The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Moore's Island
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 which field it puts you down on at the far end.
Moore's Island sits in the Bight of Abaco, twenty-eight miles west of the Abaco mainland, and it has a field of its own. Scheduled travel to an island like this one is built around somewhere else.
You fly into a larger airport, wait, and finish the journey on a boat or on something smaller. A chartered aircraft goes to the island rather than towards it, which is the whole point of having it to yourself.
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 quieter crossings we fly and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft also flies on to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Moore's Island Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island 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.
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. On a run out to Moore's Island that is what makes the day work at all, because the island has no evening service to fall back on. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Field
Where the aircraft stops rolling is your decision, not a timetable's
This is the half people notice last. Because the aircraft is held for one party, nobody else decides where it lands. Moore's Island has its own, so the aircraft goes there. If the day is better served by Sandy Point or Marsh Harbour on the Abaco mainland, it goes there instead, and that is a sentence in an email rather than a different booking.
The Border
Clearing in happens on the way, and none of it is yours to do
The field on Moore's Island is not a port of entry, so a Bahamas-bound charter clears in somewhere on the line before it. Which place the clearance happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote.
Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are both ports of entry and both sit close to the track. Whichever it is, the filing is ours and the walk is short.
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 boat can come back late, 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.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Moore's Island
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 Moore's Island
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Moore's 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 where you want to travel. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. On this route a field on the island itself means 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 the aircraft that fit your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group on the same aircraft costs 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 or a golf cart waiting when you land, ground transport to where you are staying or back to 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 right at your destination, and enjoy the day.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Moore's Island from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling on the island itself, a few minutes' walk from where the settlements begin, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no return departure to work back from and no group 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 Moore's Island CharterStopping on the Island and Not Near It
No Onward HopThe field here belongs to the island rather than to a region, which is the single thing that shapes a day out this far. A charter that can use it puts your party on Moore's Island in one movement, and the walk from the aircraft is measured in minutes. What that buys is the middle of the day.
An itinerary that ends at a larger airport spends an hour and a boat getting the last twenty-eight miles across the Bight, and it spends the same hour again going back. On a charter those two hours stay in the day rather than in the travelling. From there the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
Clearing In Somewhere on the Way
One Short Stop
Moore's Island is not a port of entry, so a Bahamas-bound charter clears in before it arrives. Which place the clearance happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote. Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour both hold that status and both sit close to the track.
The part worth knowing is how little of it is yours. The filings go in from our side while you are still in Florida, so the stop is a short one and the desk is expecting the aircraft. Your party stays together, hands over passports it already has, and is back in the air shortly after.
Everything after that clearance is a domestic leg, so a day can carry on to another island without going near a hub again.
Hard Bargain and The Bight
Two Settlements
Around nine hundred and fifty people live here, in two settlements. Hard Bargain is the larger of them and The Bight sits along the shore from it. There is no resort strip and no row of hotels, which is precisely why parties who come here come back.
A private aircraft matters more in a place like this than in a place with infrastructure to absorb a late arrival. There is no next flight and no desk to rebook at. When the aircraft is held for your party, the day does not depend on either of those existing.
What there is to see once you are on the road belongs on the Moore's Island destination 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.
The Boats Go Out at First Light
The Working Island
Fishing and crawfishing are the working life of the island, not a visitor attraction bolted onto it. The boats leave early and the day on shore is shaped around when they come back in. That is an argument for a charter rather than a scheduled seat, because a party that wants to see any of it has to be on the ground before the morning is spent.
A chartered aircraft can leave Florida at an hour that makes that possible, and it can wait until the afternoon is genuinely finished before it takes you home. If the water is the reason for the trip rather than the island, the flats fishing day is the page for it and it runs on a different aircraft.
Seven Miles End to End
Bigger Than It Reads
The island runs about seven miles long and three and a half across, which is a great deal of ground for the number of people on it. Distances here are real distances, and nothing about getting around is quick on foot.
Ask for ground transport at the enquiry rather than on arrival. It is waiting when the door opens, and on an island this shape that is worth more than it sounds: there is no rank to walk to and nothing to hail.
What Comes With You
Weighed, Not Counted
When one party has the aircraft, what goes in the back is a question of weight rather than a rule about how many bags each passenger gets. Rods, a cooler, a case of something for the house, the things a family brings when the island has no shop for them: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
Because nobody else is aboard, the trade sits 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 into the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Choosing a Different Field Entirely
Your DecisionThe Abacos are full of small fields and a charter can use them. Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are on the mainland across the Bight, Treasure Cay is further up the eastern shore, and Scotland Cay and Walker's Cay are private fields out among the cays. None of that is theoretical.
Parties regularly fly out to one field, spend the day here, and ask to be collected from another because the boat ended up somewhere else. With your own aircraft that is an email rather than a second booking, and it is the clearest example of what the word private is doing on this page.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Moore's Island is often one stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in on the way is what keeps that simple: once your party is through, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like.
Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros and Staniel Cay and the Exumas 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 Moore's 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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: The Bight of Abaco Without a Hub
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, which field the aircraft uses at the far end, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Moore's Island: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Moore's Island 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 in between is about a hundred and forty-six nautical miles wide and there is almost nothing on it. 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. From your party's point of view it is a short stop with the paperwork already done, and then the last few minutes across the Bight. 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. 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 Moore's Island from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Moore's Island
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 Moore's Island and which water in the city suits your morning. The aircraft belongs to your party for the day, so all three are your decision rather than a departure somebody else set, and a change the week before is a message to us. Half an hour before the lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go on in front of you, and the list for that flight carries your names and nobody else's. Nothing about the morning waits on a stranger. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice and not a given. And the crossing is a reason in itself. The windows are deep and the aircraft crosses low, so there is room for everybody to sit and watch the water change instead of taking turns at one of them.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Moore's Island: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Moore's Island crossing
A private plane from Miami to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Moore's Island
A private private plane from Miami to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island is for. Which place it happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote. A reunion where twelve people with roots on the island arrive together instead of in threes across a week. 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 Moore's Island: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Moore's 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 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.
Parties coming for the fishing usually want an early start, and parties coming to see family often want a late return. Both are normal requests rather than exceptions. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no 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.
Do we have to connect through Nassau or Marsh Harbour to reach Moore's Island?
No. The island has a field of its own and the aircraft uses it, so there is no onward hop and no boat at the end. Connecting through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually requires, and it is the step a private charter removes.
The one stop on the way is the border clearance, because the field here is not a port of entry, and that is short and already filed when you get to it.
Where do we clear customs and immigration?
Somewhere on the line before the island, because the field on Moore's Island is not a port of entry. Which place the clearance happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote.
Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are both ports of entry on the Abaco side and both sit close to the track. Your party does nothing either way: the filings are made from our side before you leave Florida.
Do I need a passport for Moore's 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 the Florida end, because it is 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 land somewhere else in the Abacos on the same trip?
Yes, and it is one of the more common requests on this route. Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are on the mainland, Treasure Cay is up the eastern shore, and Scotland Cay, Spanish Cay and Walker's Cay are small fields further out.
An aircraft that belongs to you can use any of them in any order, and once your party is cleared in, every leg after that is domestic. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than several 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.
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 where the comparison usually turns.
On a route like this one there is a second thing a fare comparison does not show, which is the connection and the boat leg a scheduled itinerary would add at the far end. 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 day has anything else in it, a car waiting 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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