The Crossing
Small Plane Flights Miami to Kamalame Cay
Kamalame Cay is a ninety-six acre private island off the northeast coast of Andros, and it has no runway of its own. The runway is on Andros itself. Andros Town International carries the identifiers ASD and MYAF and an asphalt strip of 4,058 feet. A small plane lands there on wheels.
From the apron it is about twenty minutes by road to the dock at Staniard Creek, then a boat across the channel. That is the whole journey: an hour or so in the air, a short drive and a short crossing. Block time depends on the aircraft and comes back with the quote.
The water between Miami and Andros is about 137 nautical miles wide and almost none of it has anything on it. You leave the Florida coast behind within a minute or two, cross the Gulf Stream and the colour changes under the wing long before the island appears.
Everything between those two moments 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. This is one of several Small Plane routes from the city, and where you would rather come down on the beach itself the same trip is flown by seaplane instead.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Small Plane Charter Miami to Kamalame Cay Actually Works
Kamalame Cay is a different country, so a day there is two border crossings in one afternoon. On this route both of them happen at an airport, so it stays simple. Nothing about the paperwork is yours except the passports.
The short version: you leave Florida, you land on Andros, the crew handles the formalities beside the apron and you drive twenty minutes to the boat.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay CharterThe Runway
The runway on Andros is the reason this works on wheels
The strip at Andros Town runs 09/27 and measures 4,058 feet of asphalt, far more than a small plane needs. It sits on the east coast of Andros. No approach over terrain and nothing to circle, so a landing here is an ordinary one.
The Border
Formalities are handled on arrival and you are not part of them
Andros Town or San Andros, whichever suits the day, and the crew decides which one. Both sit on the island and both handle arriving private aircraft, so there is no detour and no extra leg. The manifest is filed before departure, the travel documents are checked in Florida rather than at a counter, and the whole thing is quick. Your party carries passports and nothing else.
Leaving Miami
Leaving Miami is the quieter of the two borders
Outbound from Florida the filing is done for you and the aircraft departs from a general aviation ramp rather than a terminal. You arrive at the departure point close to the boarding time, not two hours before it.
Coming home is the step people forget: a return from the islands is met at a designated field in Florida and the crew plans the routing around that not around the shortest line.
The Last Mile
Getting to Kamalame Cay is a short drive and a boat
The cay lies off the east coast and the airport is inland on the same island. The link is about twenty minutes by road to the dock and then a boat across the channel, arranged before you land rather than found on arrival.
It is a genuine extra step compared with putting floats down on the beach and it buys you a runway that works when the water does not.
Weather
Weather closes water before it closes the Andros runway
A rough morning can make a water landing a bad idea while a paved strip is entirely unbothered. That is the argument for wheels in winter, and the reason we quote both. What the aircraft needs on the day is a crew decision, taken against published minimums.
The Block
The small plane waits, which is what makes a Kamalame Cay day trip a day trip
On a charter the airframe is yours for the block, so the return is set by you rather than by a timetable. Guests who want a night on the cay say so at the enquiry and the day is planned around it.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Small Plane Flights to Kamalame Cay 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 Kamalame Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay 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, so the last stretch is a car and a boat. With a seaplane we put you on the beach instead.
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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 Kamalame Cay Small Plane Puts You Down
The aircraft puts you on the runway at Andros Town, about twenty minutes by road from the dock opposite the cay. Everything below is reached from there, and most days start with a short ride and a shorter boat.
What follows is what parties actually do with the hours in between, in the order they ask for it.
Plan Your Kamalame Cay CharterThe Andros Runway and the Arrival Desk
Where You LandThe strip runs east to west, 4,058 feet of asphalt at Fresh Creek on the east coast. From the air it looks improbably short and from the seat it is an ordinary landing, because a small plane needs a fraction of it.
The terminal is one building. Customs and immigration are inside it, at Fresh Creek or San Andros, and the crew picks whichever suits the day, so there is no detour and no second take-off on the way over.
