The Crossing
Small Plane Flights Miami to Blackpoint
Blackpoint, written Black Point on the charts, is the biggest settlement in the Exuma Cays, and it has a paved airstrip of its own. The strip runs about 2,600 feet on Great Guana Cay, a short way from the houses on the ridge. A small charter plane lands there on wheels, so the last part of the journey is a cart or a walk rather than a boat.
The water between is about 230 nautical miles, most of it open sea. You leave the coast within a minute or two, cross the deep blue of the Gulf Stream and then come down onto the middle of a chain of more than three hundred and sixty cays with the bank going turquoise underneath. Block time comes back with the quote.
Everything between is ours: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas wants. Your party brings passports and a bag. This is one of several Small Plane routes from the city and one of the longer ones we fly on wheels. The same settlement is also reached by seaplane, which puts down on the water off the town dock instead of on the strip. A different aircraft and a different page. The same crossing is also flown as Private Plane Charter Miami to Blackpoint, and every option sits side by side in Flights from Miami to Blackpoint. The same crossing can also be booked by helicopter.
Plan Your Blackpoint Charter
Miami to Blackpoint Small Plane
How a Small Plane Charter Miami to Blackpoint Actually Works
Small plane flights from Miami to Blackpoint involve more than the flight across the Gulf Stream. Here is what every flight includes, from your first message to the moment you step out at Blackpoint.
Plan Your Blackpoint CharterDistance and Runway
Two Hundred Thirty Nautical Miles from Miami to Blackpoint
The water between Miami and Blackpoint is about 230 nautical miles, open sea first and then the shallow bank, and the strip at the other end is paved and about 2,600 feet long. The block time follows the departure point and the aircraft. The table sits on all small plane routes from Miami.
The Whole Aircraft
One Party, One Aircraft, Bound for Blackpoint
The cabin goes to one party rather than being sold by the seat, so the hour you leave and the hour you come back are yours to set and nobody else is on the list. A larger group flies a second small plane out of Miami on the same block.
Where the Aircraft Lands
Wheels Down Beside the Settlement at Blackpoint
The runway lies a short way from the houses and is served by light aircraft out of Nassau, so an arrival on wheels is routine here. The settlement sits on the ridge above the bank, and ground transport can be waiting at the strip.
Both Borders
Manifest, Passports, and Both Borders Filed Before Blackpoint
The field at the other end is on the Bahamian customs list of ports of entry, so a routing can clear on arrival or at a larger field on the way, Nassau for example. Which one comes back with the quote. What counts for each passenger is in the travel documents guidance.
On Board and Ashore
Catering, Celebrations, and What Travels to Blackpoint
The settlement has a few small kitchens and a bakery, so catering and a private chef can come out of Miami with you. Bags travel within the baggage guidance. A birthday or a proposal down the chain is arranged as a custom experience.
How Long the Day Runs
Day Trip to Multi-Day Blackpoint Itinerary
The airframe is held for your block rather than a departure slot, so the return is set by you, not by the Nassau timetable. Guests who want a night or a week in the Exumas say so at the enquiry. Weather and delays moves it, nothing else.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Small Plane Flights to Blackpoint from Miami
A small plane uses short fields that a jet cannot, so the departure point is chosen for your ground time. These are the four we use 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 and the field both small planes sit at, the land aircraft and the amphibian. A charter that starts here starts without a positioning leg, which is what decides an early morning on a same day return. It is also the shortest drive from the south and west of the county.
Opa-locka Executive
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, OPF
The executive airport north west of the city, with private terminal handling and the point most Bahamas day trips are dispatched from. It is also where a return from the islands clears US customs. That makes it the default on a Bahamas day unless the drive is against you.
Miami International
Miami International Airport, MIA
A pickup rather than a base, for a party already at MIA that wants the onward leg to leave from the same airport. Arranged per flight and confirmed with the operator before it is quoted. It costs ground time, because a commercial field moves on its own schedule.
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Fort Lauderdale Executive, FXE
Fort Lauderdale Executive, the Broward departure, with its own federal inspection station for the return from the islands. The usual choice when the group is north of Miami and the drive south would cost more time than the flight saves. The return clears there as readily as it does at Opa-locka.
How to Charter
Charter a Small Plane from Miami to Blackpoint
Chartering an aircraft takes four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Blackpoint 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. A small plane runs airport to airport. Your pickup can also be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach. With a seaplane we can collect you there.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send the small planes that fit. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. Every aircraft costs a little differently, so we can find the best fit for you.
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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 hotel or back to the airport.
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 Early
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 Miami to Blackpoint Small Plane Puts You Down
The plane is where a Blackpoint day really begins. A flight over the Gulf Stream, and then the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays on its ridge above the bank, a long anchorage full of cruising boats in front of it and the pigs of Big Major Cay just up the chain. Below is what a day out there can look like.
