The Route
Miami to Bimini by Private Jet
Bimini lies about 55 nautical miles east of Miami across the Gulf Stream, the closest island of the Bahamas, and a private jet covers it in about 30 minutes. Every private jet from Miami to Bimini leaves from a Miami airport with a private terminal and lands at South Bimini Airport (BIM), where customs and immigration are on site.
You tell us the day and how many of you are flying, and we come back with the jets that are free, each with one total for the whole aircraft. Velvet Air books the Miami to Bimini private jet, a licensed carrier flies it, and the names and passport numbers for both borders are filed from our side.
Four jet classes are offered from Miami to Bimini, from a light jet for six to a heavy jet for twelve where the runway allows it. The choice right below shows the difference at a glance, and hourly rates for each class are on our Miami private jet charter page. For a seaplane, a helicopter or a small plane, our flights from Miami to Bimini cover every aircraft.
Plan Your Private Jet
Choose Your Aircraft
Aircraft for Your Miami
to Bimini Private Jet
Four jet classes, so your private jet from Miami to Bimini fits your group, your luggage and your pace. Your own crew on every booking, and nobody else on board.
Light Jet
Citation CJ3/CJ3+
- Up to 6 passengers
- 3h range
Technical Details
- Manufacturer
- Cessna (Textron Aviation)
- Aircraft Model
- Citation CJ3/CJ3+
- Passengers
- Up to 6
- Range
- 3 hours
- Max. Takeoff Weight
- Up to 13,870 lbs
- Engines
- 2 × Williams FJ44-3A Turbofan Engines
- Max. Cruise Speed
- Up to 416 kts
- Service Ceiling
- 45,000 ft
Technical specifications are based on manufacturer data for the listed aircraft variants. Actual performance and passenger capacity may vary depending on aircraft configuration, payload and operating conditions.
Midsize Jet
Citation Excel/XLS
- Up to 8 passengers
- 4h range
Technical Details
- Manufacturer
- Cessna (Textron Aviation)
- Aircraft Model
- Citation Excel/XLS
- Passengers
- Up to 8
- Range
- 4 hours
- Max. Takeoff Weight
- Up to 20,200 lbs
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545 Series Turbofan Engines
- Max. Cruise Speed
- Up to 441 kts
- Service Ceiling
- 45,000 ft
Technical specifications are based on manufacturer data for the listed aircraft variants. Actual performance and passenger capacity may vary depending on aircraft configuration, payload and operating conditions.
Super Midsize Jet
Citation Sovereign
- Up to 8 passengers
- 7.5h range
Technical Details
- Manufacturer
- Cessna (Textron Aviation)
- Aircraft Model
- Citation Sovereign
- Passengers
- Up to 8
- Range
- 7.5 hours
- Max. Takeoff Weight
- Up to 30,775 lbs
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 Series Turbofan Engines
- Max. Cruise Speed
- Up to 460 kts
- Service Ceiling
- 47,000 ft
Technical specifications are based on manufacturer data for the listed aircraft variants. Actual performance and passenger capacity may vary depending on aircraft configuration, payload and operating conditions.
Heavy Jet
Bombardier Challenger 650
- Up to 12 passengers
- 9h range
Technical Details
- Manufacturer
- Bombardier
- Aircraft Model
- Challenger 650
- Passengers
- Up to 12
- Range
- 9 hours
- Max. Takeoff Weight
- 48,200 lbs
- Engines
- 2 × General Electric CF34-3B Turbofan Engines
- Max. Speed
- Mach 0.85
- Service Ceiling
- 41,000 ft
Technical specifications are based on manufacturer data for the listed aircraft variants. Actual performance and passenger capacity may vary depending on aircraft configuration, payload and operating conditions.
How Much Does a Private Jet from Miami to Bimini Cost?
| Class | Models | Guests | One way |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Jet | Citation CJ3/CJ3+ | Up to 6 | From $5,000 |
| Midsize Jet | Citation Excel/XLS | Up to 8 | From $8,500 |
| Heavy Jet | Challenger 650 | Up to 12 | From $12,000 |
Estimated one-way price for the whole aircraft, before taxes and fees. Hourly rates are on our fleet page. Actual pricing depends on aircraft configuration, passenger and baggage load, weather, routing, operator availability, positioning and airport fees.
