Mykonos to Sifnos
Helicopter Charter

About 20 to 30 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, on a track of 41 nautical miles west from the Mykonos airport pad to the heliport near Apollonia or a villa pad. The direct ferry, on the days it sails between March and November, takes about two hours to Kamares on the fastest boat, and a change at Paros makes it longer.

Yes. The return is the same sector flown east, from the heliport near Apollonia or your villa pad to the Mykonos airport pad in time for a jet's forty-minute slot, or to a beach club pad. The desk quotes it with the outbound or on its own, and positions the helicopter in for the pickup inside daylight.

From the helipad at Mykonos Airport, where the jet has dropped you and cannot stay, or from a beach club pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios with the venue's approval. For Sifnos the desk usually pairs the lift with the jet's arrival, so you walk from one aircraft to the other and are on the island about 25 minutes after lifting.

At the municipal heliport near Apollonia, the island's main town, a licensed landing site used with prior permission that the desk files, or at a villa or hotel pad with the owner's approval. From the heliport, Apollonia and Artemonas are a few minutes by car, Kastro is on the east coast and Kamares port is about ten minutes to the west.

Yes, and it is the classic use of the sector. A morning lift from Mykonos, lunch in Artemonas or Kastro, or a clay-pot revithada in a village taverna, and the helicopter waits at the heliport to bring you back before sunset. Give the desk the restaurant and the time and it plans the day around it, with the afternoon wind in mind.

A single-engine H130 or H125 class for four with light luggage is the usual aircraft for a lunch party or a couple. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class carries six to eight with more bags and gives two engines for the open water west of Paros, which is the answer for a family arriving for a week. There is no turboprop option because Sifnos has no runway.

Yes, subject to daylight. The desk prices the day as the two legs plus the waiting time, and the helicopter stays at the heliport near Apollonia or repositions to Paros, about twelve minutes away, and comes back at the time you set. The desk keeps that time clear of the afternoon wind in July and August and leaves a margin before sunset.

Yes, but not a convenient one. A direct sailing to Kamares runs a few days a week from about March to November and takes around two hours on the fastest boat; otherwise it is a change at Paros with a wait between ferries. In winter there is no direct ferry at all, which is one reason the heliport matters to anyone with a house on the island.

The helicopter class, whether it is a one-way drop or a lunch trip with waiting, the landings, meaning the heliport permission or a villa pad fee on Sifnos and a club pad or airport handling on Mykonos, and the dates against July, August and the island's feast weeks. The quote lists all of it before you book.

No. Helicopters on the Greek islands fly sunrise to sunset, so a dinner on Sifnos means a night on the island rather than a late flight back, and the desk says so at the quote. A jet landing late at Mykonos can miss the last lift, so tell the desk your arrival time and it plans the Sifnos leg for the next morning if the light has gone.

Light bags for four on a single-engine, more on a twin-engine. The limit is weight, not bag count, so give the desk the passengers and the bags in kilos and it confirms the allowance. For a week on Sifnos with proper luggage the twin-engine is usually the aircraft, since there is no turboprop alternative into an island without a runway.

Four to six weeks for July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos and the pads on Sifnos both tighten and the Mykonos slot for the jet's drop-off can only be requested 14 days out. Add margin for the August feasts of the Virgin and the September panigiria, when the island is full. A few days is comfortable in June and the shoulder months.