Flight Options to Skopelos from the UK

During the summer season for charter flying, the simplest way of getting to Skopelos is to fly from a regional UK airport to Skiathos (normally once a week) and then to make the short crossing by boat/hydrofoil from there to Skopelos. That is likely also to be the cheapest way (except in the high season period of mid-July to end-August and round the May bank holiday) but you are limited to an exact one- or two-week stay starting and ending on the same day of the week.

XL Airways (formerly Excel Airways) summer 2008 flights from Gatwick to Skiathos start on 9th May and run each Friday through to 3rd October (a two week longer season than 2007). They leave at 07:00  from Gatwick (same as 2007 -less convenient than 2006 season 11am departures). Arrival 12.25 local time.

XL Airways Flights

Thomson run Wednesday charters from Manchester (leaves 13:40 arrives 19:25 local) and Gatwick (leaves 07:05) from 7th May through to 15th October. The return flights gets into Gatwick at 16:00, and Manchester late (11:10pm).

Thomson Gatwick - Skiathos flights summary

Thomson Manchester - Skiathos flights summary

There are daily flights into Thessaloniki from Gatwick and Manchester (with BA and Easyjet). During high season, there's a direct boat to Skopelos from there. Otherwise, it's a long (but not unpleasant) coach ride to Volos (a not unpleasant town) and boat from there.
 

The alternative method is to use Olympic Airways from Heathrow or Manchester to Athens and to continue from there by domestic OA flight to Skiathos (and on by sea as above). This allows you complete flexibility of departure day and length of stay and, in a normal year, it can be competitive with, and sometimes cheaper than, a charter flight.

There are other scheduled airlines which can fly you to Athens, but if you do not use Olympic you will have to pay the full domestic fare for the Athens-Skiathos sector which alone is at least £80 return. The only alternative is to travel by coach from Athens to Aghios Constantinos (opposite the island of Evvia) and then take the ferry/hydrofoil to Skopelos, but that's a tedious and unrewarding journey.

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