Beyond the Cabin
A Better Way to Charter a Private Jet from Miami to Bimini
At Velvet Air, the care goes beyond the flight itself, from priority access in the busy season, to secure payment with one year of credit if the weather intervenes, to making sure your pets travel from Miami to Bimini in a private jet as comfortably as you do.
Priority Access
Priority access in the busy season and to Bimini through our trusted network of licensed operators, helping you secure the right private jet for the dates you want.
Pay Securely, Fly Protected
We offer secure credit card payment for your private jet to Bimini, and if weather cancels your flight, we move it to the new date you prefer, with one year of credit, ensuring every booking feels protected from the start.
Pets in the Cabin
We offer pet-friendly private jets from Miami to Bimini, ensuring your pet flies right beside you in the cabin, relaxed from takeoff to landing.
How It Works
How a Private Jet to Bimini from Miami Works
Flying from Miami to Bimini by private jet works the same way in every jet class. Here is what every Miami to Bimini private jet includes, from the first message to the landing on South Bimini.
Plan Your Private JetDistance and Time
About 55 Nautical Miles, About 30 Minutes
Bimini is about 55 nautical miles east of Miami across the Gulf Stream, the closest island of the Bahamas to the mainland. By jet that is about 30 minutes in the air, depending on the class and the wind, and the quote gives the planned time for your jet and your date.
Runway
One Runway, at South Bimini
Every private jet from Miami to Bimini lands at South Bimini Airport (BIM), the only runway on the island. It is about 5,400 feet long, so the jet class for your group is checked against the field and the load before we send the quote.
The Whole Aircraft
Your Group, Your Jet, Your Hour
Nobody else is on board, only the guests you name, and there is no seat map to work around. You choose when your Miami to Bimini private jet leaves, within the hours the crew may fly. Six fit in the light jet, eight in the midsize and super midsize jets, twelve in the heavy jet.
Both Borders
Customs on Arrival in Bimini, Filings Before You Leave
Every passenger needs a valid passport, children included. South Bimini Airport is a designated airport of entry with customs and immigration on site, so the group clears the border where it lands. We file the names and passport numbers for both borders before you leave Miami.
Bags and Gear
Golf Clubs, Dive Gear and Coolers
Bimini is a fishing and diving island, and golf clubs, dive gear and coolers all fit in the jet, with room for rods as well. The hold is planned by weight, so list what is coming when you write and the quote names a jet that carries it.
On Board and On Arrival
Catering, Celebrations and a Ride to Alice Town
Food and drinks for the cabin, flowers or a gift for an occasion, a golf cart or a car at South Bimini and a yacht waiting for you off North Bimini can be ordered with the jet. They appear on the same quote, so nothing is left to arrange on the day.
Why Velvet Air
Why Velvet Air for a Private Jet from Miami to Bimini?
At Velvet Air, private aviation is planned around your journey. As an independent Miami air charter specialist, we are not tied to one fleet: we work directly with carefully selected, licensed operators and pick the jet that fits your date, your group and the island you are flying to. You keep one point of contact and one total price from the first message until you land.
Plan Your Private JetDeparture Points
Miami Departure Points for Your Private Jet to Bimini
Your private jet to Bimini leaves from one of three Miami airports. We pick the one closest to where you are staying and name it in the quote.
Select a departure point to see the location
A general aviation airport in the north of the city. Its runway is about 8,000 feet long, US Customs is on the field, and three full-service private terminals operate there: Atlantic Aviation, Fontainebleau Aviation and Signature Flight Support. Every private jet from Miami to Bimini can leave from here, in any class, and guests staying in the north are closest.
Miami Executive is the general aviation airport in Kendall, southwest of central Miami. If you are staying in the south or southwest, the jet to Bimini can leave from here and you skip the drive across town to an airfield in the north.