Expect the formalities to take minutes rather than an hour. The crew has filed everything before departure, which is the one reason an early slot is worth more than a late one. Say at the enquiry if anyone is travelling on a passport other than a United States one, because that is the case worth flagging before the day rather than at the counter.
The Road North to Staniard Creek
The Two Settlements
Fresh Creek is the settlement beside the airport and Staniard Creek is the one opposite the cay, about twenty minutes north of it by road. Between them is pine forest, one road and very little traffic. That is not a drawback for a day trip, it is the reason the arrival is calm.
There is no crowd at the strip, no queue for the boat and nobody selling anything on the way past. The car that meets the aircraft is arranged with the flight rather than found on arrival, through ground transport, and the driver knows which dock to go to before you land.
The Channel Crossing to Kamalame Cay
The Last Ten Minutes
The cay is separated from Andros by a channel a few hundred yards wide, and the link is a boat from the dock at Staniard Creek. It is the shortest and the best part of the journey by road.
It is also the one genuine extra step this aircraft has that a water landing does not, and it is the step that buys you a paved runway, which is the better trade on a winter morning or with a load on board.
Guests who would rather not do it at all fly the same route by seaplane to Kamalame Cay instead, which comes down on the water off the beach. We quote both, because which is right depends on the date, the water and the load.
Kamalame Cay Itself
Ninety-Six Acres
Across the channel the cay is ninety-six acres of sand, palms and casuarina with a beach running most of its length and the water shelving away from it in the pale green that Andros is known for. Nothing on it is far from anything else, so a day here works.
Walking is the transport and a cart is the alternative, and the loudest thing on the island is usually the wind in the pines. What there is to do once you are across is the island's own subject, and the Kamalame Cay destination page covers it. A table booked before you land is a fly and dine day, and the rest goes to custom requests.
The Andros Barrier Reef, Minutes Offshore
Snorkel Depth
The barrier reef off the east side of Andros runs 190 miles and is the third largest in the world. It lies a short run out from the cay, which puts it closer to this beach than to almost anywhere else you could stay.
Inside it the water is shallow and clear enough to snorkel straight off a boat, and the coral heads start in a few feet rather than a few fathoms. Directly behind it the sea floor falls into the Tongue of the Ocean, roughly six thousand feet of it, so the wall diving here has the reputation it does.
The line where one becomes the other is plainly visible from the air on the way in, and it is the last thing you see before the aircraft turns for the strip.
The Blue Holes of Andros
Inland and Offshore
Andros holds more blue holes than anywhere on earth, over 180 of them, split between the ocean holes out on the flats and the inland ones in the forest behind the settlements. From a small plane the inland ones read as dark coins in the green and it is the sort of thing nobody expects to see on the way to a beach.
Some of them run deeper than anyone has surveyed and the water in them changes colour with the tide, which is the part that surprises people who have only ever seen a photograph. On the ground they are a boat, a guide and half a day, arranged from the cay rather than from Nassau.
Rods, Tanks and a Cooler on a Small Plane
What Wheels Carry
This is the part of the day a runway changes most. Load on a small aircraft is a weight question rather than a bag count and a wheeled airframe has more of it to give than floats do.
Andros is the bonefishing capital of the world and rods are the most common thing on this route, but dive tanks, a cooler for the boat and a case of something for the house all travel too, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
Say what is coming at the enquiry rather than at the ramp and see the baggage guidance for how the trade between passengers and weight actually works.
Anything larger than luggage is a different service on the same runway and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Onward Down the Chain by Small Plane
Same Aircraft
Andros works as the first leg rather than the whole day, and arriving here is what makes that easy: once you are through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. The same airframe carries on north and east to Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island or Staniel Cay and the Exumas.
That is what turns one island into island hopping or a wider Bahamas day. Where the next island has no strip of its own, that leg switches aircraft rather than cancelling the plan. The packaged version of a single day is the Kamalame Cay getaway day trip and the rest of the chain is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Small Plane Charter from Miami to Kamalame Cay?
