Private jet charter in Skiathos

On Skiathos the runway chooses the aircraft before you do. Private Jets UK plans every charter to the island around that fact. Our customers have access to 6,500 jets of all types and configurations available for rent. We will help you choose the best option based on your needs and objectives. Our catalog contains the models from the largest manufacturers: Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Learjet, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pilatus, HondaJet, etc. We have established partnerships with the world's largest airlines and VIP terminals, which means we can offer you favourable flight conditions and a high level of service. Our experts will manage the organization of your flight - starting with paperwork, agreements, etc., and ending with a transfer and meeting at the airport. Our company provides a full range of business aviation and concierge services. Alexandros Papadiamantis Airport has a single asphalt runway of 1,628 m, built on reclaimed land beside a public road, and the biggest airliner it takes is about the size of a Boeing 757-200. For a private passenger that means a light or a midsize jet, a flight of about three hours from the London fields, and a handler who has the parking permission in hand before the aircraft leaves Britain.

 

 

At your request, the aviation consultants of Private Jets UK will help you choose the jet with the suitable technical parameters (production year, flight hours, and home base). The cost of the private jet charter in Skiathos depends on many factors, such as the model of the business jet, the number of passengers, departure and destination airports, type of flight, duration of parking, additional services, etc. Therefore, we calculate the price of each order individually taking into account your wishes. You can use an online calculator to get an instant charter quote. Please indicate your real contact details to get the final calculation.

You can calculate the cost of your flight in several ways:

• using an online calculator on the website (however, it shows only the approximate price);
• via Messenger (WhatsApp or Telegram);
• by landline or cell phone;
• via e-mail (jets@private-jets.co.uk).

 

 

Please note that the above-mentioned price is indicative only. It is calculated on this basis: a departure from Biggin Hill, an Embraer Phenom 300E and two passengers aboard. If you want to get a personal quote, just fill out the online booking form below. Our aviation consultant will make the calculation within 20 minutes, and then contact you to specify the details of the flight.

 

How long does it take to fly to Skiathos?

About three hours and ten minutes from Biggin Hill or London City in a Phenom 300E, a little over that from Luton and Farnborough, and close to four hours from Edinburgh or Glasgow in a midsize cabin, with a two-hour clock change on arrival because Greece keeps Eastern European time. The British fields we use lie 1,271 to 1,554 nautical miles from the island, which every light and midsize jet we quote covers without a stop. The table gives the sector from each field.

 

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Skiathos

Typical trips from Britain, cheapest first, all of them into Skiathos Airport. July, August and the Saturdays of the holiday season sit above these figures, and the calendar block further down explains when. Handling and the parking permission are quoted as separate lines.

 

We can arrange the flights from any cities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and European countries. Due to a large database of available business jets, we can help you find an optimal jet and crew. If you have any questions about the departure or the flight itself, you can ask them using the form below:

 

 

Private jet flights from Skiathos

Flights out of Skiathos are mostly short and in small aircraft. Athens, Thessaloniki and the Cyclades are short sectors, the business neighbours are a couple of hours away, and anything bigger than a midsize jet starts its journey on a longer runway on the mainland. Typical one-way prices:

 

 

Prices depending on the type of business jet

We can clearly show the high dependence of the cost of the flight, on the type of aircraft - we have collected approximate data, at the price of 1 flight hour, for various types of business jets:

 

 

The cost per hour indicated in the table is preliminary and does not constitute an offer or a commercial offer. Exact prices are available from the managers of the company.

 

Online Calculator

If you want to make an urgent calculation of the cost of a private plane flight, use our online calculator. Just fill in all the fields of the form with a note that you are interested in a specific model of the aircraft and get the final price. NB! - the figures are sent to you by email or messenger, please carefully fill in the contact details to get the calculation.

All our calculations are as transparent as possible for you. After receiving the request, we will prepare a beautiful offer - where the costs and the final price will be clearly described. The exact price is agreed in advance and is written in the contract, so you can be sure of the final cost.

