The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Rum Cay
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat next to strangers, you are booking the aircraft. That one difference decides everything else about the day: who is on board, what hour it leaves, and where it puts you down at the far end.
Rum Cay sits 367 miles out from the city, far enough that the way you get there decides what the day is worth. Scheduled travel out this far means a large airport first and a wait after it. A chartered aircraft goes to Port Nelson, which is where you were going, and the hours that would have gone into the connection stay in the day.
Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the clearance stop on the way 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 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 Rum Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Rum 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 Rum Cay CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list is written by you and nobody adds to it
A charter carries the people you name and no one else. There is no seat map to be assigned around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything.
It also means the party can change up to the day before: a name added, a name dropped, a child who turns out to be coming after all. We refile and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
The departure time is a decision rather than a listing
Scheduled service leaves when it leaves, and on a route this far out that usually means one departure a day into a hub and whatever connects after it. A charter leaves when you want it to, inside daylight and inside what the crew is legally allowed to fly.
On a crossing to Rum Cay that is what decides whether the island gets an afternoon or only an arrival. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal, not through an airport
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 far end you step off onto an island of ninety people, where there is no terminal to cross and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
The Clearance
The stop that clears you into the country is arranged around you
Rum Cay is not a port of entry, so the flight touches one on the way in and carries on. That stop is ours to choose and ours to file, and it is picked to suit your routing rather than an airline's.
The crew handles the desk while your party stays with the aircraft, and the leg after it is a domestic hop of a few minutes.
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, and out here it may not be the same day at all.
On a charter it is the hour you name on the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island. Lunch can run long, the boat can come back late, and the aircraft is still at the strip.
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 Rum 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 Rum Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Rum 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 crossing this long the hour you name is what decides how much of the island you actually get.
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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 your house or back to the strip.
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 Rum Cay from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft sets down at Port Nelson, a few minutes from the only settlement on the island, 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 Rum Cay CharterWhere You Clear In Is a Choice Too
Before the IslandRum Cay does not sit on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so the flight touches one on the way and carries on. On a scheduled routing that would be a connection with a wait behind it. On a charter it is a few minutes on the ground while the crew walks the paperwork through. Which field is used is a decision rather than a fixture.
San Salvador, George Town in the Exumas or Cat Island are all sensible options, and the one that suits your aircraft, your routing and your date comes back with the quote. Your party stays with the aircraft throughout. After it, the leg on to Port Nelson is domestic, and so is every leg you add later in the day.
Straight In to Port Nelson
No Hub First
The island has its own field and the aircraft uses it. That single sentence is most of what a charter buys on a crossing this far out: the alternative is a large airport, a wait, and something smaller afterwards, and it usually costs the better half of a day. What that returns to you is the afternoon.
A party that leaves Miami early is on the island before the heat comes up, with the whole of it still ahead rather than an arrival and a hotel. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and it is waiting when the door opens, which on an island this size is worth more than it sounds.
An Island of Ninety People
Arrange It First
Port Nelson is the only settlement and the resident population is around ninety. There is no rank of cars at the strip, no counter to hire from and nothing that runs to a timetable, which catches out parties who expect to sort the ground out on arrival.
With your own aircraft the fix is simple, because the flight and the day are arranged in the same conversation. A cart, a driver, a table held somewhere for the afternoon: name it when you send your dates and it is standing there when you land.
What there is to do once you are moving belongs on the Rum Cay destination page rather than here, and a day built around lunch somewhere specific is a fly and dine day. Anything more particular than that is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
Surf on the North Shore
Unusual Out Here
The north coast picks up real surf, which is rare in the Bahamas and is the reason a certain kind of party comes here rather than somewhere closer. It is on the opposite side of the island from the settlement, so it is a drive and not a walk.
This is where an open return hour earns its keep. A group tied to a published departure sees the north shore for an hour and turns round. A chartered aircraft has nowhere else to be, so the afternoon is as long as the swell deserves and the crew is told on the way back rather than in advance.
