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Before you begin searching for the perfect tour you should know the actual helicopter companies that provide the tours. You could spend a lot of time searching numerous reseller sites all describing the same tours in various ways with potentially outdated or incorrect information.

Papillon Helicopters

(a.k.a.)

Grand Canyon Helicopters

Papillon (also known as Grand Canyon Helicopters) is the oldest and largest sightseeing helicopter company in the world. With more tour options and more flight times than any other company. Papillon caters to a broad range of customers generally at the lowest prices in the market.

Papillon has tours departing from Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon West, Las Vegas, Page Arizona, Hoover Dam, and Boulder City

1965

Year started

48

Helicopters

600+

Employees

600K

Passengers per year (avg)

Maverick Helicopters

Maverick has established itself and maintained the reputation as the premium helicopter provider in the Grand Canyon tour industry. While other companies were using less expensive aircraft or a mixture of helicopter types, Maverick always used the best helicopters available and hire the most experienced pilots. While Maverick may have less tour options than their larger competitor they make up for it with concentration in the most popular experiences as demanded by customers

Maverick has tours departing from Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon West, Las Vegas and Hawaii

1995

Year started

45

Helicopters

250+

Employees

250K

Passengers per year (avg)

OTHER COMPANIES

The vast majority of content online about helicopter tours is by resellers and brokers and much of the imagery could be outdated from helicopter companies that no longer operate tours or no longer are in business. There are some smaller companies that are not covered on this website that also offer helicopter tours which provide additional variety and options but may be limited in number of aircraft and flight times. All helicopter companies will fly the same FAA approved flight paths meaning the biggest differences between companies will not be the flight paths.

HOW MANY HELICOPTER COMPANIES ARE THERE?

There have been helicopter tours over the Grand Canyon for more than 6 decades. In that time many helicopter companies have come and gone with as many as 10 or more companies operating at the same time. Today there are only two companies that do over 90% of the helicopter tours carrying close to a million passengers per year combined . We compare those companies to save you time and money.