Plan Your Blackpoint CharterThe Paved Strip at Blackpoint
Where You LandThe strip runs about 2,600 feet on Great Guana Cay, paved and open to the public, a short way from the houses of the settlement. Light aircraft work it out of Nassau, so a small plane on the apron is an ordinary sight. What it changes is the end of the journey rather than the flight. On many cays in this part of the chain the aeroplane stops somewhere else and a boat finishes the job. Here the wheels come down on the island you booked, and the transfer is a short ride into town. A cart can be waiting at the strip through ground transport for anybody who would rather not carry a bag in the heat.
A Customs Desk at the Blackpoint Strip
Port of Entry
Black Point Airport and the public dock in the settlement are both on the Bahamian customs list of ports of entry. For a flight from Florida that means the routing can clear into the country on arrival here, or on the way at a larger field such as Nassau or George Town. Which of those your day uses depends on the aircraft, the routing and the date, and it comes back with the quote rather than being promised here. Either way the crew files both borders and the guests carry passports and nothing else, per the travel documents guidance.
The Blackpoint Settlement on the Ridge
Largest in the Cays
Black Point is the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays and the second largest in the whole Exuma district. The houses sit along a ridge on Great Guana Cay looking straight out over the bank. It is a working town rather than a resort: a school, churches, a few small shops, and people who live there all year. That is what a day here feels like, a visit to a place rather than a stay at a property. What there is to do once you are down is the island's own subject rather than the flight's and the Black Point destination page covers it properly.
Lorraine's Cafe and the Coconut Bread in Blackpoint
Lunch in Town
Lorraine's Cafe is the table most visitors know by name, Bahamian food and the coconut bread that the settlement is known for along the whole chain. On a day trip it is the obvious first stop after the strip. Guests who want a table held before they land add a fly and dine day, and anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests. The settlement is small, so it pays to tell us the hour you plan to eat.
The Blackpoint Anchorage and the Laundry Dock
Where Boats Come In
In front of the settlement lies one of the largest sheltered anchorages in the Exumas, and cruising boats sit in it for days or weeks at a time. The laundry on the shore has its own dinghy dock, which tells you who the regulars are. From the aircraft it is the first thing you recognise on the way in: a long bay of pale water with masts scattered across it. A beach picnic on one of the empty beaches nearby is arranged with the flight rather than found on arrival.
Staniel Cay and the Swimming Pigs
About Five Miles North
Staniel Cay lies about five miles up the chain and is the busier end of this stretch. Beside it is Big Major Cay with the swimming pigs, and close by is Thunderball Grotto, so a boat from Blackpoint reaches all three in a morning. The Staniel Cay page covers what sits around it, and there is a small plane from Miami to Staniel Cay of its own. On this route the aeroplane stops at Blackpoint and the boat north is optional.
Little Farmer's Cay to the South
About Nine Miles
Little Farmer's Cay lies about nine miles south, a settlement of a few dozen people with a strip and a harbour of its own. It is a short hop on the same aircraft or a boat ride across the bank. The small plane from Miami to Farmer's Cay has its own page. From Blackpoint the two make an easy pair for a long weekend, one landing in, one landing out.
Onward Down the Exumas by Small Plane
Same Aircraft
Blackpoint works as one stop on a longer trip rather than the whole of it, and once the aircraft has cleared into the country every leg after it is domestic. Rods, coolers and a week of provisions travel within the payload, see the baggage guidance, and freight moves under island logistics. George Town and the rest of Exuma lie south, and the same airframe carries on to Nassau or back up to Grand Bahama. That is what turns one settlement into a week of island hopping. The packaged version of a single day is the Blackpoint getaway day trip.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Small Plane Charter from Miami to Blackpoint?
Send the departure point, the number of guests and from when to when. You get back what is free on your dates, the boarding time and what the day costs, before anything is booked.
Add-Ons
Small Plane Flights to Blackpoint Add-Ons
Tell us which of these you want when you send your dates and they go on the same quote as the flight.
In Detail
Small Plane Miami to Blackpoint: The Paved Strip, the Customs Desk and the Settlement
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: the paved strip on Great Guana Cay, the border that has a desk right here, the run down the bank and what charter and private actually change about a flight to the Bahamas.
Miami to Blackpoint by Small Plane: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Blackpoint small plane
The crossing is not dead time between two airports. A small plane crosses low enough to see what is under it, so the water is part of the day rather than something to sit through. A small aircraft flies low and slow: the Gulf Stream goes from navy to light, then the bank comes up turquoise. The Exuma chain runs about a hundred and thirty miles and counts more than three hundred and sixty cays. Blackpoint sits near the middle of it, so the approach is flown along a line of islands with the shallow bank on one side and the dark water of Exuma Sound on the other. Staniel Cay and the anchorage off Big Major Cay pass under the wing about five miles before the strip, and the last minutes are flown over water a few feet deep. Every seat is a window seat on an aircraft this size, and the same is true of scenic flights of this size, so nobody watches the crossing over someone's shoulder. Other small plane routes from Miami fly the same way.
Small Plane to Blackpoint from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a small plane to Blackpoint
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 at Blackpoint and which field 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. If the drive is shorter the other way, the same day runs out of Fort Lauderdale. 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. 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. The return is set the same way, by you: home the same evening, or after a week of island hopping down the Exuma chain.