Miami’s main airport. Guests who arrive by airline and want to fly on to Bimini the same day start here, and we plan the departure time of the jet around the hour you land.
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Contact Us
Send the date, the number of guests and roughly what luggage is coming on WhatsApp or by email, and say whether you come back the same evening or stay on Bimini. A preferred hour of departure helps.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We look at which jets are free that day and send you the class that suits your Miami to Bimini trip, the airport in Miami, the planned time in the air and one total for the whole aircraft, with what it covers.
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Confirm and Pay Securely
Confirm and pay securely by credit card, and the jet and crew are reserved for you. Add catering, flowers, a golf cart or a yacht off North Bimini at the same time, and send us the names and passport numbers for both borders.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
Come to the private terminal about thirty minutes before the time in the quote. There is no airline line to stand in: the bags go straight to the jet, the outbound filing is done, and you take off once everyone is on board.
In Bimini
What to See When Your Private Jet from Miami Lands in Bimini
Below are six places to see after a private jet from Miami to Bimini, from Alice Town on North Bimini to the stingrays at Gun Cay.
Plan Your Private JetSelect a spot to see where it is
Alice Town on North Bimini holds the hotels, the marinas and most of the bars and restaurants, a short water taxi ride across the channel from South Bimini Airport. Ernest Hemingway came here to fish, and the docks still fill with sportfishing boats. For a night or a long weekend after a private jet from Miami, it is the base most guests choose.
A boat from the docks in North Bimini reaches Honeymoon Harbour on the northern tip of Gun Cay, a beach you can only get to by water. Southern stingrays glide through the shallows there and come close to anyone wading in, and the water stays shallow enough to stand. With a yacht waiting for you, it fits into the afternoon after the jet lands.
Off South Bimini, not far from where the jet lands, the concrete steamship Sapona has sat in shallow water since a hurricane ran it aground in 1926. Snorkelers swim around and through the hull in around fifteen feet of clear water. The wreck is reached by boat from North Bimini, which makes it an easy first stop on a day trip.
Off the northwest coast of North Bimini, a line of rectangular limestone blocks runs for about 800 metres across the seabed in roughly 18 feet of water. Divers found it in 1968; geologists read it as natural beachrock, others as a trace of Atlantis. A boat and a snorkel are enough to see it for yourself.
On the west side of North Bimini, Radio Beach is the public beach where Alice Town gathers in the evening, with white sand, clear water and beach bars along the shore. It faces the sunset, so a day that started on a private jet from Miami in the morning can end here with the sun going down over the water.
South Bimini Airport (BIM) is where every private jet from Miami to Bimini lands, and the airport of entry for the island. Customs and immigration are on site, and the runway is about 5,400 feet long. From the terminal, a short taxi ride reaches the ferry dock, and a water taxi crosses to Alice Town in a few minutes.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Charter a Private Jet from Miami to Bimini?
Tell us the date and how many are flying. We send back the jet for your Miami to Bimini trip, the Miami airport and one total.
Add-Ons
Private Jet Miami to Bimini Add-Ons
Tell us which ones you want when you send your dates and your preferred jet. Anything beyond these is arranged together with the flight.
In Detail
Private Jet Charter Miami to Bimini: Runways, Customs and Alice Town
Velvet Air arranges every private jet charter from Miami to Bimini with licensed carriers. Every flight is flown for your group alone and arranged by one person from your first message until you land. Every island we fly to, by every aircraft, is on our Bahamas flights from Miami page.
Miami to Bimini Private Jet: You Decide the Departure Time
Leave Miami on your hour and be on the beach before lunch
Bimini is so close that the crossing is the shortest part of the day, which is exactly why the hour you leave should be yours. On a Miami to Bimini private jet you set the departure time when you confirm, within the hours the crew may fly, and it can still move if a lunch in Brickell runs long. Wheels up from Opa-locka at ten, and the jet is down at South Bimini well before eleven; a few minutes on the water taxi later you are walking through Alice Town. Guests landing at Miami International on an airline can step onto the jet the same afternoon. Bimini keeps the same clock as Miami, so the hours you plan at home are the hours you get on the island. Tell us when you want to leave and when you want to be back, and the quote shows both legs with the planned time in the air.
