The Charter
Private Plane Miami to South Andros Bahamas
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 which field it puts you down on at the far end.
Wide bights cut Andros into three, so the southern part is a separate island in everything but the name it shares. That is why the ordinary way there is a hop out of Nassau or a road that stops at the water. A chartered aircraft ignores both and goes to the field at Congo Town in one leg, 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 from there without going back to a hub first.
Plan Your South Andros Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros 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 Route
South Andros is reached in one leg rather than in two flights
The usual way onto this island is Nassau first and something smaller afterwards, with the afternoon spent waiting for it. A chartered aircraft has nowhere else to be, so it flies the two hundred miles southeast and lands. What that saves is not really time in the air, it is the hours on either side of a connection, and on a day trip those hours are the trip.
The Clock
The hour of departure 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 why a same day return to Andros works at all: you are back before the afternoon builds rather than waiting on the next available departure. 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 the border desk sits on the field itself, so there is no terminal to cross, no queue to join, and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
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 on 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: lunch can run long, the boat can come back late, and the aircraft is still there.
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. What is waiting on the ground moves with it, including any ground transport you asked for.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to South Andros Bahamas
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 South Andros Bahamas
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your South Andros 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 this route a field at the far end means we can usually work to it.
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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 lodge or back to 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 South Andros Bahamas from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at the southern end of Andros, a short walk from the border desk, and from that moment the day is unscheduled. There is no return departure to work back from and no connection to keep, 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 South Andros CharterLanding at the South End Instead of Nassau
Straight ThereThe ordinary way onto this island is a flight into Nassau and a second one afterwards, with the middle of the day spent between them. A chartered aircraft is not part of anyone else's network, so it crosses and lands, and your party clears in where it is going rather than at a stop on the way.
That is the whole argument for a charter here, and it is worth more on this island than on the near ones. Two hundred miles is not a long flight. A connection in the middle of it is a long day.
Driggs Hill and the Road Down the Island
One Road
Almost everything on South Andros sits on a single road running south from Driggs Hill through Congo Town, Deep Creek and The Bluff to Kemps Bay. Nothing on it is far from the field, so a car or a cart waiting at the aircraft turns a landing into an afternoon rather than into a search for a lift.
Because the flight is yours, the ground transport is arranged to the hour you actually land rather than to a published arrival time that may or may not hold.
An Afternoon at Kemps Bay
Halfway Down
Kemps Bay still builds boats. The yard where the local sloops are made is there, and so is the house covered in conch shells that everybody photographs, and both are close enough to the road to be an hour rather than an expedition.
It is the sort of stop a schedule squeezes out. On a charter it is simply a later departure, and a later departure is a message to us.
Where the Road Runs Out at Mars Bay
The Last Settlement
Mars Bay is the southernmost settlement on Andros and the road ends there. Past it the island runs out into creeks and flats and nothing much else, which is exactly why people ask to go.
Getting down there and back is a question of hours, not of distance, and hours are the thing a chartered aircraft gives you. Nothing is waiting for you at the other end of the day except the crew.
Mangrove Cay Across the Bight
A Domestic Leg
North of South Andros the island is cut by a wide bight, and Mangrove Cay sits on the other side of it with no road across. It has its own strip and it is not one of the three airports of entry on Andros, which for a charter is not a problem: once your party is cleared in at the southern field, a hop over the bight is a domestic leg.
That is the kind of move only a private aircraft makes casually. Doing it on a schedule means going back out to a hub first, and the hub is in the wrong direction.
Blue Holes You Can Reach in an Afternoon
Inland
Andros carries more blue holes than anywhere else on earth, well over a hundred and seventy inland and dozens more offshore, and several of the inland ones sit close enough to the road south to be an afternoon. Offshore the reef drops into the Tongue of the Ocean, thousands of feet down within sight of the shallows.
Whether that becomes a dive, a swim or a photograph out of the window on the way in is your call, and it is the sort of call that only exists when the aircraft is not going anywhere without you. It is also a natural pairing with a flats fishing day on the eastern shore.
What Your Party Brings Aboard
Weighed, Not Counted
Rods, coolers, dive gear, a case of something for the house: on a charter the payload is shared with nobody, so what comes aboard is a conversation about weight rather than a count of bags.
Tell us what is coming when you send the dates and it is planned in. The baggage guidance covers the usual cases, and anything unusual is a question rather than a refusal. Larger loads that do not belong in a cabin go as island freight instead.
Going On Up the Chain the Same Day
Your Itinerary
South Andros is often the start of a week rather than the whole of it. Once you are cleared in, every leg after it is domestic, so the aircraft can carry on north up Andros or across the bank without sending you back to a hub to start again.
That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and back is a South Andros day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros Bahamas: One Leg South, No Hub, No Change of Aircraft
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 southern field instead of round by Nassau, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to South Andros Bahamas: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
A window each on a Miami to South Andros Bahamas 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. Miami to Congo Town is about 198 statute miles, roughly 172 nautical, and almost every one of them is open water. The Bahamian customs authority lists three airports of entry on Andros, and the southern one is among them, so the aircraft clears in where it is going rather than at a stop on the way. 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. A chartered aircraft ignores both and goes to the field at Congo Town in one leg, which is the whole point of having it to yourself. 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 South Andros Bahamas from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to South Andros Bahamas
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 South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros Bahamas: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a South Andros Bahamas crossing
A private plane from Miami to South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros Bahamas: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or a celebration on South Andros Bahamas
A private private plane from Miami to South Andros Bahamas 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 South Andros Bahamas is for. A proposal on an island where the nearest other party is a long way off. 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 South Andros Bahamas: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to South Andros 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.
Do we have to go through Nassau to reach South Andros?
No, and that is the main reason parties charter for this island. The southern field has its own border desk, so a chartered aircraft flies there directly and clears in on arrival.
Routing through a larger airport and waiting for a second flight is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually asks of you, and it is the step a charter removes. On a day trip it is also the difference between a day on the island and a day spent getting to it.
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.
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.
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.
Which field on Andros do we land at?
Whichever one suits the day, and on this route that is usually the southern one, because it is closest to where parties stay and it is an airport of entry in its own right.
Andros has fields further north as well, and Mangrove Cay has one between the bights with no road across to either neighbour. Tell us where you are going on the ground and the landing site is picked to match rather than the other way round.
Do I need a passport for South Andros?
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 and your party is cleared in, an onward leg is domestic, so it can carry on up the chain or across the bank rather than return to a hub first. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back as one day rather than as 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 connection you are not making and the hour you get back at each end of the day. 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 car waiting 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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