Small Plane Charter to Blackpoint from Miami: The Crew Handles Both Borders
Passports are all your party carries on a Blackpoint crossing
A small plane from Miami to Blackpoint 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. Black Point Airport is on the customs list of ports of entry, and the crew files every step of it. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. Where the routing clears in and where you land coming home come back to you with the quote, settled before anyone boards. 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. On the way home the same crew files the US side, so the return is as quiet as the outbound leg and your party never stands in a line at either end.
Small Plane Miami Blackpoint: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Blackpoint
A private small plane from Miami to Blackpoint is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend away with the people who matter. The occasion, not the travelling, is what the day is about. That is what a small plane Miami Blackpoint charter is for. A long weekend can take in more than one island on the same aircraft, with the return set for the day that suits you. 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, and nothing has to be found on the island. Tell us the date first and the rest follows.
Questions
Small Plane Charter Miami to Blackpoint: Questions Answered
Can a plane land at Blackpoint?
Yes. Black Point Airport, identifier MYEB, is a public strip on Great Guana Cay with a paved runway of about 2,600 feet, and light aircraft serve it from Nassau.
A small charter plane lands there on wheels, a short way from the settlement. The strip and the public dock are both listed as ports of entry, so the airport can also be where the flight clears into the country.
Do I need a passport to fly to Blackpoint?
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 the manifest for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when, including the cases that need more notice.
How long is the flight from Miami to Blackpoint?
Blackpoint lies about 230 nautical miles from Miami, which is roughly 265 statute miles, open water first and then the Exuma bank. The block time depends on the aircraft and which field you leave from and it is confirmed with the boarding time before you book. Where the routing clears into the Bahamas is the part that shapes the day more than the distance.
Is Blackpoint the same place as Black Point in the Exumas?
Yes. Black Point is the settlement on Great Guana Cay in the Exuma Cays, and Blackpoint is the same place written as one word. It is not the Great Guana Cay in the Abacos, which is a different island several hundred miles north. Black Point is the largest settlement in the Exuma Cays and the second largest in the Exumas after George Town.
Where does the flight land at Blackpoint?
On the paved strip on Great Guana Cay, a short way from the settlement. The houses, the bakery and the town dock are close enough that the transfer is a cart ride or a walk, which is the whole point of flying wheels here: there is no boat leg at the end. A cart can be waiting when you land if you would rather not carry a bag.
Can you take a day trip to Blackpoint?
Yes, and it is a common way this route is flown. On a charter the aircraft is held for your block, so the return is set by you rather than by a timetable.
Out in the morning, back in the evening, with both borders handled either side. Tell us at the enquiry if you would rather stay a night and the aircraft is planned around that instead.
How much baggage can we take on a small plane?
It is a weight question rather than a bag count. A small aircraft trades payload against passengers and fuel, so four guests with dive tanks and four with overnight bags are different aircraft. Say what is coming at the enquiry, including rods, coolers and anything with a battery in it and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the ramp.
What is Blackpoint known for?
For being a working settlement rather than a resort. Black Point sits on a ridge above the Exuma bank, with a large sheltered anchorage in front of it that cruising boats use for weeks at a time. Lorraine's Cafe and its coconut bread are the best known table in town, and the laundry with its own dinghy dock is a landmark among sailors.
Can we fly on to another island from Blackpoint afterwards?
Yes. Once the aircraft has cleared into the Bahamas every leg after it is domestic, so Staniel Cay, Little Farmer's Cay, George Town and the rest of the chain are short hops on the same airframe.
That makes Blackpoint a natural stop on a longer trip rather than only a destination. Tell us the shape of the trip at the enquiry and it is quoted as one movement.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day of the Blackpoint flight?
A paved strip on land tolerates a great deal that a water landing does not, which is the main practical argument for this aircraft in winter.
If conditions are genuinely below minimums the crew moves or stands down the flight and the weather and delays policy says what that means for your booking. That call is the crew's, made against published limits, never a preference.
Is it cheaper than a scheduled flight?
No and it is not trying to be. There is no scheduled service from Florida to Blackpoint, so the honest comparison is a flight to Nassau, a connection on a small scheduled aircraft and a day lost to the change.
Charter buys the block: your departure, your return, your party only, your load, and an arrival beside the settlement rather than a connection away from it.
What is the best way to get to Blackpoint?
By air, and then it depends on the water. A small plane lands on the paved strip, which is dependable on days the bank is rough. A seaplane puts you on the water off the settlement with nothing to cross at all.
From a neighbouring island it is a boat: Staniel Cay is about five miles north and Little Farmer's Cay about nine miles south. We quote the first two against each other.
What do we do once we are there?
That is the island's own question rather than the flight's and the Black Point destination page covers it properly. In short: lunch and coconut bread in the settlement, the long sheltered anchorage in front of it, and Staniel Cay with the swimming pigs off Big Major Cay a short boat ride north. Anything you want arranged before you land is set up with the flight.
Can I bring a pet on a small 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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