The Charter
Private Plane Miami to South Bimini
Chartering is a different transaction from buying a ticket. The aircraft is held for the names you send, and everything else on this page follows from that one fact. Who sits in the cabin, what hour the door closes and which field it opens at again are decisions your party makes rather than listings it picks from.
South Bimini sits about fifty nautical miles off downtown Miami and keeps its own airstrip and its own border desk on the island itself. So there is nothing in the middle of this journey. No larger airport to pass through, no second aircraft to wait for, and no boat leg at the end of it. You get out where you were going.
Everything between the two ends is ours to arrange: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, the filings for both countries and the travel documents the Bahamas wants settled before anybody leaves Florida.
What your party brings is passports and whatever is going in the back. The same island is also reached by small plane and, where a boat or a dock is the better arrival, by seaplane. It is one of several small plane routes from Miami, and the shortest of them.
Plan Your South Bimini Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane to South Bimini from Miami Actually Works
Six things work differently once an aircraft belongs to one party for a day, and none of them are about the machine itself.
Plan Your South Bimini CharterThe Airframe
You are pricing an aircraft, not counting heads
A quote for this crossing covers the aeroplane and the crew for the day. It does not move when a sixth person joins or a fourth drops out, which turns the usual arithmetic on its head: the more of you travel, the less the crossing costs each.
Groups who have flown scheduled to the islands before tend to notice this first, because they are used to a number that climbs with every extra name.
The List
Your party is the entire passenger list on the crossing to South Bimini
Nobody is seated next to you, and nobody is left behind. There is no seat map to negotiate, no reason to check in early to sit together, and no version of the morning where half the group flies and half does not.
A family, four couples sharing a house, a crew joining a boat: whoever is on the list crosses together and comes back together.
The Hour
The departure hour for South Bimini is something you name, not something you find
A schedule publishes times and you fit yourself around them. A charter works the other way. You tell us when the day should start and we build the flight around it, which is what makes a same day return to an island this close genuinely worth doing. If the morning slips, the aircraft is not going anywhere else, so it waits.
The Doors
Neither end of the Miami to South Bimini crossing has a terminal in it
In Florida you park beside the building, walk out and board. At South Bimini the border desk is a few paces from where the aircraft stops rolling, and the far side of it is the island.
There is no concourse, no gate number and no carousel at either end, which is most of the reason the whole journey measures in minutes rather than half a day.
The Way Back
The return hour can still move while you are on the island
This is the part groups underestimate. On a charter the flight home is not a booking you are working backwards from all afternoon. Lunch can run long, the boat can come in late, somebody can decide the water is worth another hour. A message moves the aircraft, because there is no next departure and no other passengers waiting on it.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a charter cannot bend
Everything above is flexible and this is not. If the day cannot be flown properly we would rather move it than fly it, and you hear from us as early as we know rather than at the airfield. Because the aircraft was held for your party and for nobody else, moving the date is a conversation instead of a place in a queue.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane Charter from Miami to South Bimini
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 Bimini
Booking an aircraft is not booking a seat on one. It runs in four steps and only the first belongs to you.
Plan Your South Bimini Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send the date, the headcount, where you are leaving from and the hour you would actually like to go rather than the hour you assume is available. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. A strip at the far end usually means we can work to it.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We look at what is free on your date and come back with the aircraft that suit your party, each with its baggage allowance and its flight time. The number is for the whole airframe, so a party of five and a party of eight see the same figure.
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Confirm and Pay
You choose the aircraft and we fix the departure point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a cart or a car waiting when the door opens, ground transport onward to a house or a dock, flowers if the day calls for them. You approve it, you pay, and the boarding time and the full list come back.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
No terminal and no queue at either end. Be there half an hour ahead, walk out to the aircraft, and the next time you stop you are on South Bimini.
On the Island
Where a Private Plane Charter to South Bimini from Miami Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at the southern end of the island, a few paces from the border desk, and from there the day has no structure imposed on it. There is no published return to work backwards from and no group of strangers to keep together, so what follows is a menu and not an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this crossing ask for, and what having your own aircraft changes about each of them.
Plan Your South Bimini CharterPort Royal at South Bimini's Southern End
Where the Houses Are
The southern tip of the island is where most parties who stay here actually sleep. Port Royal holds more than eighty holiday houses along with a beach club and a couple of places to eat, and it is a few minutes from the strip rather than a journey from it.