 

 

Private jets are ready to take off

Our database contains over 6,500 business jets (about 3,500 in Europe and 3,000 in the rest of the world) of different configurations and production years. The list of models is constantly updated. Unfortunately, we can't post a full list of available jets on our website due to confidentiality issues. Please contact the managers of the company for more accurate information. We will help you choose a suitable model taking into account your wishes. These are the typical choices for Skiathos:

 

 

 

This is a small part of what is available. Skiathos is far from the busiest business aviation airports in Greece, so in the summer an aircraft is often positioned from Athens, Thessaloniki or Italy, and the quote may name one of those cities as the starting point. That is normal for a small island airport with almost no based jets, and it is frequently where the better price comes from.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Skiathos in 6 easy steps:

1. Flight request - indicating the route and your preferences for the model of business jet and other points.
2. Coordination of flight details - our consultant will contact you to offer the possible flight options and answer all your questions.
3. Commercial offer - we will send you a final offer on a specific model taking into account all your wishes.
4. Signing of the contract.
5. Payment for the flight and booking a business jet.
6. Departure at the agreed time and date. Assistance during the whole flight.

In addition to renting the private jets and arranging the flights, we provide concierge services, premium transfer, security, exclusive catering, etc. We have learned to solve problems of any complexity, offering the service of the European level. Our experts will be happy to answer your questions and help you arrange your flight.

 

How to rent a business jet with a crew

5 main stages:

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  Sending an application

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  Clarification of details and search for options

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  Preparation and coordination of optimal options

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  Registration of documents. Payment of the invoice.

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  Departure on the route.

 

Business aviation airports for Skiathos

One airport serves the island, and the useful question is whether the aircraft lands there or on the mainland. The other airports below are the parking places, the alternates and the starting points for a boat.

 

Four points settle most Skiathos arrivals:

 

 

Landing permits, the Schengen border and the way home

A private flight into Greece does not usually need a separate landing permit. What it needs is the parking permission and the slot, issued through the handler, and the operator has to be licensed for the route. Operators from outside the EU, which since Brexit includes British ones, need a permit from the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority for charter flights, applied for at least five working days ahead, and in summer it can take longer. The rule that surprises clients is cabotage: a non-EU operator may fly the UK to Greece and back but may not carry passengers between two Greek airports. London to Thessaloniki to Skiathos on one British charter is therefore ruled out, while London to Skiathos nonstop is allowed, and a trip that needs both airports gets a different plan. We arrange the permits and say plainly when a trip cannot be flown as drawn.

For the flight home, the General Aviation Report for Britain is filed not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 2 hours before departure, and any passenger who needs an Electronic Travel Authorisation for the UK must hold it before boarding. British and Irish citizens are exempt. The handler who arranged the arrival files the paperwork for the departure too. Cash worth about £8,500 or more must be declared on entry to the EU.

 

 

From the apron to Skiathos Town

Skiathos is a small island with one town, one coast road and a lot of coastline that is easier to reach by water than by land. The runway sits beside the town, the best-known beach is at the opposite end, and the neighbouring islands are a boat ride away.

 

Koukounaries, Lalaria and the beaches by boat

A day on Skiathos is organised around the sea. Most of the famous places are beaches, and the two that clients ask for by name need different handling.

Koukounaries, at the south-western end of the island, is the one with a road. It lies inside a protected area of the EU's Natura network, 88 hectares in all, that protects the Strofylia pine forest behind the beach, and the beach is the last stop of the island's bus route. It is also one of the busiest, with wooden walkways across the sand, beach bars and an excursion-boat harbour, so a party that wants a quiet corner goes early or late. A taxi from the airport takes about 19 minutes for the 15 km, and in the summer weeks it is sensible to book the car in advance because taxis on the island are limited. A helicopter landing here is never assumed, since the area is a protected one.

Lalaria is the other. It is a white-pebble beach on the north coast under steep cliffs, with a natural arch and three sea grottoes just to the east, and it cannot be reached on foot: you arrive by excursion boat from the Old Port. The round-island cruise gives about an hour ashore, passes the beaches of Mandraki, Agia Eleni and Koukounaries without stopping, and also calls at Kastro, the former island capital on its rock. Cruises last 7 to 8 hours and leave in the morning, so a private party that wants the beach without the crowd books a boat of its own and goes while the group boats are still at breakfast. Wind decides the day. The north coast is exposed, and when the summer meltemi blows the boat captain, not the client, chooses the beach.

