The Crossing
Small Plane Flights Miami to Treasure Cay
Treasure Cay sits on Great Abaco in the northern Bahamas and it has a full-size runway, which is the whole reason this flight is simple. Treasure Cay Airport carries the identifiers TCB and MYAT and an asphalt strip of 7,001 feet. That is several times what a small charter aircraft needs, so it lands there on wheels the same as it would at home.
The water in between runs about 162 nautical miles and almost none of it has anything on it. You cross the Gulf Stream in the first minutes out of Florida, then the bank opens underneath in bands of turquoise and the Abaco chain comes up on the nose at the far end.
What that runs in block time depends on the aircraft and the departure point and it comes back with the quote.
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 the longest of the Bahamian crossings we fly out of Miami on wheels and one of several Small Plane routes from the city. Where an island in the chain has no strip at all, the same trip is flown by seaplane instead, which is a different aircraft and a different page.
Plan Your Treasure Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Small Plane Charter Miami to Treasure Cay Actually Works
Abaco 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 clear out of Florida, you land at Treasure Cay, you clear in at the desk beside the apron and you are on Abaco.
Plan Your Treasure Cay CharterThe Runway
Seven thousand feet of asphalt is why this works on wheels
The strip runs 14/32 and measures 7,001 feet by 151, which is airline runway rather than island strip and a great deal more than a small small plane asks for.
It sits in North Abaco, a few minutes inland from the coast on Great Abaco. There is nothing to circle and no approach over terrain, so the landing is an ordinary one in almost any weather the water would not allow.
The Border
Customs and immigration sit inside the Treasure Cay terminal
The Bahamian customs authority lists Treasure Cay among its ports of entry and the desks are in the building beside the apron. On islands without one an aircraft has to touch down somewhere else first, clear and fly the last leg afterwards. Here it does not. The crew files the manifest before departure and the travel documents are checked in Florida rather than at the counter.
Leaving Miami
Leaving Miami for Abaco 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.
The Last Mile
The beach is a short ride from the Treasure Cay apron
Treasure Cay Beach lies about seven miles from the airport, which is a taxi of a few minutes rather than a boat. The ferry dock for Green Turtle Cay is beside the field, and Marsh Harbour is roughly thirty miles and half an hour south by road. A cart or a car can be waiting when you land through ground transport.
Weather
Weather closes water long before it closes the Treasure Cay runway
A rough morning on this length of crossing can make a water landing a bad idea while a paved strip is entirely unbothered. That is the practical argument for wheels on the long Abaco leg in winter 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 at Treasure Cay, which is what makes the day 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. On a crossing this long that is the difference between lunch on the beach and an overnight. Guests who want a night in Abaco tell us at the enquiry and the crew and the aircraft are planned around it.
Departure Points
Departure Points for Small Plane Flights to Treasure 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 Treasure Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Treasure 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. 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 Treasure Cay Small Plane Puts You Down
The aircraft puts you on the runway at Treasure Cay Airport in North Abaco, a few minutes inland from the coast and beside the dock the Green Turtle ferry leaves from. Everything below is reached from there, most of it by road rather than by boat.
What follows is what parties actually do with the hours in between, in the order they ask for it.
Plan Your Treasure Cay CharterThe Treasure Cay Runway and the Border Desk
Where You LandThe strip runs 14/32 and measures 7,001 feet by 151 of asphalt, which is more runway than anything we would put on this route needs. From the air it looks like a proper airport because it is one, and from the seat it is an ordinary landing.
The terminal is a single building. Customs and immigration are inside it, which is the fact that shapes this whole route: the Bahamian customs authority lists Treasure Cay among its ports of entry, so you clear where you land rather than somewhere along the way.
Expect the formalities to take minutes rather than an hour. The crew has filed everything before departure and the desk keeps daytime hours, which is the one reason an early slot is worth more than a late one on a crossing this long. Say at the enquiry if anyone is travelling on a passport other than a United States one.
The Green Turtle Ferry Dock Beside the Apron
Ten Minutes
The dock the Green Turtle Cay ferry runs from sits next to the airport, which is the piece of geography that makes this field worth more than its runway. A few minutes from the apron to the water, then a boat of about the same again.
New Plymouth on the far side is a loyalist settlement of clapboard houses and narrow lanes, and the cay is small enough to see on foot and by cart. The ferry runs through the day and it is informal about it.
