Mykonos to Porto Cheli
Helicopter Charter

About 50 to 60 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, and 55 is the usual figure. The sector is 105 nautical miles west from the Mykonos airport pad across Syros, Kythnos and Hydra to the Amanzoe pad or a villa pad at Porto Cheli, the longest crossing on the Mykonos desk.

Yes. Porto Cheli to Mykonos is the same 55 minute crossing flown east, and it is the leg that opens a Cyclades week after a Peloponnese one. The helicopter lifts from the Amanzoe pad in the morning and lands on the Mykonos airport pad or a club pad before the afternoon wind. Quoted together with the outbound, or as a leg on its own.

The airport helipad if you are transferring from a jet, or a club pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios with the club's approval if the crossing starts from a Mykonos stay. Because the sector is 55 minutes each way, the desk works the lift time back from sunset at the Porto Cheli end and tells you the latest pad time.

No. The Porto Cheli airfield was closed by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority in 2004 and its certificate lapsed in 2008, so nothing fixed-wing lands on the Argolid. A jet lands at Athens, then it is about two and a half hours by the coast road or about 25 minutes by helicopter to the Amanzoe pad, and the desk quotes both shapes.

Yes, at the resort's own helipad on the hill above Porto Heli, with the resort's approval, which the desk secures against your booking. A villa pad with the owner's approval is the alternative for a private house on the coast, and the resort staff meet the aircraft at the pad.

No direct one. By sea it is a ferry from Mykonos to Piraeus and then the Flying Dolphin down the Saronic Gulf to Porto Heli, which alone takes about two hours forty to three hours twenty depending on the stops, so the whole thing is a day. The helicopter is about 55 minutes from pad to pad.

A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class for six to eight with more bags and two engines over the Myrtoan Sea is the desk's first answer on a 55 minute crossing. For four with light luggage in settled weather, a single-engine H130 or H125 class is the cheaper quote, and the desk offers it when the forecast allows.

Yes, inside daylight, though two 55 minute crossings leave a shorter day than the Cyclades hops do. The helicopter waits at the resort pad or repositions nearby while you have the bay, Spetses by boat or the Amanzoe, and lifts back to Mykonos early enough to land before sunset. The desk prices both crossings as one.

The helicopter, twin-engine as the usual quote or single-engine in settled weather; whether it is a one-way crossing or a return with the helicopter waiting; the resort pad or a villa pad fee and the club pad on Mykonos; and the dates against July and August. We tell you what the quote covers before you book.

Helicopters on the Greek islands operate sunrise to sunset, and 55 minutes west has to land before the sun does. If the arrival at Mykonos is too late the desk offers a night on Mykonos and a morning lift, or a jet to Athens and a 25 minute helicopter to the Amanzoe pad, which is the usual arrival shape for the resort.

More on a twin-engine than a single, but less than on a short Cyclades hop, because the fuel for 55 minutes over water comes out of the payload. Give the desk the passenger and bag weights and it confirms the allowance for the type before you book. Heavy bags from a jet can travel on by road from Athens to the resort.

Four to six weeks for July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos are spoken for, the Amanzoe pad is booked against every arrival and the jet's drop-off slot at Mykonos can only be requested 14 days out. In May, June, September and October a few days is comfortable.