The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Nassau
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 whether Nassau is where you stop or simply where you clear in.
Nassau is the busiest place to arrive in the Bahamas, and for most travellers it is not the destination at all. It is the connection they have to make before the day can start.
An aircraft held for one party removes that step. It crosses in about an hour, clears in on the field, and then goes wherever the party is actually going, which is often somewhere a schedule does not serve.
Between the two ends, the work is ours. Choosing the field you leave from, the aircraft, the crew, two sets of border paperwork and the travel documents this country expects before wheels leave Florida. Your side of it is passports, a bag, and turning up half an hour before the aircraft goes rather than three hours before it does.
No crossing leaves this city more often than this one, and it is one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same type carries on into the rest of the Bahamas from here.
Plan Your Nassau Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Nassau 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 Nassau CharterThe Manifest
Your list is the list, and nobody at Nassau adds to it
Nobody is added to a chartered flight. The names you give us are the names that fly, which removes the two things that go wrong on a scheduled crossing to this island: a seat assignment that splits the group up, and a connection that leaves without half of it. Neither can happen when the airframe was reserved for one party.
The Clock
Nassau is an hour away, so the hour you leave decides the whole day
The water between the two ends measures 160 nautical miles, which is about sixty minutes of flying. That is short enough that the departure time, not the distance, is what shapes the day.
Leave at eight and lunch on the island is a normal plan. Leave at two because the morning ran over and the aircraft is still there, because it is not carrying anybody else afterwards.
The Terminal
The arrivals hall at Lynden Pindling is not where a charter goes
This is the busiest airport in the country and the queue inside it is the reason people dread the trip. A private arrival does not use it.
The general aviation side has its own apron and its own desk, and your party walks from the aircraft to it as a group. In Florida the same is true at the departure point: you park beside the aircraft and board from there.
The Onward Leg
Once Nassau has cleared you in, the rest of the Bahamas is domestic
This matters more here than anywhere else we fly, because most parties who land at Nassau are not finished. Clearing in happens once.
After that a leg to Eleuthera, to Andros or down to the Exumas needs no second border and no second airport of entry, and the aircraft that brought you is the one that takes you. A scheduled traveller does that part by waiting for a connection that runs twice a day.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a Nassau charter does not make flexible
Everything else here bends. Weather does not, and moving a day is always better than flying it badly. You hear from us as soon as we know and the flight is rebooked rather than flown. Because nobody else was booked on it, rebooking is a message between two people instead of a place in a line.
On the Ground
The traffic between the airport and Paradise Island is the part nobody plans for
The crossing takes an hour. Getting from the field to a hotel on the far side of the harbour can take a serious part of another one, and on an afternoon when several cruise ships are alongside it takes longer still.
A car arranged with the flight is waiting at the aircraft, and if the day ends at a dock rather than a hotel we hold the boat instead. Ask for ground transport when you send the dates and it is priced with the flight.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Nassau
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 Nassau
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Nassau Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send the dates, the headcount, which field suits your party and what the day is actually for. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. If this island is the destination, say so. If it is the border stop before Eleuthera or the Exumas, say that instead, because it changes the routing rather than the price.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
You get what is free on your date, with the seats, the baggage allowance and the flight time for each one. The number you are looking at is for the airframe, so six people and nine people pay the same and the figure per head falls as the group grows.
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Confirm and Pay
You choose the aircraft and we set the boarding time and the landing site. Then the parts of the day that are not flying: a car at the apron, a boat held east of the harbour, a table kept somewhere for the afternoon, catering on board if the crossing is the occasion rather than the commute. It comes back to you before anything is charged.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Early
Half an hour is enough because there is nothing to stand in. No terminal on either side, no queue, no bag drop. You walk out to the aircraft and it leaves.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to Nassau from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft sets down on the general aviation side of the field, the border desk is a walk rather than a hall, 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 Nassau CharterLanding at Lynden Pindling on the Private Side
No Arrivals HallClearing in is the one fixed point of the day, and here it happens where the aircraft stops rolling. Nassau is an airport of entry, so there is no leg before the leg you wanted and no second landing to lose an hour to. What that buys a private party is the morning.
Immigration comes first and customs after it, both on the field, and a private arrival does not join the hall the scheduled flights use. The paperwork was filed before you left Florida, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of the desk is usually a matter of minutes rather than the part of the trip people warn each other about.
From there the day is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over you.