This is the connection people book the flight for as often as they book it for the beach. Say at the enquiry if the day is built around the crossing and the ground side is timed to the boat rather than to the aircraft.
Treasure Cay Beach, Seven Miles From the Strip
The Beach
Three and a half miles of white sand in a long shallow curve, and it is what the name means to most people. It has been on best-beach lists for decades and the length of it is the point: there is room to be a long way from anybody else.
From the aircraft it is about seven miles by road, so the bags, the cooler and the clubs go straight from the apron to the sand without a boat in between. That is the difference a runway makes to a beach day rather than to the flight.
The water off it is shallow and sheltered, so it works with small children and why the snorkelling starts a few yards out. What there is to do once you are there is the island's own subject and the Treasure Cay destination page covers it properly.
The Road South to Marsh Harbour and the Cays
Thirty Miles
Great Abaco is a mainland rather than a cay, so the airport opens a road as well as a shoreline. Marsh Harbour is about thirty miles and half an hour south, and from its ferry docks the southern cays are twenty minutes of water away.
That puts Hope Town and its candy-striped lighthouse on Elbow Cay, the boatbuilding lanes of Man-O-War Cay and the beach bars of Great Guana Cay inside a day from Treasure Cay, by car and then by boat.
If the southern cays are where you are actually staying, the better arrival is Marsh Harbour itself and we file for that instead. A small plane to Marsh Harbour is the same aircraft on the same crossing, thirty miles further down the island.
The Blue Hole Inland From the Airport
254 Feet
A few minutes from the field the ground opens into a blue hole that is said to run about 254 feet deep, a mix of fresh and salt water with ropes hung from the trees around the rim.
It is not a dive site in the usual sense and it does not need to be: people swim in it, jump into it and stand at the edge looking down at water that changes colour with the light. Because it is inland it is one of the things a wheeled arrival reaches easily and a water arrival does not.
The Golf Course and the Marina
On the Doorstep
Treasure Cay carries a golf course and a marina within a few minutes of each other and of the beach, which is unusual for a settlement this size and is the reason it draws the same families back. The marina is the jumping-off point for the deep water offshore, where the billfish are, and the flats on the sound side are bonefish ground.
A flats day or a fishing day by air is arranged with the flight rather than after you land. Clubs and rods travel on the aircraft as weight rather than as awkward shapes, which is the practical version of the same point the runway keeps making.
Golf Clubs, Rods and Dive Gear on Wheels
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, particularly over a leg this long.
Golf clubs, dive tanks, rods, a cooler for the boat, a case of something for the house: all of it travels, 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 Through Abaco, Already Cleared
Same Aircraft
Treasure Cay works as the first leg rather than the whole day and clearing in here is what makes that easy: once you are through the desk, every leg after it is domestic. The same airframe carries on down the chain and across to Harbour Island, Nassau, Grand Bahama or further south to Staniel Cay and the Exumas.
That is what turns one island into island hopping or a wider Bahamas day. Where the next cay has no strip of its own, that leg switches aircraft rather than cancelling the plan. The packaged version of a single day is the Treasure 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 Treasure 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 Treasure 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 Treasure Cay: The Runway, the Border and the Abaco Chain
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: the strip in North Abaco, the border desk that sits beside it, the long water crossing and what charter and private actually change about a flight to the Bahamas.
Miami to Treasure Cay by Small Plane: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Treasure 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 over the water. The Gulf Stream goes past in the first minutes as a band of navy with light in it, and then the bank comes up underneath in turquoise you can see the bottom through, mile after mile of it. Abaco announces itself long before you land. The chain runs about a hundred and twenty miles along the northern edge of the Bahamas, and from the cabin the cays lie in a line with the reef dark on the ocean side and the shallow sound pale on the other. Green Turtle Cay and the smaller cays north of it pass under the wing on the way in. 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 Treasure Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a small plane to Treasure 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 Treasure 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. Everything else is filed before departure; the travel documents page lists what we need and by when. 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 Treasure Cay from Miami: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Treasure Cay crossing
A small plane from Miami to Treasure 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 Treasure Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Treasure Cay
A private small plane from Miami to Treasure 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 Treasure Cay charter is for. The dock for the Green Turtle Cay ferry sits beside the field, which is the piece of geography that makes this airport worth more than its runway. Most people who cross here are marking something, and the date comes first. 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 Treasure Cay: Questions Answered
Can a plane land at Treasure Cay?
