List of helicopter airlines

This is a list of helicopter airlines. These are notable airlines which provide transport for passengers or cargo, or both, with fleets that comprise a significant proportion of helicopters.

Services offered
Some companies focus solely on winning ongoing contracts in a single industry sector, such as oil & gas. Other companies cater to a wider range of clients by offering one-off charter flights on an ad hoc basis. Services can include:


 * Aid – disaster relief, humanitarian aid
 * Agriculture – crop dusting, game monitoring, hydroseeding, livestock mustering, pest control, wildlife management
 * Firefighting – helicopter bucket, helitack
 * Flight training
 * Forestry – heli-logging, stream restoration
 * Freight – aerial crane, airdrop; general cargo and mail delivery in remote areas
 * Industrial – construction, inspection and maintenance of overhead power lines, pipelines, mobile phone towers, offshore wind farms, hydropower facilities, and other infrastructure
 * Maritime – pilot transfer and other ship-to-shore transport
 * Medical – air ambulance, medical evacuation
 * Military – aeromedical evacuation, pilot training; airlift, vertical replenishment and other logistical support
 * Oil & gas – transporting crews to and from offshore platforms
 * Passenger – VIP & corporate charter; scheduled flights from remote areas
 * Photography – aerial photography, archaeology, film production, photogrammetry, television news reporting
 * Science – water sampling, wildlife monitoring, snow radar, support to research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic
 * Search & rescue – air-sea rescue, mountain rescue
 * Surveillance – border control, coast guard, police
 * Survey – aeromagnetic, mineral exploration, reflection seismology
 * Tourism – sightseeing tours, heliskiing

Other helicopter companies
These are companies which do not qualify as airlines, strictly speaking, because they specialise in services other than the transport of passengers and cargo.