Mykonos to Tinos
Helicopter Charter

About 5 to 13 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, on a track of 11 nautical miles north across the strait from the Mykonos airport pad to the heliport at Agios Fokas or a villa pad. It is the shortest sector on the Mykonos desk. The ferries take 15 to 35 minutes harbour to harbour, so the saving is at the pads and the quays rather than on the water.

Yes. Tinos to Mykonos is the same eight minute sector flown south, from Agios Fokas or your villa pad to the Mykonos airport pad in time for a jet's forty-minute slot or to a beach club pad for the afternoon. The desk quotes it with the outbound or on its own, and on a hop this short the helicopter usually waits on Tinos.

Either the helipad at Mykonos Airport, where the jet has dropped you, or a beach club pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios with the venue's approval. For Tinos the club pad is the common lift, because the point of an eight minute flight is to start it where you are staying rather than from a terminal.

Yes, and it is the most common shape. Eight minutes across the strait, a morning at the Panagia Evangelistria above the port, the marble workshops of Pyrgos and the boulders at Volax, lunch in the villages, and the helicopter waiting at Agios Fokas to bring you back before sunset. Nothing about it needs a timetable.

Yes, and it is the day the helicopter earns its keep. The feast of the Assumption brings pilgrims who cross the 800 metres from the wharf to the church on their knees, every ferry is full and the port is a procession. The heliport at Agios Fokas is a few minutes from the church by car. Book weeks ahead, because the pad and the helicopter for that date go early.

On an eight minute hop the single-engine H130 or H125 class for four with light luggage is the sensible aircraft for almost everyone. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class carries six to eight with more bags and is the case for a family arriving for a week or a group for the feast. There is no fixed-wing option, because Tinos has no runway.

Yes, subject to daylight, and on this sector it almost always does, because the flight back to Mykonos is only eight minutes and the aircraft can sit at Agios Fokas or your pad. The desk prices the day as the two legs plus the wait, and you set the return time with a margin before sunset and the afternoon wind.

Yes, every day of the year: Seajets in about 10 to 15 minutes, Golden Star in 15 to 20 and Blue Star and Fast Ferries in 30 to 35, from the Mykonos port to the quays at Chora. On the water it is close to the helicopter. Where the helicopter wins is at the ends, a club pad to a heliport by the church, and on the days the boats are full.

The helicopter class, whether it is a one-way drop or a day with the helicopter waiting, the landings, meaning the heliport at Agios Fokas or a villa pad fee on Tinos plus a club pad or airport handling on Mykonos, and the dates against July, August and 15 August. The quote lists all of it before you book.

No. Helicopters on the Greek islands fly sunrise to sunset, so an evening at the church or a late dinner in Chora means a night on Tinos or the ferry back, which runs to Mykonos every day of the year in 15 to 35 minutes. Tell the desk the plan and it quotes the shape that works, including a helicopter out and a boat home.

By weight, not bag count: light bags for four on a single-engine, more on a twin-engine, and the desk confirms the allowance once it has the passengers and the bags. For a day trip most people carry almost nothing. For a week on Tinos with proper luggage, or a group for the feast, the twin-engine is the aircraft, since there is no turboprop into an island without a runway.

Four to six weeks in July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos and the pads at both ends tighten and the Mykonos slot for the jet's drop-off opens only 14 days out. For 15 August book earlier still, because the heliport and the helicopter for the feast go weeks ahead. A few days is comfortable in the shoulder months.