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 Kamalame Cay 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 Kamalame Cay: The Runway, the Road and the Boat
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: the strip on Andros, the twenty minutes of road, the boat across the channel and what charter and private actually change about a flight to the Bahamas.
Miami to Kamalame Cay by Small Plane: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Kamalame Cay 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 last few minutes are the ones people talk about. The Andros barrier reef runs 190 miles down the east side of the island and is the third largest in the world, and directly behind it the sea floor falls away into the Tongue of the Ocean, roughly six thousand feet of it. From a few thousand feet you see both at once: pale flats, a dark line of coral, then a blue that has no bottom in it at all. Block time depends on the aircraft and comes back with the quote. 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 Kamalame Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a small plane to Kamalame Cay
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 Kamalame Cay 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. 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.
Small Plane Charter to Kamalame Cay from Miami: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Kamalame Cay crossing
A small plane from Miami to Kamalame Cay 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.
Small Plane Miami Kamalame Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Kamalame Cay
A private small plane from Miami to Kamalame Cay 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 small plane Miami Kamalame Cay charter is for. Three of the four sit well inside the county, which is the part that decides how early the morning starts: a field twenty minutes from the house is worth more than five minutes of flight time saved in the air. 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
Small Plane Charter Miami to Kamalame Cay: Questions Answered
Can a plane land on Kamalame Cay?
Not a land plane. The cay is ninety-six acres of private island and there is no runway on it. The nearest asphalt is on Andros itself, at Andros Town, which runs 4,058 feet, and the last stretch is about twenty minutes by road and then a boat across the channel.
A seaplane is the only aircraft that finishes the journey at the cay, and it comes down on the water off the beach.
Do I need a passport to fly to Kamalame Cay?
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 Kamalame Cay?
The water is about 137 nautical miles wide, which is roughly an hour in the air in a small plane. The block time depends on the aircraft and which field you leave from and it is confirmed with the boarding time before you book. Add about twenty minutes by road on Andros and a short boat across the channel and you have the whole door to dock journey.
What is the best way to get to Kamalame Cay?
By air, and then it depends on how you want the last half hour to go. A small plane lands on the runway on Andros, which is dependable in weather the water is not, and a car and a boat finish the trip.
A seaplane comes down off the beach and ends the journey there. The boat from Nassau costs most of a day. We quote the first two against each other.
Where does the flight land?
On Andros, at Andros Town or San Andros, and the crew picks whichever suits the day. Andros Town sits at Fresh Creek on the east coast and has 4,058 feet of asphalt. Formalities are handled there beside the apron rather than somewhere on the way, and from the airport a car takes you to the dock at Staniard Creek for the crossing to the cay.
Can you take a day trip to Kamalame Cay?
Yes, and it is a common way to fly this route. 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 the drive and the boat arranged both ways. 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, clubs and anything with a battery in it, and the answer comes back with the quote rather than at the ramp.
Is Kamalame Cay good for families?
It suits families who want somewhere quiet. The island is small, the water on the bank side is shallow and warm and there is no traffic to speak of. Children need passports like everybody else. On a private aircraft there is no terminal and no queue, which is usually the part that makes the difference with small children, and the boat at the end tends to be the highlight.
Can we fly on to another island afterwards?
Yes. The same airframe carries on down the chain, and because you have already arrived in the Bahamas on Andros the onward legs are domestic. That makes Andros a natural first 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 rather than as separate flights.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day?
A paved runway 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 to the cay at all, so the comparison is with a connection through Nassau and a long boat afterwards. Charter buys the block: your departure, your return, your party only, your load. On this route that usually means arriving in the early afternoon rather than at dusk, which is the comparison worth making.
What do we do once we are there?
That is the island's own question rather than the flight's, and the Kamalame Cay destination page covers it properly. In short: the beach and the channel in front of it, the barrier reef a short run offshore, the bonefish flats that gave Andros its reputation and the blue holes inland. 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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