Past Nassau to the Exumas the Same Morning
Nobody Waits
The four things asked about most on this route are the swimming pigs at Big Major Cay, Staniel Cay itself, Thunderball Grotto and the nurse sharks at Compass Cay. None of them are on this island. They are an hour further south, in the Exumas. That is the whole reason this page exists.
On a schedule the chain is fly, land, wait, change aircraft, fly again, and the waiting is what eats the day. On a charter the aircraft that brought you is the aircraft that carries on, and Staniel Cay has a field of its own.
A party that leaves Miami early is standing in shallow water with the pigs before the first scheduled connection of the day has boarded.
Whether that is one long day or an overnight is your call and not a timetable's. Send the shape of it at the enquiry and it comes back as an island hopping day rather than as separate flights.
Paradise Island and the Beaches
The Short Ride
Paradise Island sits across a bridge from the town and carries the resorts, the marina and Atlantis. Cable Beach runs west of the centre, Cabbage Beach faces the Atlantic on the far side of the bridge, and Junkanoo Beach is the one within walking distance of the cruise docks.
The distance is short and the traffic is not, which is the single most underestimated part of a day here. A car arranged with the flight is waiting at the aircraft rather than found afterwards, and on an afternoon when four ships are alongside that is the difference between an hour on the beach and an hour in a queue. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry.
Skipping Nassau Entirely
Your Call
Nothing about a charter says the island has to be the destination. It can be the border stop and nothing else, or it can be missed altogether when the routing allows it. Chub Cay and Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands both have their own fields and both are airports of entry.
So are Fresh Creek, San Andros and Congo Town on Andros. North Eleuthera sits closest to Harbour Island. Any one of them can be the first landing instead of this island, and the aircraft goes there because your party said so. Which of the fields your flight actually uses is decided with the routing and comes back with the quote.
That is a decision worth making at the enquiry rather than on the day, because it changes the filing rather than the flight. Tell us where the trip is really going and the routing is built backwards from that.
Rose Island and the Sandbars
An Afternoon
East of the harbour the water opens out and Rose Island runs along it, close enough for a boat ride and far enough that the beaches there are empty on a weekday. The sandbars between the cays come and go with the tide.
This is the classic half day for a party that flew in for the water rather than the town, and it is the reason to arrange the boat with the flight. An aircraft that waits means the afternoon can run until the light goes, and a beach picnic out there is set up in advance rather than improvised on a dock.
Fort Fincastle Above Nassau Harbour
Worth an Hour
The Queen's Staircase is cut into the limestone behind the town and climbs to Fort Fincastle above it, which is the highest point on this part of the island and the reason the fort is there. Both are a short ride from the harbour. Budget an hour, not a day.
It slots into the mornings when the water part of the trip has been put in the afternoon. Everything else there is to look at lives on the Nassau destination page. Building the whole day around one particular table makes it a fly and dine day instead, and anything narrower than that is a custom request, which we would much rather hear about early.
What Comes With You on a Private Plane
Weighed, Not Counted
One party in the cabin turns the back of the aircraft into an arithmetic problem rather than a policy question. Nobody counts your bags. Somebody weighs them. Dive tanks, a set of clubs, four rods, a cooler that has to reach the boat, a case of wine for the house on the eastern end: it all goes, up to what the aircraft can lift that day.
Since the payload is not being divided with strangers, where the line falls between people and freight is your decision. The baggage guidance explains the arithmetic. Past a certain size it stops being luggage. Pallets, engines and anything measured in cubic feet fly on the same field under island logistics, which is a different service and priced differently.
Carrying On From Nassau the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Clearing in here is what makes the rest of the week simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg after it is domestic and nothing sends you back through an arrivals hall again. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like.
Harbour Island, Andros, Grand Bahama, Exuma and Staniel Cay all take the same type, and none of them require coming back here first. That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Nassau day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Nassau from Miami?
A date and a headcount is enough to start. Back come the aircraft free that day, the cost of each, and the earliest hour it can go. Nothing is reserved until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Nassau Add-Ons
Name the ones you want with your dates and they come back priced next to the flight.