That proximity is the whole argument for flying in rather than across. A group renting one house between them lands, clears, and is unpacking inside the half hour. Ask for ground transport with the flight and something is at the door when it opens, which on an island of this size saves more of the afternoon than it sounds like it should.
The last morning is short in the same way. An afternoon departure means nobody spends it packing against a ferry.
The Harbour on South Bimini's West Side
For a Boat Day
A protected marina sits partway up the western shore, and it is the reason a good share of the charters we fly here exist at all. People are not coming for the island so much as for something tied up in it. An aircraft that leaves when you say lands you with the morning still intact.
A party on the ground by ten is aboard and out of the harbour before lunch, which simply does not work backwards from a published departure. If the boat is the point of the day, a transfer straight to the yacht changes the aircraft and skips the dock run altogether.
Tell us at the enquiry which marina the day is built around, and the flight is timed to the boat rather than the boat to the flight.
South Bimini, the Bigger and Quieter Half
Mostly Empty
Of the two islands this is the larger one, it sits a little higher, it is greener, and it carries the better beaches. It also carries far fewer people, because most day visitors treat it as somewhere to pass through on the way north. Arriving by charter inverts that.
You are already on the quiet island, with the option of the busy one rather than the obligation of it. What there is to do once you start moving belongs on the island guide rather than here; a day planned around one long lunch somewhere specific is a fly and dine day.
It stays quiet late, too. Once the day boats have gone back across the channel, this side of the water belongs to whoever decided to stay.
From South Bimini the Ferry Is Optional
Take It or Skip It
A channel separates the two islands and a small boat crosses it in about five minutes, running when people need it rather than to a timetable. It is a hop, not a leg of the journey. The difference a charter makes is that the hop is genuinely optional.
A group tied to a scheduled flight home spends the day watching the clock and leaves the north island early to be safe.
Yours does not: cross when you feel like it, stay as long as the afternoon earns, come back when you are done. Where the north island is the actual destination, a seaplane to Alice Town sets down there directly and skips the channel entirely.
Either way, arrange the boat with the flight rather than at the dock. One that is already waiting costs nothing extra.
Gun Cay, Nine Miles Below South Bimini
Rays in Shin-Deep Water
Honeymoon Harbour sits on the northern end of Gun Cay, about nine miles below the island, and there is no road to it. Southern rays have been coming in to the shallows there for decades and they arrive within a few feet of the sand, so almost every party here for the water ends up asking about it.
It is a boat run rather than a flight, and it eats a chunk of the middle of the day. On a charter that is a scheduling question rather than a problem: say so when you send your dates, and the only thing still to decide is what hour you want to be back at the strip. It pairs naturally with a beach picnic.
Nothing about the rays is seasonal. They are there through the year, whichever month your party travels.
One Night on South Bimini Instead of One Day
Your Call, Late
Because the aircraft is held for your party rather than sold by the seat, the choice between a day out and an overnight stops being a pricing decision and becomes a question of what the group feels like. A crossing this short makes a day trip genuinely easy, and a Bimini day trip is the packaged version of it.
But the same flight that brings you in the morning can equally come back for you tomorrow afternoon, and the decision does not have to be made when you book. Tell us which way you are leaning and we will quote both.
The same aircraft takes you out on one morning and home on another, and the hours in between answer to nobody but your own party, on either day.
A Second Island Before Dark
Same Aircraft
This island is very often the opening move rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes the rest of it simple: every leg after the first is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you can string those legs in whatever order suits the week.
Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros and Staniel Cay and the Exumas all take the same type, and none of them require a hub in between. That is the shape of an island hopping week or a wider Bahamas day by air; the full list sits on the Bahamas destinations page.
Send the whole week at the enquiry rather than leg by leg. Planned as one itinerary it costs less than the same flights booked separately.
When the South Bimini Day Is Built Around One Thing
Say So First
A proposal at the south end, a table held for eight, a boat and a crew ready at a particular hour, a cake that has to arrive without anybody seeing it. These are the days where an aircraft of your own stops being a convenience and starts being the reason the thing works.
None of it can be assembled on arrival on an island this small, and all of it is straightforward with a fortnight of notice.
Send the shape of the day at the enquiry rather than after booking: catering on board, a car or a cart at the strip and anything under add-ons comes back priced with the aircraft. Anything more particular than that is a custom request, and we would rather hear it early than well.
Say it in the first message rather than the third. On an island this size, notice is most of the answer, and the parts of a day that have to come across from Florida need the most of it. Ask rather than assume: what is possible depends on what the day needs, not on the flight.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to South Bimini from Miami?
