The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Moriah Harbour Cay
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat beside strangers, you are booking the aircraft. That one difference decides the rest of the day: who sits in the cabin, what hour it leaves Florida, and which field it rolls to a stop on at the far end.
The park itself has no runway, so the aircraft lands at Exuma International and the last twenty minutes are a boat. What a charter removes is the part before that. Scheduled travel to this end of the chain is built around a connection, and the connection is what costs you the morning. Here the aircraft flies the whole way in one leg and clears in where it lands.
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 longer crossings we fly in a day out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on up the chain to the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Moriah Harbour Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Moriah Harbour Cay from Miami Actually Works
Six things change the moment the aircraft belongs to one party for the day, and none of them are about the aircraft itself.
Plan Your Moriah Harbour 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 grandchild 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 crossing of this length that is what makes a single day work at all: leave early enough and the boat into the park still has the flat light of the morning on it. If the start slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Route
The aircraft flies the crossing in one leg instead of two
This is the part people feel most on a long run down the chain. A scheduled itinerary to this end of the Exumas is usually built around a larger airport and a wait, and the wait is where the day goes. A chartered aircraft leaves your departure point and lands at Exuma International, and the only stop between the two is the one you asked for.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal, not 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. At Exuma International the border desk is in the building beside the apron, and the walk to the far side of it is usually a matter of minutes rather than a queue.
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 in the morning, and it can move again while your party is still on the water.
That is what turns a crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: the boat can come back late, lunch on Great Exuma can run long, and the aircraft is still there.
After You Land
The boat and the car are arranged before you leave Florida
The last twenty minutes of this trip are not flown, and that is the part worth setting up in advance. A boat out of Elizabeth Harbour, a car waiting at the apron, a table held for the afternoon: all of it is booked with the flight rather than found on arrival.
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 Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Moriah Harbour 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. On a run this long an early departure is what makes the day work, and you can have one.
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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, the boat out to the park, a car at the apron, ground transport to your hotel. Flowers if the day is a special one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time and everything included come back.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just make sure you are there 30 minutes before. Then you take off, land at Exuma International, and the boat is waiting.
On the Water
Where a Private Plane Charter to Moriah Harbour Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft rolls to a stop at Exuma International, beside the border desk, 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 the day tends to take them.
Plan Your Moriah Harbour Cay CharterLanding Where the Border Desk Already Is
One Leg, No Hub
Clearing in is the one fixed point of the day, and on this route it happens at the field the aircraft was going to use anyway. Exuma International, just outside Moss Town on Great Exuma, is an airport of entry with customs and immigration on site, so there is no leg before the leg you wanted.
What that buys a private party is the morning. An itinerary that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it, and on a crossing this long an hour is the difference between a day out and an overnight.
Here the filing is done before you leave Florida and the walk from the aircraft to the far side of the desk is usually a matter of minutes. From there the day is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
The Run Out of Elizabeth Harbour
About Twenty Minutes
The park is reached from the water, and the short way in is the channel out of Elizabeth Harbour at George Town. It is around twenty minutes, which makes it a stretch of the day rather than a journey in its own right.
This is the step where a private schedule shows itself. A group tied to a published return works backwards from it all day and leaves the water early to be safe. A chartered aircraft has no such clock: you go out when the light is right, stay as long as the afternoon deserves, and come back in when you are finished.
Ask for the boat at the enquiry and it is waiting rather than found, which on this route is worth more than it sounds. If the boat is the part you would rather skip altogether, a seaplane to the park sets down on the water itself and is a different page and a different aircraft.
Dunes, Creeks and Blue Holes
The Park ItselfMoriah Harbour Cay sits in the gap between Great Exuma and Little Exuma and has been a national park under the Bahamas National Trust since 2002. It is not a beach with a name on it but a whole coastal system: sand dunes, mangrove creeks, blue holes, reef, coppice and sea grass beds, with no building on any of it.
For a party with its own aircraft that is an unusually easy place to spend a day, because there is nothing to book and nothing that closes.
What there is to see and do once you are ashore belongs on the Moriah Harbour Cay destination page rather than here, and a day built around one particular stretch of water is a custom request we would rather hear early than well.
