PBI → NAS
About 173 nautical miles, roughly 59m – 1h 11m in a turboprop jet. Here is the honest version of that trip.
Distance
173 nm
Great-circle direct
Estimated flight time
59m – 1h 11m
Turboprops, including taxi
Recommended
Turboprops
6–8 passengers
Nonstop
Yes
With a full cabin
Estimates are computed from great-circle distance, published cruise speeds, and modeled allowances for routing, climb, descent and prevailing winds — the same engine the configurator uses. They are ranges rather than single numbers because weather and air traffic control do not deal in single numbers. Party size assumed: six.
Aircraft
Each of these covers the routing nonstop with the cabin filled — checked against realistic full-cabin range, not a manufacturer headline.
59m – 1h 11m
Under an hour in the air, this is the option we would steer you to. A jet spends a leg this short climbing and descending rather than cruising — the turboprop is built for the profile, and it will take you into fields a jet has to decline.
47m – 59m
More cabin, more baggage and a faster cruise. Worth the additional hours if the flight is long or the party is traveling heavy.
Departing Palm Beach
Palm Beach carries the heaviest private aviation traffic in South Florida for a good part of the year, and PBI takes anything up to and including ultra-long-range aircraft. It is the practical departure point for transatlantic flying out of the region.
PBI in season is genuinely congested, and slot and FBO availability around major events can be the binding constraint rather than aircraft availability. More notice is worth more here than almost anywhere else we fly.
Arriving Nassau
Nassau is under an hour from South Florida and is the busiest private aviation gateway in the Bahamas. The flying is trivially short; the paperwork is the part that needs handling properly.
International arrival requires customs and immigration processing and, for Bahamas arrivals, an inbound declaration filed ahead of time. It is routine and it is not automatic — we handle it, and a broker who does not mention it is one to ask harder questions of.
Flying Palm Beach to Nassau more than a few times a year? The Velocity Jet Card fixes the terms in advance — or see how a card compares with charter, fractional and ownership, including where a card is the wrong answer.
The Jet Configurator
The configurator checks routed distance against realistic full-cabin range, so it will never recommend an aircraft that cannot actually make the trip with everyone aboard.
Your trip
We will come back personally with real availability and a real number — not an auto-generated quote. Every inquiry is answered personally — 24/7, and we come back to you right away.
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Approximately 59m – 1h 11m in a turboprop jet, over about 173 nautical miles direct. That is an estimated range including taxi time — winds and routing move it either way, and westbound legs typically run longer than eastbound.
For six passengers, a turboprop jet — Beechcraft King Air 350i or a Cessna Grand Caravan EX — covers this route nonstop and uses the fewest hours doing it. A light gives you more cabin and a faster cruise at around 47m – 59m.
We typically use Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) for Palm Beach and Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS) for Nassau. Alternatives are available at both ends and are sometimes the better answer depending on where you are actually going.
We do not publish charter prices, because a price without live operator availability behind it is a guess rather than a quote. Tell us the date and party size and you will have a real number, usually the same day.
No published price, because a price without live availability behind it is a guess. Tell us the date and the party and we will come back with a real number — every inquiry is answered personally — 24/7, and we come back to you right away.
Every inquiry is answered personally — 24/7, and we come back to you right away.
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