Conception Island, a Boat Ride North
The Park Next Door
Conception Island lies about twenty nautical miles away and is an uninhabited national park. There is nothing built on it and nothing to land on, so it is reached by boat from Rum Cay and left exactly as it was found.
Parties who want it usually want a full day for it, and that is the version of the trip a charter makes possible: the boat goes out in the morning because nobody is watching a return flight, and the aircraft leaves when the boat is back. Tell us the shape of it at the enquiry and the hours are built around the water .
San Salvador and Long Island the Same Day
Two Islands, One Day
San Salvador is thirty nautical miles east and Long Island lies to the west, and both have their own fields. On a scheduled routing, seeing two of them in one trip means going back through a hub between them and losing a day to it. An aircraft that belongs to you does not go back for anything.
It lifts off Port Nelson, puts down at Cockburn Town or Deadman's Cay, waits while you do whatever you came for, and brings you home in the evening. That is an island hopping day, and it is priced as one movement rather than as three flights.
Staying Over, or Turning Round
Your Return Hour
Both versions of this trip work and the aircraft does not care which you pick. A same day return out of Rum Cay is a long day but a real one, because the hours at each end are yours rather than published. If you stay, the return hour is set on the morning you want to leave and can still move after that.
Nothing is being held open for other passengers, so a boat that comes in late or a last morning worth another two hours is a message to us and not a rebooking. The only fixed limits are daylight and what the crew is allowed to fly.
Carrying On Down the Chain
Your Itinerary
Rum Cay is often one stop of several rather than the whole trip, and clearing in on the way makes 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.
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 a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a Rum Cay getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Rum 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 Rum 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 Rum Cay: The Crossing, the Clearance and the Strip at Port Nelson
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft goes to the island itself instead of to the nearest big airport, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Rum Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Rum 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. San Salvador is the closest at about thirty nautical miles, George Town in the Exumas and Cat Island are the others that sit on a sensible line. Everything between the two ends is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the clearance stop on the way and the travel documents the Bahamas wants before you leave Florida. San Salvador, George Town in the Exumas or Cat Island are all sensible options, and which one is used depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. 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. 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 Rum Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Rum 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 Rum 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. A charter departs where the drive is shortest for your party, or where the clearance stop on the way out works best for the end of the day. 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 Rum Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Rum Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Rum 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 Rum Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Rum Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Rum 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 Rum Cay is for. San Salvador, George Town in the Exumas or Cat Island are all sensible options, and which one is used depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for; the rest is yours. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening. Others stay on and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same charter, and the whole group travels together on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. Everything is in place before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Rum Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Rum Cay actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, the clearance stop on the way in, 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 a crossing this long. 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.
Most parties leave early and come back in the afternoon, but a dawn departure and a late return are both normal requests rather than exceptions. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you think is on offer.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group because a connection did not hold.
It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before the flight: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Rum Cay?
No. Rum Cay has its own field at Port Nelson and the aircraft uses it. Connecting through a larger airport and waiting for an onward departure is what scheduled travel to this part of the chain usually requires, and it is the step a private charter removes.
The stop the flight does make is the clearance stop, which is a few minutes on the ground rather than a connection.
Where does the flight clear customs?
Somewhere on the way in, because Rum Cay is not itself a port of entry. San Salvador, George Town in the Exumas or Cat Island are all sensible options, and which one is used depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date.
You are told which before you fly and it comes back with the quote. Your party stays with the aircraft while the crew handles the desk, and the leg on to Port Nelson afterwards is domestic.
Do I need a passport for Rum Cay?
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 island the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on down the chain rather than return to a hub first, and the fields around Rum Cay take the same type.
San Salvador is a few minutes east, Long Island and Cat Island lie to the west, and none of them require going back the way you came. 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 what the connection costs you at each end on a route this far out. 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 cart at the strip or a table held 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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