same island as the address, and the last stretch is a short drive west rather than another flight.
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 wants 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.
It is one of the shortest international crossings we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft also flies on to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Lyford Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Lyford Cay from Miami Actually Works
Three things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and none of them are about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Lyford Cay CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list is written by you and nobody adds to it
A charter carries the people you name and no one else. There is no seat map to be assigned around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything. It also means the party can change up to the day before: a name added, a name dropped, a child who turns out to be coming after all.
We refile and the flight is the same flight. On a route where the address at the far end is often a private one, that list tends to be the same list the gate is expecting.
The Clock
The departure time is a decision rather than a listing
Scheduled service leaves when it leaves. A charter leaves when you want it to, inside daylight and inside what the crew is legally allowed to fly.
That is why a same day return from Lyford Cay works at all: you are back before the afternoon builds rather than waiting on the next available departure. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal, not through an airport
In Florida you park, walk to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already done from the departure point.
At the far end your party clears in and leaves by the general aviation side rather than the main concourse, which is the difference between a crossing that costs you a morning and one that costs you an hour. Nothing has to be carried further than the door of the car.
The Return
The way home belongs to you in the same way the way out does
A return leg on a scheduled service is the hour somebody else published. On a charter it is the hour you name on the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island.
That is what turns a crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: lunch can run long, the round of golf can go to nineteen holes, and the aircraft is still there.
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 nobody else, moving it is a conversation and not a queue for the next available seat.
After You Land
What happens on the ground is arranged before you leave Florida
A car at the aircraft, a golf cart waiting inside the gates, a table held somewhere for the afternoon: all of it is set up with the flight rather than found on arrival.
Four miles is a short drive when somebody is already holding a door open and a long one when nobody is. Tell us what the day is meant to look like when you send the dates and it comes back arranged, with ground transport and anything else you asked for priced alongside the aircraft.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Lyford 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 Lyford Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Lyford 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. The island has its own airport of entry, so we can usually work to that hour.
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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, not a headcount, so a smaller group 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 waiting at the aircraft or a golf cart inside the gates, ground transport to the house or 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 on the island itself, and enjoy the day.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Lyford Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling on the general aviation side of New Providence, a few minutes from the border desk and four miles from the gates, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no published return to work backwards from, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Lyford Cay CharterClearing In on the Island You Are Going To
No Hub FirstComing into the country is the one fixed point of the day, and here it happens on the same island as the address. New Providence carries the country's main airport of entry, so your party is cleared in and out of the building before most itineraries have finished their first connection. What that buys a private party is the middle of the day.
A flight routed through somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on the detour, and an hour is what separates a day trip from an overnight on a crossing this short. After that the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over your party.
Four Miles West in a Car You Booked With the Flight
Door to Gate
The last stretch of this journey is a road, and it is short: the gates sit at the western end of the island and the apron is about four miles east of them. Ten minutes, on a good road, past Old Fort Bay.
Whether those ten minutes feel like nothing or like the longest part of the day depends entirely on whether somebody is waiting. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and the car is at the aircraft when the door opens, with the driver already told where he is going. That is worth arranging in advance rather than sorting out in an arrivals hall.
A Gate That Opens on a Name
By Invitation
Lyford Cay is a private, walled community of roughly four hundred and fifty houses, with its own school, church, post office and hospital inside the wall. Getting in is a matter of being expected by somebody who lives or belongs there, not of buying a ticket.
This is where a chartered manifest and a gate list start to look like the same document. Your host names the people who are coming; the aircraft carries exactly those people and nobody else. There is no stranger in the party to explain at the barrier and no late arrival still in the air.
What there is to see and do once you are through belongs on the Lyford Cay destination page rather than here, and anything more particular than a car at the apron is a custom request we would rather hear early than late.
The Tee Time Decides the Departure
Par 72
The club course runs eighteen holes at par seventy-two over six thousand six hundred and ten yards, and it is not open to the public. For the parties who come for it, the round is the fixed point of the day and everything else moves around it. On a charter that is the right way round.
You name the hour you want to be on the island, we work the departure back from it, and if the round finishes late the aircraft is still on the apron. Twelve tennis courts and most of a mile of private beach sit on the same side of the wall, so a day here often turns into an afternoon nobody planned.
