Mykonos to Ios
Helicopter Charter

About 20 to 30 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, and the hotels on Ios quote it at about eighteen. The sector is 43 nautical miles due south from the Mykonos airport pad, down the east coast of Naxos and across the strait to the Ios heliport or a hotel pad, with the meltemi behind you on the way down.

Yes. Ios to Mykonos is the same sector flown north, usually the morning after a night on the island, and it is the leg flown into the meltemi in July and August, so the desk books it early in the day. It quotes the return with the outbound as a pair or on its own for a pickup at the end of a stay, and lands you on the Mykonos airport pad for the jet.

From the helicopter pad at Mykonos Airport if a jet has just dropped you, inside the forty minutes the aircraft has on the ground. From a beach club or hotel pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios if you are already on Mykonos, once the venue has approved the lift, which the desk arranges when it books the helicopter.

At the island heliport, the public landing site, or on a hotel pad such as Calilo's at Papas Beach with the property's approval, which the desk secures before it quotes. Chora and the port at Gialos are a short drive from the heliport, and Mylopotas a little further. Tell the desk where you are staying and it confirms the landing with the quote.

About an hour and twenty-five minutes on the fastest Seajets catamaran from the new port at Tourlos, about an hour and fifty-five on Golden Star, and four and a half hours on the sailings that call at Naxos and Paros on the way. Up to six departures a day in high summer, none in winter. The helicopter takes about twenty-five minutes.

Yes. Santorini is about eleven minutes south of Ios by helicopter, and the desk quotes Mykonos to Ios to Santorini as one trip, with a swim at Mylopotas or lunch in Chora in the middle. The Santorini landing is the airport helipad or a hotel pad on the caldera rim with the hotel's approval, secured before the quote.

A single-engine H130 or H125 class for a couple or a family of four with light luggage, the usual aircraft on a sector that follows the Naxos coast most of the way. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class for six to eight with more bags, or for a day the northerly wind is strong on the return leg.

Yes, inside daylight. The helicopter waits at the island heliport while you spend the day at Mylopotas or in Chora, and the desk prices it as the pair of legs with the waiting time. It plans the return lift with a margin before sunset, because the leg back to Mykonos is flown into the wind in summer and helicopters on the islands do not fly after dark.

The helicopter type, whether it is a one-way drop, a day trip with waiting or an onward leg to Santorini, the landings and any hotel pad or beach club fees at either end, and the dates against July and August when the Ios pads and the Mykonos helicopters both tighten. We tell you what the quote covers before you book.

No. Helicopters on the Greek islands operate sunrise to sunset, which matters on Ios more than most because the island runs late. A dinner in Chora ends with a night on the island and a morning lift, not a flight back to Mykonos. A late airline arrival into Mykonos can also miss the last lift south, so tell the desk your arrival time and it plans around it.

Light luggage for four on a single-engine helicopter, more for six to eight on a twin-engine. The allowance is by weight rather than by bag count, so give the desk accurate passenger and bag weights and it confirms the figure for the type. For a week on Ios with heavy bags the desk sometimes quotes the twin, or sends the luggage down on the ferry and the passengers by helicopter.

Four to six weeks in July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos are spoken for, the hotel pad approvals on Ios take longest and the Mykonos drop-off slot for the jet can only be requested 14 days out. A few days is comfortable in June and September, and the public heliport removes the approval wait when a hotel pad is not needed.