Mykonos to Syros
Helicopter Charter

About 7 to 17 minutes depending on the helicopter and the wind, on a track of 19 nautical miles west over Delos from the Mykonos airport pad to Syros airport or a private pad. A turboprop does it airport to airport in about 10 minutes. The fast ferry takes 25 to 30 minutes and Blue Star about 45, harbour to harbour.

Yes. Syros to Mykonos is the same sector flown east, from the airport apron or your pad to the Mykonos airport pad for a jet's slot or to a beach club pad for the afternoon. The desk quotes it with the outbound or on its own, and because the ends are minutes apart the helicopter usually waits at Syros.

From the helipad at Mykonos Airport, where the jet has dropped you, or from a club pad at Ornos, Kalo Livadi or Scorpios with the venue's approval. On the Syros pair the club pad is the usual lift for a day trip, because the airport lift only makes sense when you are already there with the jet, and the return lands you back at the pad.

Only a very light jet in favourable conditions. Runway 18/36 is 3,542 feet with Category 4 fire cover, which limits the field to turboprops and a handful of the smallest jets. A midsize or larger jet lands at Mykonos for its forty minutes or at Athens, and the last leg to Syros is a helicopter or a King Air.

It is a year-round town, which is the appeal. Ermoupoli is the seat of the Cyclades administration, with the opera house, the shipyards, the neoclassical harbour front and restaurants that stay open through the winter, so the sector flies in months when Mykonos itself has emptied and the other island pads are shut.

A single-engine H130 or H125 class for four with light luggage is the usual answer for a couple or a day in Ermoupoli. A twin-engine H145, H135 or AW109 class carries six to eight with more bags. For a group with real luggage the answer is a King Air or Caravan airport to airport, which Syros can take because it has a runway.

Yes, subject to daylight. The desk prices the day as the two legs plus the waiting time, and the helicopter stays on the apron at Syros, where parking is limited and confirmed with the handler in advance, or returns to Mykonos and comes back at the time you set, with a margin before sunset.

Yes, all year and daily on Blue Star, about 45 minutes and up to an hour and twenty on a conventional boat, and 25 to 30 minutes on a Seajets fast ferry in season, into the harbour at Ermoupoli. It is the honest comparison for this pair, and the helicopter wins on the door-to-door from a villa or a jet, not on the water time alone.

The aircraft, helicopter or turboprop, whether it is a one-way drop or a day with waiting, the landings, meaning the Syros airport permission and handling or a private pad fee plus the Mykonos pad, and the dates against July and August. The quote lists all of it before you book.

No. Helicopters on the Greek islands fly sunrise to sunset, so a dinner in Ermoupoli means an overnight on Syros or the ferry back, which runs to Mykonos all year, in about 45 minutes on Blue Star. Tell the desk your plan and it quotes the shape that works, including a helicopter out and a boat home.

By weight on a helicopter: light bags for four on a single-engine and more on a twin-engine, with the desk confirming the allowance once it has the passengers and the bags. If the luggage is the problem, Syros is the hop where a turboprop airport to airport solves it, at the cost of using the airport at both ends rather than a club pad on Mykonos.

Four to six weeks in July and August, when the helicopters out of Mykonos, the apron at Syros and the Mykonos slot for the jet's drop-off, which opens only 14 days out, all tighten. Outside the season Syros is one of the easiest pairs on the desk and a few days is comfortable, with the airport permission filed with the handler.