Send the date and the number of guests. Back come the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave. Nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to South Bimini 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 Bimini: One Party, Your Hour, an Island Airstrip
Everything above describes the day. What follows is the detail underneath it: who is allowed on board, who deals with the border, how the aircraft ends up on a strip this small, how late the hour can still move, and the sort of occasion that puts a party on a flight to the Bahamas in the first place.
Private Plane Miami to South Bimini: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a South Bimini 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 water in between is about fifty nautical miles wide and almost none of it has anything on it. Half an hour of flying is not long enough to recover from an hour lost at a gate, so the value of an empty cabin shows up in the parts of the day that happen on either side of it: the drive, the boat, the table, the yacht at the dock. The Bahamian customs authority lists South Bimini Airport among its ports of entry, which is the small administrative fact that lets this crossing stay a day out rather than becoming an overnight: there is no clearing stop somewhere else and no second landing before the one you wanted. 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 Bimini from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to South Bimini
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 Bimini 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. Back come the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave. 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 Bimini: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a South Bimini crossing
A private plane from Miami to South Bimini 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 Bimini: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on South Bimini
A private private plane from Miami to South Bimini 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 Bimini is for. What happens once the door opens is yours to arrange, and the earlier we hear what the day is meant to be, the more of it we can have waiting. A weekend where eight friends renting one house on the south end travel together in both directions. 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 Bimini: Questions Answered
What is included when we charter a private plane to South Bimini?
The aircraft and its crew for the day, the filings for both borders, and any ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are buying the airframe rather than seats on it, so the figure covers the crossing whether five people travel or eight.
Catering, a cart or a car at the strip and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced alongside the aircraft.
Who decides what time the private plane leaves?
You do, inside daylight and inside what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys on a crossing this short. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards, because the aircraft has nowhere else to be and there are no other passengers to reschedule.
Most parties go out in the morning and come back in the afternoon, but an early start and a late return are ordinary requests rather than exceptions. Tell us the hour you actually want.
Will anyone else be on board the aircraft?
No. The passenger list is the one you send us and nothing is added to it. There is no seat assignment, no second party sharing the cabin and no risk of the flight leaving without someone whose connection failed.
The list can also change up to shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to change planes in Nassau or Freeport?
No. South Bimini has its own strip and its own border desk, so the aircraft flies there directly and your party clears in where it lands. Routing through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands normally requires, and skipping it is most of what you are paying for.
It holds further along the chain too: once you are cleared in, a leg on to another island is domestic and does not send you back through a hub.
Do we clear customs on South Bimini itself?
Yes. The Bahamian customs authority lists South Bimini Airport among its ports of entry, and the desk sits beside the strip. We file for both countries before you board, so what happens on arrival is a short walk and a passport rather than a process. Crown Air handles the paperwork on both sides of the crossing.
Does everyone need a passport for South Bimini, including the children?
Yes, every passenger regardless of age. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We collect the details once at the enquiry and file them for both sides before departure; the travel documents page sets out what each passenger needs to hand over and by when.
How long before departure should we arrive at the aircraft?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to walk through and no queue to join, because both ends of this route are general aviation. You park, walk to the aircraft and board. The outbound filing is already done from our side, so there is nothing to check in and nothing to print.
Can we add or drop a passenger after the charter is booked?
Yes, in most cases up to the day before. A change to the list means we refile the manifest and the flight is otherwise unchanged. Tell us as early as you can, because it is the paperwork that needs the notice and not the aeroplane.
Can we add a second island to the same day?
Often, yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on down the chain instead of returning to a hub, and the strips in the Berry Islands, the Abacos and the Exumas take the same type. Send the whole itinerary at the enquiry and it comes back priced as one day rather than as separate flights.
What happens to the charter if the weather turns on the morning?
The day moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather reschedule a flight than fly it badly.
You hear from us as early as we know and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that suits your party. Because it was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a place in a queue.
Does a private charter make sense for a party of six or eight?
That is usually where the comparison turns. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the figure per person falls as the group grows.
What a fare comparison never shows is the time returned to you at both ends of the day: no connection, no terminal, no waiting for a published departure. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers instead of an estimate.
Can the aircraft collect us from a marina or a hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs field to field, and on this crossing that means a Miami departure point to the strip at South Bimini. Where the pickup or the arrival really needs to be a dock, a marina or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can meet you on the water.
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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