A new helicopter operator has launched in Greece offering scheduled flights between Athens and several islands in the Aegean Sea.
This new startup, called hoper, is the project of a group of Greek entrepreneurs intent on providing a faster way to reach tourist gateways such as Antiparos, Folegandros, Ios, Kea, Mykonos, Santorini, Sifnos, Spetses and Tinos.
While some of these places, namely tourist hotspots Mykonos and Santorini, have a fair number of air links, others are almost entirely reliant on much slower ferries for connectivity.
hoper plans to cut travel times by running scheduled flights at set times, just like a regular airline, and at prices that will be a fraction of the cost of chartering a helicopter.
For this purpose, hoper’s founders acquired an existing helicopter operator, which until now offered charter flights on a single Robinson helicopter. The startup also added four more rotorcrafts, all of them Robinson R44 and R66s.
hoper’s main base is located close to Athens International Airport (ATH), with secondary bases in Mykonos and Santorini.
With prices oscillating between €160 and €400 per person per ride (the Robinson R44 can carry three passengers and the R66, four), hoper is not a budget service. But it provides a cheaper…
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