Helicopter hire in Naples
Twenty minutes from Naples airport to Capri, Ischia, Sorrento or Ravello, and tours over the islands, Pompeii and Vesuvius.
- Naples to Capri
- 20 min
- Published fare
- From €1,900
- Base
- Naples Capodichino (LIRN)
- Tours
- From €2,750
Flying from Naples by helicopter
Hoverfly publishes Naples to Capri from €1,900 for up to four passengers, including taxes and the 10-minute transfer between the landing helipad and the airport terminal. The flight takes about 20 minutes, the same as to Ischia (from €2,400), Sorrento (from €2,000) or Ravello (from €2,000). Other trips are priced for the whole helicopter, at about €1,420 to €4,130 per flight hour.
Naples Capodichino is the gateway: you can step off a jet and board a helicopter for the islands or the Amalfi Coast without the port or the coast road.
Hoverfly has its second operational base at Naples Capodichino International Airport, for immediate boarding, and names Naples and Capri as its two main heliports for the bay. Its operational headquarters is at Bellizzi, beside Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport. ENAC lists Naples as a strategic airport.
Beyond the islands, Hoverfly lists Naples to Rome in about an hour, Ponza in 40 minutes, the Aeolian Islands in 1 hour 20 minutes and Olbia in 1 hour 50 minutes.
Arriving by jet? See private jets to Naples or Milan to Naples by jet.
Sources:Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): transfers and routes, flight times and fares, 19 October 2026Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): bases, transfers and tours, prices as published 19 October 2026Hoverfly: helicopter charter from NaplesENAC: Aeroporti in Italia (airports of national interest)Wikipedia: Naples International Airport
Helicopter transfers from Naples
- Flight time
- 20 min
- Published price
- From €1,900
- Passengers
- Up to 4
- Flight time
- 20 min
- Published price
- From €2,000
- Passengers
- Up to 4
- Flight time
- 20 min
- Published price
- From €2,000
- Passengers
- Up to 4
- Flight time
- 20 min
- Published price
- From €2,400
- Passengers
- Up to 4
- Flight time
- 40 min
- Published price
- On request
- Passengers
- On request
- Flight time
- 1 hr
- Published price
- On request
- Passengers
- On request
- Flight time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Published price
- On request
- Passengers
- On request
- Flight time
- 1 hr 50 min
- Published price
- On request
- Passengers
- On request
- Flight time
- 2 hr 10 min
- Published price
- On request
- Passengers
- On request
Published by [[Hoverfly|/en-it/operators/hoverfly/]] through Capri Helicopters, checked 19 October 2026. Transfer fares include taxes and the 10-minute transfer between the landing helipad and the airport terminal.
Sources:Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): transfers and routes, flight times and fares, 19 October 2026
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Bay of Naples helicopter tours
- Route
- Capri, Ischia and Procida
- Flight time
- 50 or 60 min
- Published price
- From €2,750, up to 6
- Route
- Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius, from Naples or Capri
- Flight time
- On request
- Published price
- From €2,750, up to 6
- Route
- Capri, Sorrento and Positano
- Flight time
- 50 or 60 min
- Published price
- From €3,100
Private tours as published by Hoverfly, checked 19 October 2026. Prices include fuel, taxes and insurance.
Sources:Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): bases, transfers and tours, prices as published 19 October 2026
Weather on the bay
At Naples airport, average highs run from 13.4 °C in January to 31.0 °C in August, with about 87 days of rain a year. November is the wettest month and July the driest. Island flights are visual and by day at landing sites, so cloud or strong wind can delay a crossing; the ferry is the fallback.
Sources:Wikipedia: Naples, climate (Naples airport normals 1991 to 2020)ENAC: Regolamento Liberalizzazione dell'uso delle aree di atterraggio (avio, idro ed elisuperfici), Ed. 1 Rev. 2 of 5 February 2026 (PDF)
Bags, children and paperwork
- Hoverfly's island transfers take up to 4 passengers, with one bag each of 65 x 40 x 25 cm and 15 kg. Its helicopters take up to 6 passengers; larger groups fly in more than one.
- Elsewhere its guide is one soft, medium bag of about 15 to 20 kg and one small carry-on each. Extra luggage can follow by road for a fee.
- Children travel with an adult. Under 2s sit on a parent's lap; older children need a seat. Pets travel in a suitable carrier.
- The passenger list is an official document: you complete and sign it, accepting the dangerous goods rules. Some airports and helipads ask for passport copies before they authorise the landing.
- Hoverfly's operations office sends a brief the day before, with meeting points, timings and driver contacts.
Sources:Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): transfers and routes, flight times and fares, 19 October 2026Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): FAQHoverfly: private helicopter transfers, pricing, payment and passenger rules
Where a helicopter may land in Italy
Away from airports, ENAC regulates landing sites under its regulation on the liberalised use of landing areas. It took effect on 8 December 2023; the second revision, of 5 February 2026, was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 73 of 28 March 2026.
- An elisuperficie is a landing site, other than a heliport, for helicopters only; it counts as elevated when it sits on a structure 3 m or more above the ground. An idrosuperficie is a water site for seaplanes or helicopters with floats, and the regulation treats both as kinds of aviosuperficie, landing areas that are not airports.