Private Jet to Bimini from Miami: Celebrations and Long Weekends
A birthday, an anniversary or a few days of fishing
Bimini suits the trips that deserve more than an ordinary weekend: a birthday dinner in Alice Town, an anniversary at Resorts World Bimini, a few days of fishing with friends off the western shore. For a private jet from Miami to Bimini we arrange what makes the trip: flowers, champagne or a gift at your seat, catering for the cabin, a ride from South Bimini across the channel and, for the morning after, a yacht waiting for you for Honeymoon Harbour or the Sapona wreck. Larger groups fit the heavy jet with twelve seats where the runway allows it, golf clubs, rods and dive gear travel in the hold, and pets fly in the cabin with you. Tell us the occasion and the dates when you write, and the quote shows the jet and every add-on together, so nothing is left to organise once you land.
FAQ
Miami to Bimini Private Jet FAQ
How long does a private jet take from Miami to Bimini?
About 30 minutes in the air for the roughly 55 nautical miles across the Gulf Stream, depending on the jet class and the wind. The quote gives the planned time for your jet and your date.
How much does it cost to charter a private jet to Bimini?
From Miami, one way for the whole aircraft, a light jet starts from $5,000, a midsize jet from $8,500 and a heavy jet from $12,000. The final price depends on the aircraft, the date, positioning and availability.
Which airport do private jets use in Bimini?
South Bimini Airport (BIM), the airport of entry for Bimini, with customs and immigration on site. Its runway is about 5,400 feet long, so the jet class for your group is checked against the field. Runway and facilities are confirmed for each trip.
How far in advance should I book a private jet to Bimini?
Book a few weeks ahead for winter weekends, Christmas, New Year and the fishing tournaments, when jets go quickly. At other times a few days are often enough: send your date and we check which jets are free for your Miami to Bimini trip.
Do I need a passport to fly from Miami to the Bahamas?
Yes. Every passenger needs a valid passport with at least six months of validity, children included, and a driving licence will not do. Names and passport numbers are filed from our side before you leave Florida.
What is the customs and immigration process on arrival in Bimini?
Every passenger must meet Bahamian immigration and customs requirements, with valid travel documents and declarations. The jet lands at a designated airport of entry, South Bimini Airport, where customs and immigration are on site. We confirm the procedure before your jet leaves Miami.
How many people fit on a private jet to Bimini?
Six on the light jet, eight on the midsize Citation Excel/XLS or the super midsize Citation Sovereign, and twelve on the heavy Challenger 650 where the runway allows it. Tell us the group and the luggage, and the quote names the class that fits.
Can we bring golf clubs and dive gear?
Yes. Golf clubs, dive gear and coolers all fit in the jet, and fishing rods travel too. Tell us what is coming when you write, and the quote names a jet with a hold that takes it.
How do I get from the airport to my resort in Bimini?
The jet lands on South Bimini, and North Bimini with Alice Town and the resorts lies across a narrow channel: a short taxi ride to the ferry dock, then a few minutes by water taxi. A golf cart, a chauffeur or a yacht can be waiting.
Can we do Bimini as a day trip by private jet?
Yes. With about 30 minutes each way, the jet can leave Miami in the morning and bring you back in the evening, and it waits for you on South Bimini. Tell us if you would rather stay a night or a long weekend.
What happens if the weather is bad on the day?
If conditions are below what is safe, the crew moves or cancels the flight, and you hear early enough to change the departure. Nothing is lost: we move it to a new date agreed with you, and every booking carries one year of credit.
What is the difference between Velvet Air and the operator that flies me?
Velvet Air does not own or fly aircraft; the flight is operated by a licensed carrier. We compare carriers for your route and put forward the best fit, and one person stays with your request until you land.
Next Step
Ready to Book Your Private Jet from Miami to Bimini?
Send your date and group size. We come back with the jet, the Miami airport and one total, and the border filings for Bimini are handled from our side.
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