Private Plane Charter Miami to Scotland Cay

The aircraft and the crew for your party, the landing permission for the strip on the cay, both border filings, the port of entry stop on the way through 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 cart on the island and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced with the aircraft.

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.

In practice most parties leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early 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.

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.

Yes. The cay has a strip of its own, so a private plane puts down on the island and there is no boat at the end of the day.

That is unusual among the private islands in this chain and it is the reason this route is short. The strip is for residents and their guests rather than a public field, so the landing is arranged in advance, and we do that arranging.

Permission is needed and we obtain it. The airstrip, the marina and the island itself are restricted to the owners and their guests, and the people who run the field decide who comes in.

Tell us at the enquiry whose house, boat or invitation you are travelling to and we take it from there, before the date is confirmed. If the permission cannot be had for your date, we say so early and offer the nearest field instead rather than leaving it until the morning.

On the way through, at whichever port of entry suits the routing. Marsh Harbour or Treasure Cay are the two in this part of the Abacos, and we confirm which one with the booking.

The filing goes in from our side before you leave Florida, so the stop is minutes on the ground rather than a leg of its own, and then the aircraft lifts again for the last few miles to the island.

Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.

About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to cross and no queue to join at the Florida end, because the departure points we use 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.

No, and that is worth planning for. Scotland Cay is a residential community with no restaurant, no bar, no shop and no public marina, so everything used there arrives by air or by boat.

On a charter that is straightforward rather than a problem: the aircraft is yours, so provisions travel with your party inside the payload for the day, and catering can come aboard before you leave Florida. Tell us at the enquiry and it is part of the quote.

Yes, up to the day before in most cases. A name added or dropped means we refile the manifest and ask the field to update the names it is expecting, and the flight is otherwise unchanged. Tell us as early as you can, because the paperwork and the permission are what need the notice, not the aircraft.

Often yes. Once you are cleared in, every leg after it is domestic, and the fields across the Abacos take the same type.

Marsh Harbour, Treasure Cay, Man-O-War Cay, Great Guana Cay and Hope Town are all minutes from the cay by air, so a day that starts on Scotland Cay and finishes somewhere else in the chain is one flight plan rather than two bookings. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one 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.

It depends on the size of the party and what the day is worth to you. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per person falls as the group grows, and a party of six or eight is where the comparison usually turns.

On this route there is a second thing a fare comparison cannot show: no scheduled service reaches the cay at all, so the alternative is not a cheaper flight but a flight to another island and a boat from there. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.

Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and whose house or boat you are visiting on the cay. 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 waiting or provisions to bring, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.

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.