Terns, Plovers and a Pair of Ospreys
Worth an Hour
The dunes and the creeks are nesting ground. Gull-billed and least terns breed here, along with nighthawks, oystercatchers and plovers, and a pair of ospreys keeps the cay as well. In the mangroves the same water is a nursery for crabs, crawfish, conch, mangrove snappers, yellowtails and groupers.
None of that runs to a timetable, which is the point on this page. Birds are an early morning or a late afternoon, and those are exactly the two hours a scheduled itinerary cannot give you. With the aircraft held for your party you pick the hour that suits the water and the light instead of the one that was on offer.
Kayaks, Rods and a Cooler
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. On a route that ends in a boat that matters more than usual, because the gear is the day: paddles, a rod for the flats, masks, a cooler for the sandbar.
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 in practice. Anything larger than luggage is a different service on the same apron, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Staniel Cay and Norman's Cay
Further Up the Chain
The Exumas run a long way north of George Town, and the fields along them are small. Staniel Cay has its own strip, so does Norman's Cay, and the same aircraft uses both. Neither of them handles customs, so the clearance belongs at the start of the day and everything after it is domestic.
This is the half of a charter that changes what a day can contain. A party with its own aircraft can put the park in the morning and a cay two hours north in the afternoon without going back to a hub in between. That is the shape of an island hopping day, and the wider chain is on the Exuma destination page.
A Car at the Apron, a Table on Great Exuma
Arranged With the Flight
Most parties on this route want something on Great Exuma at one end of the day, usually lunch and usually before the flight home. George Town and the settlements along the Queen's Highway are a short drive from the field, and a table held for the afternoon is the sort of thing that is easy in advance and awkward on arrival.
Ask for it with the flight and it is set up rather than searched for. Ground transport at the apron, catering on board for the way out, a day built around one particular restaurant as a fly and dine day: all of it is priced with the aircraft rather than added later.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Itinerary
The park is often one stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in at Exuma International is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk, 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.
Staniel Cay and the Exumas, Nassau, Harbour Island and Andros all take the same type, and none of them require going back to a hub first. That is the shape of a longer Bahamas day; a single park and back is a Moriah Harbour Cay day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour Cay: Two Exumas, a Channel and One Aircraft
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is in the cabin, who does the paperwork, which field the aircraft rolls to a stop on, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Moriah Harbour Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
A window each on a Miami to Moriah Harbour 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 crossing runs about 326 statute miles from downtown Miami, just over 283 nautical and almost every mile of it is open water. Customs and immigration are cleared on the way through, and on this route that costs no extra landing: Exuma International is itself an airport of entry, so the field the aircraft was going to use anyway is the field where the formalities happen. A party heading for a protected park is usually travelling together for a reason, a family with children who want the window, four friends who booked one house on Great Exuma between them, a crew joining a yacht in the harbour. 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 Moriah Harbour Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour 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. 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 Moriah Harbour Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Moriah Harbour Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or a celebration on Moriah Harbour Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Moriah Harbour 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 Moriah Harbour Cay is for. A birthday that leaves early enough for everybody to be in the water before noon. 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 Moriah Harbour Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Moriah Harbour Cay actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and the ground arrangements you ask for at either end, including the boat out to the park.
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 apron 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.
On a crossing this long most parties leave early and come back in the late afternoon, and both ends of that are a request rather than an exception. 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.
Does the aircraft land on Moriah Harbour Cay itself?
No. The park is protected and has no airfield, so the aircraft lands at Exuma International and the last stretch is a short boat ride out of Elizabeth Harbour, about twenty minutes from George Town. If you would rather skip the boat entirely, a seaplane sets down on the water instead and that is a different aircraft and a different page.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach the Exumas?
No. Exuma International has its own border desk, so the aircraft flies the crossing in one leg and clears in where it lands. Connecting through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to this chain usually requires, and it is the step a private charter removes.
The same is true further up the chain: once your party is cleared in, an onward leg to another cay is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport for the Bahamas?
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 another cay the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on up the chain rather than return to a hub first, and the fields at Staniel Cay and Norman's Cay take the same type.
Neither of those handles customs, so the clearance happens at Exuma International first and everything after it is domestic. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than three 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.
What does not show up in a fare comparison is the connection you do not sit through on a crossing this long. 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 boat out to the park 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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