Mykonos to Amorgos
Helicopter Charter

About 20 to 30 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind. The sector is 44 nautical miles south-east from the Mykonos airport pad, down the outside of Naxos and across the open water past Donousa to the Amorgos heliport near Chora. With the meltemi behind you the outbound leg is the quick one; the return north is flown into it.

Yes. Amorgos to Mykonos is the same sector flown north, and it is the direction that needs more care in July and August because the helicopter is heading into the meltemi. The desk quotes the return with the outbound as a pair, or on its own for a pickup at the end of a stay, and books the car from Katapola or Aegiali to the heliport.

For a passenger arriving by jet, from the helicopter pad at Mykonos Airport within the forty minutes the aircraft has on the ground. For a passenger already on Mykonos, from a beach club or hotel pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios once the venue has approved the lift, which the desk arranges with the booking.

At the island heliport near Chora, the public landing site on the ridge between the two ports, ten to fifteen minutes by road from Katapola and twenty-five to thirty from Aegiali. A villa or hotel pad can be used instead with the owner's approval, which the desk secures before it quotes. Tell the desk which end of the island you are staying at.

By the seasonal high-speed catamaran from the Mykonos port at Tourlos into Katapola, about two hours on the days it sails between spring and autumn, with nothing in winter. From Piraeus the conventional ferry into Katapola is four and a half hours at best. There is no airport, so the helicopter is the only way to arrive from Mykonos in under an hour.

A single-engine H130 or H125 class for a couple or a family of four with light luggage in settled weather. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class for six to eight with more bags, and the desk's usual answer on a day the meltemi is up, because the stretch from Naxos to Amorgos is open water.

Yes, inside daylight. The helicopter waits at the heliport near Chora while you walk down to Chozoviotissa and swim at Agia Anna below it, and the desk prices the day as the pair of legs with the waiting time. It plans the return lift for the early afternoon rather than the last hour of light, because the leg north is flown into the wind.

The helicopter type, whether it is a one-way drop or a day trip with waiting, the landings and any villa pad or beach club fees at either end, and the dates against July and August when the single heliport is shared with every operator. We tell you what the quote covers before you book.

No. Helicopters on the Greek islands operate sunrise to sunset, and Amorgos is the furthest point on the Mykonos desk, so the last lift of the day leaves Mykonos earlier than it would for Paros or Naxos. A late airline arrival can miss it; tell the desk your arrival time and it plans around it, with a night on Amorgos as the fallback if the wind holds the return.

Light luggage for four on a single-engine helicopter, more for six to eight on a twin-engine. The allowance is by weight, not by bag count, and on this sector the desk asks for real passenger and bag weights because the return leg is flown into the northerly wind. A week's bags for a large party usually means the twin-engine.

Four to six weeks in July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos are spoken for, the Amorgos heliport is shared with every other operator and the Mykonos drop-off slot for the jet can only be requested 14 days out. A few days is comfortable in May, June, September and October, with the wind deciding the day.