Yes. Treasure Cay Airport has an asphalt runway of 7,001 feet, identifiers TCB and MYAT, which is several times what a small charter aircraft needs. It sits in North Abaco and is also the border post, so a private flight lands and clears in the same place. The beach is about seven miles away and the ferry dock for Green Turtle Cay is next to the field.
Is Treasure Cay Airport a port of entry?
It is. The Bahamian customs authority lists Treasure Cay among its ports of entry and customs and immigration are in the terminal beside the apron. That is the whole reason this route runs without a stop on the way: on an island without a border post an aircraft has to clear somewhere else first and fly the last leg afterwards. Here you land where the desk is.
How far is Treasure Cay from Miami?
About 162 nautical miles, or 186 statute miles, from downtown Miami to the airport. That makes it one of the longer Bahamian crossings we fly out of Miami and almost all of it is open water. The block time depends on the aircraft and which field you leave from and it is confirmed with the boarding time before you book, never estimated on the page.
Where does the small plane land at Treasure Cay?
On the runway at Treasure Cay Airport in North Abaco, a few minutes inland from the coast. The terminal is one building and the customs and immigration desks are inside it, so the formalities happen where you park rather than somewhere along the route. From the apron it is a short taxi to the beach, to the ferry dock or to the road south.
How far is the airport from Treasure Cay Beach?
Roughly seven miles, which is a taxi of a few minutes. The beach itself runs about three and a half miles of white sand and it is the reason most people come.
Because it is a road rather than a boat, luggage, clubs and a cooler go straight from the aircraft to the sand. A cart or a car can be waiting when you land if you say so at the enquiry.
Is Marsh Harbour or Treasure Cay the better airport to fly into?
It depends where you are going. Treasure Cay is the closer field for the beach and for the Green Turtle ferry, and it is a port of entry in its own right.
Marsh Harbour is about thirty miles and half an hour south by road and it is the better arrival for Elbow Cay, Hope Town and the southern cays. Tell us where you are actually staying and we file for the right one.
Can you take a day trip to Treasure Cay from Miami?
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 longer crossing than the closer islands, so an early departure buys more of the day there. Tell us at the enquiry if you would rather stay a night.
How much baggage can we take on a small plane to Treasure Cay?
It is a weight question rather than a bag count. A small aircraft trades payload against passengers and fuel, and on a leg this length the fuel matters more than it does on a short hop. Four guests with dive tanks and four with overnight bags are different aircraft. Say what is coming at the enquiry, including clubs, rods and anything with a battery in it.
Can we get to Green Turtle Cay from the airport?
Easily. The ferry dock sits beside Treasure Cay Airport, so the crossing to Green Turtle Cay and New Plymouth is a short ride from the apron and then a boat of about the same again.
It runs through the day. That adjacency is one of the arguments for this field over the alternatives and it is worth mentioning at the enquiry so the ground side is timed to the flight.
Is Treasure Cay good for families?
It suits families well. The beach is long, shallow and sheltered, the settlement is small enough to get around by cart, and on a private aircraft there is no terminal and no queue, which is usually the part that makes the difference with small children. Children need passports like everybody else and their details go in with the rest at the enquiry.
Can we fly on to another Abaco cay afterwards?
Yes. Once you have cleared into the Bahamas at Treasure Cay every leg after it is domestic, which is what makes this field a natural first stop rather than only a destination.
The same airframe carries on to Marsh Harbour, Elbow Cay or Man-O-War Cay, and where a cay has no strip that leg switches aircraft rather than cancelling the plan. Tell us the shape of the trip and it is quoted as one movement.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day of the Treasure Cay flight?
A paved runway tolerates a great deal that a water landing does not, which is the main practical argument for this aircraft on a long winter crossing. 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 to Treasure Cay?
No and it is not trying to be. A scheduled seat is cheaper because somebody else chose the time and the aircraft is shared, and on this route it usually also means a connection. Charter buys the block: your departure, your return, your party only, your load. On a day trip that is several more usable hours in Abaco, which is the comparison worth making rather than fare against fare.
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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