The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Sandy Point
A charter is not a ticket. You are not buying a seat next to strangers, you are booking the aircraft. That one difference decides the rest of the day: who is on board, what hour it leaves, and which field it uses at the far end.
Sandy Point sits at the southwest tip of Great Abaco, and it has a field of its own, so there is no reason to put you down an hour north of where you are going.
Scheduled travel into the Abacos arrives at Marsh Harbour and leaves the last hour of the journey to a car. A chartered aircraft finishes the journey, 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 several small plane routes from Miami, and the same aircraft carries on to the rest of the Bahamas on the same day if you want it to.
Plan Your Sandy Point Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point CharterThe Manifest
The passenger list for Sandy Point is written by you and nobody adds to it
The passenger list is yours and it closes when you send it. There is no seat map to be assigned around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to arrive early to secure anything.
The party can also 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 hour you leave Miami 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. That is what makes a same day return to Sandy Point work at all, because the hour home is set by your afternoon rather than by the next available departure. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits. It has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
Both ends of this route are private aviation, so there is no airport to cross
In Florida you park, walk to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. At Sandy Point the border desk is at the field itself, a mile from the village at the southwest tip. There is no terminal, no queue, and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
The Destination
You name the field at the far end, and on this route that changes the day
Everything scheduled into the Abacos arrives at Marsh Harbour, and the last hour of the journey to the south end happens by road. A chartered aircraft is not routed through anybody's hub, so it goes to the small airport beside the village instead. That hour is the clearest thing a charter buys on this particular crossing, and it is bought twice, once each way.
The Return
The way home from Sandy Point belongs to you the way the outbound did
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 you are still on the island.
That is what turns a crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: the tide can run late, lunch can run long, and the aircraft is still sitting there.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a private 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 Sandy Point
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 Sandy Point
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Sandy Point 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. If the day is built around a tide, say so and we work to that instead.
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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, with seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group 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 onward from the field. 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 Sandy Point from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at the southwest tip of Great Abaco, a mile from the village, and from that moment nothing about the day is written down anywhere. There is no return departure to work backwards from and no road journey left to allow for, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Sandy Point CharterThe Airstrip at the Southwest Tip
Where the Day StartsSandy Point is the last settlement on Great Abaco and the airstrip sits a mile south of it. That is the whole arrival: a short ride into the village, and the party is where it meant to be. What that buys a private group is the middle of the day.
A journey that ends at a larger airport spends an hour on the road afterwards, and an hour is what separates a day out from an overnight.
Here the filing is made before you leave Florida, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of the desk is usually a matter of minutes. After that the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over your party.
The Village at the End of the Road
A Working Place
Sandy Point is a fishing settlement rather than a resort, low and spread along the shore, and most of what happens in it happens on the water or on the way to it. There are a few places to eat and not much that keeps an advertised timetable.
That suits an aircraft you control and frustrates one you do not. A party tied to a published return has to build the afternoon around a departure. Yours does not exist yet, so lunch can be decided at noon. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and a car is waiting when the door opens.
The Flats and the State of the Tide
Why the Hour Matters
The shallow water either side of the point is what brings most parties here, and it is not the same water at every hour of the day. The tide decides when it is worth standing in, and the tide is not negotiable. This is where a chartered aircraft stops being a comfort and starts being the reason the day works.
Tell us the hour the water is right and the departure is set backwards from it, including an hour no schedule would ever publish. A day built around flats fishing or around a fishing day by air is the most common shape this route takes.
Inland, Behind the Settlement
The Pine Forest
The south end of Great Abaco carries a national park of some twenty thousand acres, a good part of it Caribbean pine, set aside in 1994 for a parrot that nests on the ground rather than in trees. It is a short distance inland from the village and it is quiet in a way the coast is not.
Whether it is part of your day is a decision you can make on the morning rather than at the booking, which is the practical difference an aircraft with no onward schedule makes. Anything more particular than a drive out and back is a custom request and we would rather hear it early than well.