- A permanent elisuperficie opens only after its manager files the documents with ENAC, including the landowner's consent and a noise assessment. Flying starts when ENAC publishes the site, within 30 days of a complete file. ENAC has moved the published list to the Avioportolano site.
- ENAC checks each site at least every three years and can suspend one whose real state differs from what the manager published.
- A helicopter may also use an occasional site: up to 100 movements a year, by day under visual flight rules, within 500 m of the notified coordinates. The pilot alone is responsible for choosing the area.
- Occasional sites need the owner's consent on private land, serve only flights that start and end in Italy with no stop abroad, and the take-off and landing may not overfly built-up areas or crowds.
- Before the flight, the pilot notifies the local ENAC office and the public security authority of the coordinates and the time window. Since 1 June 2025 these notices go only through ENAC's online portal, with SPID access.
- Commercial passenger flights may use occasional sites within these rules. A helicopter operator's own base must be a managed elisuperficie with a ground radio.
- Flying at these sites is visual and by day. Helicopters may fly at night only to a site with lighting and a visual approach guidance system.
- An elisuperficie in a town may be used only where emergency landing areas exist under the departure and approach paths, unless the helicopter flies in Performance Class 1.
Sources:ENAC: Regolamento Liberalizzazione dell'uso delle aree di atterraggio (avio, idro ed elisuperfici), Ed. 1 Rev. 2 of 5 February 2026 (PDF)ENAC, 23 March 2026: Regolamento Liberalizzazione dell'uso delle aree di atterraggio, Ed. 1 Rev. 2ENAC: Avio-Idro-Elisuperfici, notices from February 2024 to 24 March 2026
Check the operator's certificate
- A paid passenger flight needs an operator with an air operator certificate (COA). ENAC's list of 25 March 2026 shows more than 30 Italian holders approved for helicopters, Hoverfly (IT.AOC.0167), Elilombarda (IT.AOC.0052) and Heliwest (IT.AOC.0088) among them.
- 23 helicopters sit on the charter fleets of the Italian certificate holders in our data, from the single-engine Airbus H125 to the twin-engine AW139.
- Hoverfly flies at night only to and from airports or certified helipads, in twin-engine helicopters approved for night operations.
- As a broker, Altivo Jets names the operator and its certificate on your quote. Our guide Is my flight legal? shows how to check one yourself.
Sources:ENAC: list of air operator certificate (COA) holders under EU Regulation 965/2012, 25 March 2026 (PDF)Hoverfly: private helicopter transfers, pricing, payment and passenger rules
Helicopters flying the Bay of Naples
Hoverfly's fleet runs from the single-engine EC120, EC130 and H125 to twin-engine AS355s, AW109s and an AW139.
Operators in Naples
ENAC air operator certificate holders flying charters from Naples.
Sources:ENAC: list of air operator certificate (COA) holders under EU Regulation 965/2012, 25 March 2026 (PDF)Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): transfers and routes, flight times and fares, 19 October 2026Helicopters Italy (flights by Hoverfly SAM): helicopters to Capri, fares as published 19 October 2026
Questions, answered
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Ask a specialistHow long is the helicopter from Naples to Capri?+
About 20 minutes.
How much is the helicopter from Naples to Capri?+
Hoverfly publishes it from €1,900 for up to four passengers, including taxes and the transfer between helipad and terminal.
Can I fly straight from Naples airport?+
Yes. Hoverfly's transfers leave from its base at Naples Capodichino International Airport.
How much luggage can I take?+
One bag per passenger of 65 x 40 x 25 cm and 15 kg on the transfers. More luggage can follow by road.
Are there helicopter tours over Vesuvius?+
Yes. Hoverfly's ruins tour covers Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius, from €2,750 for up to six.
Can I fly from Naples to Rome by helicopter?+
Yes, in about an hour, priced on request.
Fares, dates and rules on this page were checked on 19 October 2026. Official fares and schedules change every season; the operator or authority named in each source has the final word.
- 1.Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): transfers and routes, flight times and fares, 19 October 2026
- 2.Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): bases, transfers and tours, prices as published 19 October 2026
- 3.Hoverfly: helicopter charter from Naples
- 4.ENAC: Aeroporti in Italia (airports of national interest)
- 5.Wikipedia: Naples International Airport
- 6.Wikipedia: Naples, climate (Naples airport normals 1991 to 2020)
- 7.ENAC: Regolamento Liberalizzazione dell'uso delle aree di atterraggio (avio, idro ed elisuperfici), Ed. 1 Rev. 2 of 5 February 2026 (PDF)
- 8.Capri Helicopters (Hoverfly): FAQ
- 9.Hoverfly: private helicopter transfers, pricing, payment and passenger rules
- 10.ENAC, 23 March 2026: Regolamento Liberalizzazione dell'uso delle aree di atterraggio, Ed. 1 Rev. 2
- 11.ENAC: Avio-Idro-Elisuperfici, notices from February 2024 to 24 March 2026
- 12.ENAC: list of air operator certificate (COA) holders under EU Regulation 965/2012, 25 March 2026 (PDF)
- 13.Helicopters Italy (flights by Hoverfly SAM): helicopters to Capri, fares as published 19 October 2026
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