An Unhurried Hour at Clifton Heritage
Two Miles South
Two miles down the coast from the gates, a two hundred and eight acre national park opened in 2009 on the southwestern tip of the island. In the shallows off it stands Ocean Atlas, a five metre sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor weighing over sixty tonnes, and it is reachable on a snorkel rather than a tank.
Further along the same shore is Jaws Beach, where the aircraft wreck left behind by a 1987 film sits at snorkelling depth. Neither of these is a half-day excursion; both are an hour, and an hour is exactly the thing a published return flight takes away from you. With your own aircraft the only question is what time you want to be back at the apron.
Nassau If the Afternoon Turns East
Thirteen Miles
Downtown Nassau is thirteen miles east along West Bay Street, and the road passes the hotel strip on the way. Parties who came for the quiet end of the island sometimes decide at lunch that they want the other end too. That decision costs nothing on a charter and a great deal on a schedule.
Going into town and back is two hours of road, and two hours is the sort of thing you only add to a day when the flight home is a conversation rather than a gate closing. What there is at that end of the island has its own page: Nassau.
The Payload Is Shared With Nobody
Weighed, Not Counted
When the aircraft carries one party, what goes in the back is a conversation about weight rather than a rule about bag counts. That is a practical difference on this route more than a philosophical one. Golf clubs, a case of something for the house, a dog, a dress bag that should not be folded: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
Because nobody else is on board, the trade is between your own passengers 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 apron, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
A Second Island Before You Go Home
Your Order
Clearing in on arrival is what makes the rest of the day simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg after it is domestic and the aircraft is still yours. An aircraft that belongs to you can string those legs together in any order you like.
Harbour Island, Andros, Staniel Cay and the Exumas and Grand Bahama all take the same type, and none of them require going back to a hub first. That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Lyford Cay getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Lyford 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 Lyford 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 Lyford Cay: One Party, One Aircraft, One Island
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft goes to the island you named instead of the nearest big one, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Lyford Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Lyford 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 crossing runs about a hundred and fifty nautical miles, which puts it among the shorter Small Plane routes from the city. A household arriving together, a crew joining a yacht at the dock, six people who were all invited by the same host: the cabin is the same cabin the whole way across and what is said in it stays with the people you invited. Arriving on New Providence means arriving where the country's own airport of entry already is, so clearing in is the first thing that happens and the last piece of admin in the day. 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 Lyford Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Lyford 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 Lyford 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. 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 wants before you leave Florida. 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 Lyford Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Lyford Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Lyford 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 Lyford Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Lyford Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Lyford 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 Lyford Cay is for. A weekend where the whole guest list arrives at the gate at once, on the way out and on the way back, because one aircraft carried all of it. 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 Lyford Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Lyford Cay 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 at the aircraft and onward transport to the gates 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.
Which airport does a private plane to Lyford Cay use?
The island's own. New Providence carries the country's main airport of entry, and it sits roughly four miles east of the gates, so the aircraft lands there and the rest of the journey is a short drive west. That is what makes the crossing a single flight rather than a flight plus a connection, which is how scheduled travel to most Bahamian addresses works.
Does everyone need a passport, including children?
Yes, every passenger regardless of age. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We collect the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure, so nothing has to be printed or handed in on the day. The travel documents page sets out what each passenger gives us 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 on the Florida side, because you leave from general aviation. You park, walk to the aircraft and go. The outbound border filing is already done 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 the paperwork is what needs the notice, not the aircraft.
Can the same aircraft carry on to a second island?
Often yes. Once your party is cleared in, every leg after it is domestic, and the aircraft is still yours. Staniel Cay, Andros, North Eleuthera and Cat Island all take this type, and none of them require going back through a hub first. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than two 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 the aircraft was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat.
For a group of six or eight, how does a charter compare on cost?
The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per head falls as the party grows and a group of that size is where the comparison usually turns.
What a fare comparison never shows is the hour you get back at each end of the day, and on a crossing this short that hour is a large share of the journey. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane take us inside the gates?
No, and nothing can: the aircraft stops at the apron and the last few miles are a road. What we do instead is make those miles short and arranged, with a car or a golf cart waiting when the door opens rather than found afterwards. If the arrival needs to be at the marina rather than the airport, that is a seaplane and a different page.
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 apron or a table booked 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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