The rest of the coast is quieter. Tsougria, the islet in the bay of Skiathos Town, has two sand beaches and a taverna and is a short boat ride from the Old Port. On the north coast, Megalos Aselinos is a large, exposed beach, quietest at the end of the day, while Mandraki can be reached on foot from Koukounaries. Yacht flotillas and charters sail from Skiathos in summer, and a party joining a boat is one of the usual reasons for a charter flight here.

 

Skopelos, Mamma Mia and the marine park of Alonissos

Skiathos is the airport for a small archipelago, and a good share of private clients spend only a day or two on the island itself.

Skopelos is the Mamma Mia island. The chapel of Agios Ioannis in the Kastri area, on a rocky hill reached by about 200 steps, is the wedding chapel of the film and lies about 15 minutes from the village of Glossa. Kastani beach is roughly a 30-minute drive from Skopelos Town, Glysteri beach is among the nearest to town, and Cape Amarandos on the south-west coast has fish tavernas close by. The Old Port of Skiathos appears in the film as the place where the three men try to catch their boat, and a third location, the village of Damouchari, is across the water in Pelion. Skopelos has no airport, so the route is a plane to Skiathos and a fast boat across; some villa packages on Skopelos include the airport taxi and the crossing, and we price the boat as its own line when we quote.

Alonissos is the home of the National Marine Park of the Northern Sporades, the first marine park in Greece and described as the largest marine protected area in Europe, covering more than 2,200 square kilometres. It protects the Mediterranean monk seal, of which roughly a tenth of the world population is said to live here, although sightings are rare and dolphins are the more likely encounter. Boats leave from Patitiri on Alonissos from about ten in the morning and return around half past six, and organised trips also run from Skiathos and Skopelos; they usually stop at Kyra Panagia and last six to eight hours. The core zones are closed to vessels, so the captain decides how close the boat may go, and the excursions run from May to October, with May, June, September and October the quietest.

 

Villas on Skiathos

Most private clients on Skiathos stay in a villa, and the choice of one decides the journey more than the choice of aircraft does. The island is small, but the main road is a single coastal one, so the south-west end at Koukounaries is further from the runway than it looks on a map. A villa near the town is minutes from the apron, a villa at Koukounaries about 20 minutes, and the harder-to-reach north coast is for a 4x4 or a boat.

 

Flying to Skiathos with a dog or a cat

Greece asks for a good deal of paperwork, and the flight is long enough for a dog to settle and sleep. The animal sits beside you in the cabin, never in a hold. Two details go wrong most often: the date on the health certificate, which is valid for only ten days for entry to the EU, and the airport at which the animal is allowed to arrive.

 

 

What Greece asks for when a pet arrives from Britain:

• An ISO microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination or at the same time;
• A rabies vaccination given when the animal was at least 12 weeks old, with 21 days elapsed before the animal travels;
• An Animal Health Certificate for each trip, issued by an Official Veterinarian and valid for ten days for entry to the EU, and valid for the return as stated on the certificate. A British pet passport cannot be used to enter the EU;
• No more than five animals per traveller, presented at an authorised point of entry. The Greek foreign ministry's list names Athens and Thessaloniki airports among the border inspection posts, and the island entry points it lists do not include Skiathos;
• For dogs, a tapeworm treatment from a vet between 24 and 120 hours before arrival back in Britain, recorded on the paperwork. Cats are exempt.

Requirements for cats, ferrets, birds and anything less usual are collected on our flying with pets guide. For the entry point and the paperwork on the way home, we confirm both in writing before the flight, and our managers check the position for your dates before a booking is taken.

 

The Skiathos calendar: a short summer and a quiet winter

Skiathos has a clear season. From June to September the island is busy, the sea is warm and the airport works long days; the rest of the year it keeps a short timetable, the boats thin out and the choice of week matters more than the choice of aircraft.

