The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Mayaguana
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.
Mayaguana lies 513 miles southeast of Miami and it is the last inhabited island before the Turks and Caicos, so the way you get there matters more here than almost anywhere else in the Bahamas. Scheduled travel reaches it by way of Nassau, and Nassau sits nearly 290 nautical miles back to the northwest. That is a detour with an overnight attached. A chartered aircraft flies the line instead.
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 the longest Bahamian crossing we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Mayaguana Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Mayaguana from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and on a crossing this long every one of them is worth more than it would be on a short hop.
Plan Your Mayaguana CharterThe Line
The aircraft flies Miami to Mayaguana direct instead of by way of Nassau
This is the first and largest difference, and it is geography rather than service. Mayaguana sits at the far southeastern end of the country. The scheduled network runs through the capital, so reaching the island on a published timetable means flying northwest to Nassau, waiting, then coming back southeast again.
A chartered aircraft has no network to respect. It leaves Florida pointed at the island and does not stop until it is there, and that single decision is usually what turns a two day journey into a morning.
The Manifest
You write the passenger list for Mayaguana 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 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 colleague who turns out to be coming after all. We refile the manifest with the Bahamian side and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
Departure for Mayaguana 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.
On a leg of this length the morning hour is what decides whether the island is a day or a stay, so it is worth naming the hour you actually want. If your morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal rather than through an airport
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida you park, walk to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already done from the departure point.
At the other end the field sits a few miles from Abraham's Bay and handles a handful of movements a day. There is no terminal to cross, no queue to join, and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
The Return
The way home from Mayaguana belongs to you in the same way the way out does
A return leg on a scheduled service is the hour somebody else published, and on this island that hour comes round only on certain days of the week.
On a charter it is the hour you name, and it can move again while you are still on the island. That is what lets a trip here be shaped around the fishing or the weather not around the next available departure.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a Mayaguana 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.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Mayaguana
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 Mayaguana
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Mayaguana Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and where you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. On this route the island has its own strip, so we can usually work to whatever you name.
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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 and the distance. Seats, baggage and range for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group on the same aircraft costs the same as a full one.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the pickup point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight. Catering on board, a golf cart waiting when you land, ground transport to where you are staying. 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 Mayaguana itself, and the day is yours.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Mayaguana from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft sets down at the island's own field, a few miles northwest of Abraham's Bay, and from that moment the trip is unscheduled. There is no return departure to work back from and no connection to protect, 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 Mayaguana CharterClearing In Where You Actually Land
No Stop on the Way
On most trips this far southeast the first landing in the country is not the destination. Mayaguana is the exception, because Abraham's Bay is itself on the Bahamian ports of entry list, so the aircraft clears in at the same field it was always going to. What that buys a private party is the afternoon.
A routing that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it, and on a leg of 513 miles that hour is the difference between arriving with the day intact and arriving at dusk.
The filings are done before you leave Florida and the desk keeps daytime hours, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of it is usually a matter of minutes.
From there the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you, and on an island served this thinly that is the whole difference.
Abraham's Bay Without a Return Time
The Settlement
Abraham's Bay is the largest of the island's three settlements and the one most parties stay in or pass through. It sits on the south coast behind a long reef, and the whole place is walkable in an afternoon. This is where the difference between a chartered aircraft and a published schedule shows itself quickest.
There is very little here that runs to a clock, and a party working backwards from a fixed departure ends up rationing the parts of the day that are worth the trip. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and something is waiting when the door opens, which on an island this size is worth more than it sounds.
Betsy Bay and Pirate's Well the Same Afternoon
The Far End
The other two settlements sit at the northwestern end, small enough between them that a visit is a drive rather than a day. Pirate's Well faces the long empty beaches on the north side; Betsy Bay is the last place on the road.
Getting to both in one afternoon and still flying out the same evening is the kind of plan that only works when the aircraft waits for you. On a published routing the drive is the thing that gets cut. Here it is a question of what time you want to be back at the field, and the answer is yours to give on the day.
The Flats Behind the Bay
Rods Travel With You
The flats and creeks behind Abraham's Bay are the reason a good many parties come this far at all. They see very little pressure, which is a consequence of exactly the remoteness that makes the journey awkward by any other means. A charter changes the fishing day in two practical ways. The gear comes with you rather than being shipped or rented, because nobody else is sharing the payload.
