Mykonos to Naxos
Helicopter Charter

About 8 to 18 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, and 13 is the usual figure. The sector is 21 nautical miles from the Mykonos airport pad to the airport at Agios Prokopios or a villa pad on Naxos, straight south, with the north coast of the island in sight within minutes of lifting.

Yes. Naxos to Mykonos is the same 13 minute sector flown north, and it is often the leg people book first, because a jet leaving Mykonos has a fixed slot and forty minutes on the ground, and the helicopter puts you on the airport pad with time in hand. The desk quotes it with the outbound or on its own.

The helipad at Mykonos Airport when you have just stepped off a jet, because the aircraft has to leave within forty minutes and the helicopter is waiting. From a villa or a beach day, the club pads at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios with the venue's approval, which the desk secures before it quotes.

At Naxos Island National Airport by Agios Prokopios, three kilometres south of Chora and at sea level next to the beaches, which takes helicopters on a handling charge with no venue to ask. Or at a villa pad with the owner's approval, which the desk arranges, useful when you are staying far from the airport.

No. The runway is about 2,953 feet and there is no jet fuel, so the field takes light aircraft and helicopters only. A jet drops at Mykonos for its forty minutes, or parks at Athens, and the helicopter or a Caravan flies the last leg to Naxos.

The fast ferry does Mykonos to Naxos in about 35 minutes and the conventional ferry in about an hour and a half, port to port, before the drive to Tourlos and the wait at the Portara harbour. The helicopter is 13 minutes pad to pad, and it lifts when you are ready rather than when the timetable says.

Yes. Koufonisia, Schinousa and Iraklia lie just off the south east coast and the helicopter reaches them in minutes from Naxos, landing at approved pads. The desk quotes the whole loop from Mykonos as one trip and keeps every landing inside daylight.

On a hop this short a single-engine H130 or H125 class for four with light luggage is the usual and the economical answer. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class takes six to eight with more bags and two engines over the water between the islands. For heavy luggage the Caravan into the airstrip is the third option.

Yes, inside daylight. A day on Naxos from Mykonos is a pair of 13 minute legs: out in the morning to the airport or a villa pad, the helicopter waiting at the airport at Agios Prokopios while you have Plaka or Chora, and back before sunset. The desk prices the pair together and can bring the return forward if the afternoon wind builds.

The aircraft, single-engine, twin or Caravan; whether it is a one-way drop or a day with the helicopter waiting; the handling at Naxos airport and any fee at a club pad on Mykonos or a villa pad on Naxos; and the dates against July and August. We tell you what the quote covers before you book.

The helicopter cannot fly, because helicopters on the Greek islands operate sunrise to sunset. The desk plans around your arrival time: an earlier connection, a night on Mykonos with a morning lift, or the fast ferry to Naxos while it is running. Tell the desk the arrival time when you ask for the quote.

Light luggage on a single-engine helicopter, more on a twin-engine, and proper bags on a Caravan into the Naxos airstrip. Helicopters are limited by weight rather than by bag count, so give the desk the passenger and bag weights and it confirms the allowance for the type before you book.

Four to six weeks for July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos are spoken for and the jet's drop-off slot can only be requested 14 days out. The Naxos end is easier than most islands because the airport needs no venue approval, and in June and September a few days is comfortable.