In Detail
Private Plane Charter Miami to Nassau: One Party, One Aircraft, One Crossing
Everything above describes the day. What follows is the machinery under it: who is permitted on board, who deals with two governments, why the aircraft does not have to treat this island as a terminus, and how far into the afternoon the departure hour can still slide on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Nassau: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Nassau 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 ClockNassau is an hour away, so the hour you leave decides the whole dayThe water between the two ends measures 160 nautical miles, which is about sixty minutes of flying. A charter leaves from whichever of ours is closest to where your party is sleeping the night before, and that is worth something on a morning when the flight itself only lasts an hour. Florida gets its outbound manifest and the Bahamas gets its inbound one, both before anybody boards, so nothing is printed and nothing is handed across a counter on the day. An anniversary where what is served on board was part of the plan rather than an afterthought. 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 Nassau from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Nassau
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 Nassau 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. Two of them swap the aircraft for one that can finish the journey on floats, and two of them are waiting on the ground when the door opens. 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 Nassau: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Nassau crossing
A private plane from Miami to Nassau crosses an international border twice in a day. It is the part that goes wrong when nobody files it in advance. 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. On a Crown Air charter the crew files all three. 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 Nassau: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a long weekend or something to celebrate on Nassau
A private private plane from Miami to Nassau 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 Nassau is for. A charter leaves from whichever of ours is closest to where your party is sleeping the night before, and that is worth something on a morning when the flight itself only lasts an hour. A sixtieth that leaves late enough for the ones flying in that morning to make it. 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 Nassau: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Nassau actually include?
The airframe and its crew for your party, both border filings, and whatever you asked us to arrange at either end. Because you are reserving the aircraft and not seats on it, the figure covers the flight whether five people travel or nine. Food on board, a car at the apron and onward transport are quoted alongside it when you ask for them.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, inside daylight and inside the hours the crew may legally work. On a sixty minute crossing that is the single most useful thing a charter buys, because the hour you leave decides what the day contains rather than merely when it starts.
The time is fixed when you confirm and can still move afterwards, since no other passenger is affected. Most parties go out in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but a dawn departure and an evening return are ordinary requests here. Name the hour you want rather than the one you assume is available.
Is anyone else on the flight?
No. The cabin carries the people you named and nobody else. No seat map, no second party, and no chance of leaving without part of your group because somebody's connection failed. It also means the list stays editable almost up to departure: a name in or out is a refiling here, not a rebooking there.
Can we fly past Nassau straight to the Exumas?
Yes, and it is asked for constantly on this route. Scheduled travel makes you change aircraft here; a charter has no reason to. Staniel Cay, Chub Cay and Great Harbour Cay all have fields that take the same type, so the whole thing flies as one day.
The border formalities are handled at whichever airport of entry the routing uses, and which one that is comes back with the quote. Send the entire itinerary when you enquire rather than just the first leg.
Do I need a passport?
Yes, every passenger, children included. This is a different country and a private aircraft does not alter that. Details are taken once at the enquiry and filed on both sides before departure. Our travel documents page sets out what each passenger provides and by when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
Thirty minutes. In Florida you drive to the aircraft and board, because the fields we use are general aviation. On arrival here the private side has its own desk rather than the hall the airlines feed into, so your group is handled as a group. The outbound filing was completed from our end before you set off, so there is nothing to present and nothing to print.
Can we change the passenger list after booking?
Usually yes, up to the day before. Adding or dropping a name means we file the manifest again and nothing else about the flight changes. Tell us early if you can, since it is the paperwork that wants the notice rather than the aircraft.
Can we do Nassau and another island in one day?
Frequently. Your party clears into the country once, and every leg after that counts as domestic, so the aircraft carries on rather than doubling back. Harbour Island, Andros, Grand Bahama and the Exumas all take the same type. Describe the whole day at the enquiry and it is quoted as one itinerary instead of two flights.
What if the weather turns on the day?
The day moves. That is the one thing chartering does not make negotiable, and moving a flight always beats flying it badly. You are told as soon as we know and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that suits your party. Since it was held for you and no one else, that is a conversation rather than a wait for the next available seat.
Is a private charter cheaper than scheduled flights for a group?
It turns on party size and on what the day is worth to you. The aircraft costs what it costs whether it flies full or half empty, so the figure per person drops as the group grows, and six to nine travellers is usually where the comparison tips.
What a fare comparison never shows is the connection you avoid at this end. Send a date and a headcount and you get real figures instead of an estimate.
Can you collect us from a marina or a hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane works airport to airport. Where the pickup has to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day is flown on a seaplane and we can come to you there.
How do we start?
Send a date, a headcount, the field you would rather leave from and the hour you have in mind. Back comes what is available, what each aircraft costs, the boarding time and what is covered, and nothing is held until you say the word.
If the day has other parts to it, a car waiting or a boat kept for the afternoon, mention them in the same message and they are quoted with the flight.
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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