And the tide decides the hours rather than the timetable: if the water is right at six in the morning, that is when you are on it. A guided day on the water is a flats fishing arrangement and we book it with the flight rather than leaving it to you to find on arrival.
Booby Cay, Arranged Before You Fly
Off the East End
Booby Cay lies off the eastern end of the island and is named for the brown boobies that nest there. It is also home to rock iguanas found nowhere else, and the Arawak name of the island itself is said to refer to them.
Reaching it means a boat, and a boat here means somebody arranging one in advance rather than a counter you walk up to. That is the sort of thing that goes into the enquiry alongside the dates. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Loading an Aircraft That Is Only Yours
Weight, Not Bag Counts
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, because there is nothing to buy or hire once you are on the island.
Rods, a cooler, dive gear, a case of something for the house you have taken: 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 to the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
The Only Other Way Here Runs Through Nassau
What You Skip
It is worth being plain about the alternative, because it is what most people discover when they first look at getting here. Scheduled service to Mayaguana goes by way of the capital, and the capital lies roughly 290 nautical miles back to the northwest of the island.
That means a flight in the wrong direction, a wait, and an onward leg that runs on certain days rather than every day. In practice it usually costs a night at each end of the trip. A chartered aircraft does not touch any of it: it leaves the departure point you chose and lands on Mayaguana, and the two nights stay in your week instead.
Carrying On Down the Southern Chain
Same Aircraft
Mayaguana is often one stop of several rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you can string those legs together in any order you like.
Acklins, Crooked Island, Great Inagua and Long Island all take the same type, and none of them require going back to the capital first. That is the shape of an island hopping week or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Mayaguana getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana: Who Is on Board, Who Files, and What Hour You Leave
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on the aircraft, who does the paperwork, why it goes to the island instead of round by the capital, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Mayaguana: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Mayaguana 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. Scheduled travel reaches it by way of Nassau, and Nassau sits nearly 290 nautical miles back to the northwest. A party heading this far southeast is almost always travelling for one reason and as one group: a family taking a week, four anglers who have booked the same guide, a crew joining a yacht at anchor. 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. Mayaguana is unusual among the far out islands in that it is itself a listed port of entry, so your first landing in the country is also your destination. 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 Mayaguana from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Mayaguana
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 Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Mayaguana crossing
A private plane from Miami to Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Mayaguana
A private private plane from Miami to Mayaguana 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 Mayaguana is for. A reunion where eight people who all want to be somewhere quiet actually get there on the same aircraft, on the way out and on the way back. A birthday where the catering on board is part of the surprise rather than an afterthought. 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 Mayaguana: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Mayaguana 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 golf cart on arrival and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.
Do we have to go through Nassau to reach Mayaguana?
Not on a charter. Scheduled travel to the far southeastern islands is built around the capital, which means flying northwest to Nassau, waiting, and returning southeast on a day the onward service runs.
A chartered aircraft has no network to respect: it leaves Florida pointed at Mayaguana and lands there. That is usually the single biggest thing a charter changes on this route, because removing the connection removes the overnight that comes with it.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. On a leg of this length the hour you leave Florida is what decides how much of the day is left at the other end, so name the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
It is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
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.
Where does the aircraft land on Mayaguana?
At the island's own field, a few miles from Abraham's Bay on the south coast. It is a quiet place that sees a handful of movements a day, so there is no terminal to cross and no queue to join.
What the runway itself is made of and how long it runs belongs on the small plane page; what matters here is that the aircraft goes to the island rather than to the nearest airport with a schedule.
Do I need a passport for Mayaguana?
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 the paperwork is what needs the notice, not the aircraft.
Can we fly on to Acklins, Crooked Island or Great Inagua the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on down the southern chain rather than turn back, and Spring Point, Colonel Hill and Matthew Town all take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one routing rather than as separate flights, which is how most weeks down here are actually put together.
What if the weather turns on the day?
The trip moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather move a flight than fly it badly. You are told as early as we know, and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that works for your party. Because the aircraft was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat.
Is a private charter worth it for a group going this far?
It depends on the size of the party and on what the connection would cost you in time. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per person falls as the group grows.
What does not show up in a fare comparison is the night in Nassau that a scheduled routing usually adds at each end, and on a week-long trip that is two days. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
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 trip has anything else in it, a cart waiting 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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