The Coast North of the Point
Birds and Empty Shore
The shoreline running north from the point is largely uninhabited, and the rocky stretch of it is known among birdwatchers for frigatebirds working the wind above the coast. There is nothing built there and nothing to book. It is the sort of thing that only fits into a day with slack in it.
A group that has to be back at a terminal by a set hour never goes. A group whose aircraft is waiting decides at two o'clock that there is time, which is the same freedom that makes a scenic flight on the way home worth asking about.
Across the Bight to the West
Another Small Field
Moore's Island lies west of Sandy Point across the Bight of Abaco, with two small settlements on it and an airstrip of its own. By boat it is a crossing. By air it is a short hop.
A chartered aircraft can put both in one day because nobody else is waiting for it in between. That is the same logic that lets a party take in Treasure Cay or Green Turtle Cay further north on the way back rather than choosing between them at the booking stage.
What Comes With You
One Party, One Payload
When the aircraft carries a single party, the back of it is a question about weight rather than a count of bags. Nobody else is sharing the allowance, so the trade is between your own passengers and your own load and you are the one who decides where it falls.
In practice that is what makes the day possible for the groups who come here: the gear that a fishing party or a family of eight actually travels with, taken as one total rather than as a rule per person.
The baggage guidance sets out how that is worked out. Anything beyond luggage is a different service on the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Carrying On the Same Day
Your Itinerary
Sandy Point is often the first stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in any order you like.
Marsh Harbour, Hope Town, Harbour Island, Nassau 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 Sandy Point getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point: The Southwest Tip Without the Marsh Harbour Detour
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who does the paperwork, why the aircraft finishes the journey at the southwest tip instead of handing the last hour to a car at Marsh Harbour, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Sandy Point: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Sandy Point 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 distance from Miami is about 175 statute miles, close to 152 nautical, and almost all of it is open water. Sandy Point sits at the southwest tip of Great Abaco, and it has a field of its own, so there is no reason to put you down an hour north of where you are going. 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. Sandy Point is itself on the Bahamian ports of entry list for the Abacos, so the crossing can end where you actually wanted to be. 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 Sandy Point from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Sandy Point
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 Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Sandy Point crossing
A private plane from Miami to Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Sandy Point
A private private plane from Miami to Sandy Point 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 Sandy Point is for. Many of the private charters we fly on this route exist because of a date rather than because of a destination. A proposal that needs the right hour and nobody else in the cabin to see it coming. 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 Sandy Point: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Sandy Point 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.
If the day is built around a tide or a boat, tell us that instead of a time and we work back from it. Most parties leave in the morning and return in the afternoon, but an early departure and a late return are both normal requests rather than exceptions.
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 fly into Marsh Harbour and drive down to Sandy Point?
No. That is what scheduled travel into the Abacos asks of you, and it is the step a private charter removes. Sandy Point has its own field at the southwest tip of Great Abaco, roughly a mile from the village, and a chartered aircraft uses it.
Marsh Harbour stays useful as an alternative if the day needs it, and it has its own page, but it is no longer the only way in.
Do I need a passport for Sandy Point?
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.
Where do we clear customs and immigration?
At Sandy Point. The field is on the Bahamian ports of entry list for the Abacos, so the crossing ends where you wanted it to end rather than at a larger airport first.
Clearing in there is arranged in advance as part of the booking, which is our side of the work, not yours. If a particular day makes another port of entry the better choice, we tell you before you confirm rather than on the morning.
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 private 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 your party is cleared in at Sandy Point, every leg after it is domestic, and the aircraft can carry on rather than return to a hub first. The fields further up the Abacos take the same type, and so do the Exumas. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as two separate 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 two hours of road this route otherwise spends, one in each direction. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane collect us from a marina or a hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs airport to airport. If the pickup needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can collect you there.
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 at the field or a guide meeting you in the morning, 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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