The Crossing
Small Plane Flights Miami to Moore's Island
Moore's Island sits on its own in the Bight of Abaco, twenty-eight miles west of the Abaco mainland, and it has a strip. Mores Island Airport carries the identifier MYAO and 2,640 feet of gravel running east to west.
That is short by the standards of most aircraft and ordinary for this one, which is the whole reason a wheeled charter reaches an island of nine hundred people at all.
The water in between is about a hundred and forty-six nautical miles wide and there is almost nothing on it. You leave the Florida coast within a minute or two, cross the deep blue of the Gulf Stream, and somewhere past the middle the bottom comes back up and the whole surface turns green and pale.
What that runs in block time depends on the aircraft and the departure point and it comes back with the quote.
The one thing this route has that a short hop to a customs field does not is a stop. Moore's Island is not a port of entry, so the aircraft clears into the Bahamas at a field that is one and carries on afterwards.
That stop is ours to plan and it costs you a short wait on an apron. Everything else is ours too: 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. The same island is also flown by seaplane, which puts you on the water instead of the strip and is a different aircraft and a different page.
Plan Your Moore's Island Charter
How It Works
How a Small Plane Charter Miami to Moore's Island Actually Works
Moore's Island is a different country, so a day there is two border crossings in one afternoon. On this route neither of them happens at the island itself, because the island has no desk. That sounds like a complication and it is a twenty-minute stop. Nothing about the paperwork is yours except the passports.
The short version: you clear out of Florida, you touch down once at a Bahamian port of entry, and the last leg into Moore's Island is a domestic flight.
Plan Your Moore's Island CharterThe Runway
The gravel strip at Moore's Island is short, and that is the point
The strip runs 09/27 and measures 2,640 feet by 100, unpaved. A great many aircraft cannot use a number like that and this one is built for it, which is the reason a charter can land on Moore's Island instead of stopping at the mainland and sending you the rest of the way by boat.
The Border
Customs is not on Moore's Island, so you clear once on the way in
The Bahamian aviation authority does not list Mores Island Airport as a port of entry, which is the single fact that shapes this route. The aircraft puts down at a field that is one, the crew handles the desk and you carry on.
Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are both on that list and both sit on the line. Which place the clearance happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote.
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 clears United States customs at a designated field and the crew plans the routing around that not around the shortest line.
Fuel
There is no pump on Moore's Island, so the return leg is planned before you go
The field is listed with no fuel available, which on a small island is normal and on a flight plan is simply a number. The aircraft carries what the round trip needs, or the crew builds the uplift into the same stop as the border. It is a planning question at our end and it never becomes yours.
Weather
A gravel strip stays open in weather that closes the water
A rough morning can make a water landing a bad idea while a strip is entirely unbothered by chop. That is the practical argument for wheels on this crossing and it is the reason we quote both. What the aircraft needs on the day is a crew decision, taken against published minimums, never a preference.
The Block
The small plane waits, which is what makes a Moore's Island 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. There is no scheduled way back off this island on your own hour, which matters more here than on a busy route. Guests who want a night tell us at the enquiry and the crew and the aircraft are planned around it.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Small Plane Flights to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island Small Plane Puts You Down
The aircraft puts you on the gravel strip that runs across the middle of the island, a few minutes from either settlement and from the water on both sides. Everything below is reached from there, and on an island this size the first step of most days is a short ride rather than a boat.
What follows is what parties actually do with the hours in between, in the order they ask for it.
Plan Your Moore's Island CharterThe Airstrip at Moore's Island
Where You LandThe strip runs 09/27 across the island and measures 2,640 feet by 100, unpaved. From the air it is a pale line in low green scrub with water at both ends, and from the seat it is an ordinary landing, because this airframe uses a fraction of it.
What there is not is an airport in the sense most people picture. No terminal hall, no ramp full of aircraft, no desk selling anything, and no fuel. The field is public and it is government owned, and on most days yours is the only aircraft on it.
Because there is no customs desk here either, the formalities are already behind you by the time you arrive: the crew clears the aircraft into the Bahamas at a port of entry on the way and the leg into Moore's Island is domestic.
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.
Hard Bargain and The Bight
The Two Settlements
About nine hundred people live on Moore's Island, in two villages. Hard Bargain is the main one and The Bight is the other, and between them is most of what the island has: the school, the clinic, the church, a handful of roads.
Both are a short ride from the strip, which is the practical advantage of landing in the middle of an island seven miles long. Nothing here is far from anything else, and that is what makes a day on Moore's Island work at all.
Where You Clear on the Way In
One Stop First
Mores Island Airport is not on the Bahamian list of ports of entry, so an arriving private aircraft clears somewhere that is and flies the last leg afterwards. It is the one genuine extra step this route has. Sandy Point on the Abaco mainland and Marsh Harbour further up are both on that list and both sit on the line from Miami.
Which place the clearance happens at depends on the aircraft, the route and the date and it comes with the quote. The stop is the crew's job rather than yours. You stay with the aircraft, the paperwork goes to the desk and the aircraft carries on. It is also the natural place to take fuel, since there is none at the far end.
A Cart or a Truck at the Strip
Getting Around
There is no rank at Mores Island Airport and no counter to hire from, so getting off the apron is something arranged before you fly rather than found when you land. That is a small piece of planning and it is ours.