 

Ways to bring the Skiathos price down

• Move the dates out of July and August where you can. The second half of September is warm, dry and noticeably easier to arrange;
• Avoid the weekend changeover days when the choice is yours. A Tuesday or a Wednesday arrival is usually easier for the apron and for the villa;
• Compare the airports. On the same Phenom from Biggin Hill, Thessaloniki is priced about £850 lower than Skiathos and Volos about £300 lower, but you then take a car and the boat, or a helicopter, so let the place you are sleeping decide.

 

Types of flights

Skiathos produces a different mix from the cities we cover, because people go there for the sea and the beaches, not for meetings. Almost everything is leisure, and almost everything is short on the ground.

• Villa weeks for families and friends, usually flown out at the weekend or midweek and back a week later;
• Yacht handovers and sailing holidays, joining a boat at Skiathos or Volos with soft bags and a fixed date;
• Island hopping to Skopelos for the Mamma Mia locations, and to Alonissos for the marine park, by Flying Dolphin from the Old Port;
• Day trips on a private boat to Lalaria, Kastro and Tsougria, with a car at the harbour;
• Pelion and Volos combinations, landing at Volos and finishing the journey by boat or by road;
• Connections through Thessaloniki, for a party or a pet that has to clear Greece at an airport with a border post.

A same-day return is the one pattern that does not work. The sector alone is over three hours each way, the apron is small, and the airport closes in the evening, so the aircraft cannot wait for you. A short stay is therefore planned as two separate one-way flights, and we quote it that way, so the figure you see is the one you pay.

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. On the Skiathos route the aircraft that cannot stay on the apron produce a steady supply of them, and it helps to know where they come from.

Because the corridor is far thinner in winter than in the peak, a client who can name a few days rather than one has a far better chance than one who needs a particular evening. What you give up is the usual: the operator owns the date and the hour, and a leg can vanish when the original booking moves. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page, and we flag a Skiathos match the day an operator releases it.

 

 

Helicopter charter

In the Sporades a helicopter competes with a boat for the same job, which is the stretch between a runway and a place that has none. The routes that matter are Volos or Thessaloniki to the island, Skiathos to Skopelos and a transfer between the airport and a villa on the far side of the island, and the weather decides which of them a helicopter wins.

The machines on this ground are the Airbus H125 for island and coastal work, the wider H130 for villa and harbour transfers, the H135 and the Bell 429 where a twin is wanted, and the H155 for larger parties. We book them alongside the jet so that both crews work to one timetable.

 

 

Flight payment options

The main goal of our company is to provide the highest level of comfort to our customers. Therefore, we're always ready to meet you halfway. Our consultants will offer you a wide variety of flights to meet your needs and budget. Most customers prefer a non-cash method (a transfer to an EU bank account), which guarantees a high level of confidentiality and security of payment. All payment details are provided in advance, so you'll have enough time to make the necessary checks. For years of working in business aviation, our company has gained an impeccable reputation. We practice transparency and are always ready to present all necessary documents.

Private Jets UK works with both physical and legal entities. We guarantee the confidentiality and security of payments. You can pay for the flights from Skiathos in any convenient way:

• cashless (by transfer to our account);
• by cash;
• by card;
• by cryptocurrency.

 

Our company works with European and British banks, which allows you to choose the most convenient payment method. In addition, we conclude formal agreements and provide our clients with all necessary documents and invoices, which guarantees the safe payment and delivery of services. If you have any financial questions, feel free to contact our private aviation consultants.

If you need to book an urgent flight, please keep in mind that the bank transfer can take a few days. In such situations, we may need to involve our partner companies so that you can pay for your flight in cash. If you have any questions, you can contact your personal consultant 24/7.

 

 

Flights from the UK to Skiathos

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Birmingham and Manchester behind them and Scotland at the long end; the price table higher up covers thirteen of those pairings. Our clients have access to all airports of the UK and Europe. Due to the unique partnership conditions, we can offer our clients the best prices for business aviation services. Our experts will consult you on the availability of private jets in a particular city and help you choose the best option.

 

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Skiathos charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

What the corridor looks like once a quote turns into a flight. Six typical jobs of the kind that come through our booking notes, described in outline, with the particulars changed.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Skiathos