A cart or a truck can be waiting when the aircraft shuts down, through ground transport, and on an island with two villages and a few miles of road it is all the transport a day needs.
Rods, Coolers and Provisions on a Small Plane
What Wheels Carry
This is the part of the day a strip 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. Rods, a cooler for the boat, dive gear, a case of something for the house: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day.
On this route the fuel the aircraft has to carry for the return is part of that same sum, so say what is coming at the enquiry rather than at the ramp and see the baggage guidance for how the trade actually works.
Anything larger than luggage is a different service on the same gravel and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags. Moore's Island lives off fishing and crawfishing, so freight in and out of here is an ordinary movement rather than an unusual one.
The Cays Around Moore's Island
Ten or Twelve of Them
Moore's Island is the inhabited one of a small archipelago at the edge of the Northwest Providence Channel. Around ten or twelve cays sit near it and none of the others has anybody on them.
You see the whole group from the air on the way in, which is one of the reasons the approach is worth a window seat. On the ground they are a boat ride rather than a walk, and what a day among them looks like belongs to the island page rather than to the flight.
A Working Island, Not a Resort One
Crawfish and Boats
The island lives off fishing and crawfishing, with kitchen gardens behind the houses. There is no resort strip, no marina village and no row of bars, and for the people who come here that is the entire point. It also sets expectations for a day trip honestly.
Bring what you want to eat and drink or tell us at the enquiry and it comes on the aircraft. Guests who want a table booked before they land are usually better served by a fly and dine day somewhere with restaurants, and anything outside the usual list goes to custom requests.
Onward Across the Abacos by Small Plane
Same Aircraft
Moore's Island works as one leg of a longer trip rather than only as a destination, and the border stop on the way in is what makes that easy: once you are through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. The same airframe carries on to Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros 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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island?
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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: The Gravel Strip, the Border Stop and the Settlements
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: the strip at the far end, the one stop that gets you into the country, the water crossing and what charter and private actually change about a flight to the Bahamas.
Miami to Moore's Island by Small Plane: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Moore's Island 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 part of it is the best. The Bight of Abaco is a shallow inland sea rather than open ocean, and the approach runs across ten or twelve small cays scattered at the edge of the Northwest Providence Channel. Deep water on one side of the wing and a few feet of it on the other, for minutes at a time. The aircraft puts down at a Bahamian field that is on the list, the crew takes the paperwork to the desk, and the leg from there to the strip is domestic. 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 Moore's Island from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a small plane to Moore's Island
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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island from Miami: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Moore's Island crossing
A small plane from Miami to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Moore's Island
A private small plane from Miami to Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island 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 Moore's Island: Questions Answered
Can a plane land on Moore's Island?
Yes. Mores Island Airport has a gravel runway of 2,640 feet by 100, identifier MYAO, which suits a single engine charter aircraft and rules out most larger types.
It is a public field with no terminal to speak of and no fuel, so the aircraft is planned to carry what the round trip needs. It is not a port of entry, so an inbound flight clears somewhere else on the way.
Do I need a passport to fly to Moore's 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 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 Moore's Island?
The great circle distance is about 146 nautical miles, so this is a long way out rather than a hop across the Stream. The block time depends on the aircraft and which field you leave from and it is confirmed with the boarding time before you book.
What really sets the length of the day is not the flight, it is the customs stop on the way in and how long the aircraft waits for you afterwards.
Where exactly does the flight land on Moore's Island?
On the strip at Mores Island Airport, which runs east to west across the island. There is no terminal and no queue, so you step off the aircraft onto gravel and the day starts. Ground transport on the island is arranged with the flight rather than found on arrival, because nothing on an island of nine hundred people is waiting on a rank.
Why does the flight have to stop somewhere first?
Because Moore's Island is not a Bahamian port of entry. An arriving private aircraft has to clear customs and immigration at a field that is one, and only then fly the last leg. Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour are both on the list and both sit on the line. Which one is used depends on the aircraft, the route and the date, and the crew handles all of it.
Can you take a day trip to Moore's Island?
Yes, and 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.
It is a long crossing with a customs stop in it, so an early departure buys more of the island. Tell us at the enquiry if you would rather stay a night.
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, and on a route with a fuel-free field at the far end that trade is a little tighter than usual. 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 actually on Moore's Island?
Two settlements and about nine hundred people. Hard Bargain is the main one and The Bight is the other, and the island lives off fishing and crawfishing with kitchen gardens behind the houses. It is roughly seven miles long by three and a half wide. This is a working island rather than a resort one, which is either the whole appeal or the wrong island for the day.
Can we fly on to another island afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas on the way in, every leg after that is domestic, so the same airframe carries on across the Abacos or south down the chain without a second border.
That makes Moore's Island a workable 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.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day?
A strip tolerates a great deal that a water landing does not, which is the main practical argument for this aircraft here. 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 a small plane or a seaplane better for Moore's Island?
They answer different questions. Wheels give you a dependable strip, more usable load and an onward leg on the same airframe, at the cost of one stop for the border. A seaplane puts you on the water by the shore with no strip involved, which is the nicer arrival when the water allows it. We quote both against each other rather than selling one.
Is it cheaper than flying to the mainland and taking a boat?
It is not trying to be. Coming in through the Abaco mainland means an airport, a road, a dock and about twenty miles of open water, and every one of those is a handover. Flying to the strip removes all of them. What it buys is hours on the island rather than hours getting to it, which is the comparison worth making.
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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