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Repositioning Flights
One-way repositioning flights, priced well below a full charter. Compare them against our reference charter prices, then set an alert for your route.
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An empty leg (or repositioning flight) is a private jet flying without passengers — typically returning to base or moving to pick up its next clients. Since the aircraft has to fly anyway, operators sell these segments at 50–75% below the standard charter price. Same aircraft, same crew, same service — a fraction of the cost.
The trade-off is flexibility: routes and dates are fixed by the original charter, and schedules can shift if the main booking changes. If your plans are flexible, empty legs are simply the cheapest way to fly private. Set an alert below and we will email you the moment a matching flight appears.
Every broker advertises a discount. Almost nobody publishes the price it is discounted from. Below is what a standard charter costs on 15 European corridors that structurally generate repositioning flights — so you can judge any empty leg offer you receive, including ours.
Read it this way: under half the light jet price, the offer is genuinely good. Above two thirds of it, a fixed schedule rarely justifies the saving.
December – March
Aircraft carry passengers up to the ski resorts and come back empty. Geneva and Zurich are the busiest repositioning points in Europe during the winter season.
| Route | Flight time | Light jet | Midsize | Heavy jet | Empty leg range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva Verbier94 km | 28min | €4,500 | €7,500 | €12,000 | €1,100–€2,300 |
| Geneva Courchevel102 km | 29min | €4,500 | €7,500 | €12,000 | €1,100–€2,300 |
| Zurich St. Moritz145 km | 32min | €4,500 | €7,500 | €12,000 | €1,100–€2,300 |
| Paris Geneva410 km | 55min | €5,500 | €8,500 | €13,000 | €1,400–€2,800 |
| London Geneva753 km | 1h 25min | €8,000 | €12,000 | €19,000 | €2,000–€4,000 |
June – September
The same mechanism, redirected south: jets fill up towards the islands and return empty. Nice, Milan, Palma and Ibiza produce most of the summer repositioning traffic.
| Route | Flight time | Light jet | Midsize | Heavy jet | Empty leg range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palma Ibiza140 km | 32min | €4,500 | €7,500 | €12,000 | €1,100–€2,300 |
| Barcelona Ibiza276 km | 44min | €5,000 | €7,500 | €12,000 | €1,300–€2,500 |
| Nice Olbia361 km | 51min | €5,500 | €8,000 | €12,000 | €1,400–€2,800 |
| Milan Olbia506 km | 1h 3min | €6,500 | €9,500 | €15,000 | €1,600–€3,300 |
| London Ibiza1,370 km | 2h 17min | €12,000 | €18,000 | €28,000 | €3,000–€6,000 |
All year round
Fleet bases — Le Bourget, Farnborough, Luton, Zurich — generate repositioning flights in both directions all year. Less seasonal, more frequent, and usually at shorter notice.
| Route | Flight time | Light jet | Midsize | Heavy jet | Empty leg range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris London379 km | 52min | €5,500 | €8,000 | €13,000 | €1,400–€2,800 |
| Frankfurt London619 km | 1h 13min | €7,000 | €11,000 | €16,000 | €1,800–€3,500 |
| Paris Nice695 km | 1h 20min | €7,500 | €12,000 | €18,000 | €1,900–€3,800 |
| Zurich London773 km | 1h 26min | €8,000 | €12,000 | €19,000 | €2,000–€4,000 |
| Milan London975 km | 1h 44min | €9,500 | €14,000 | €22,000 | €2,400–€4,800 |
Charter prices are Flyius estimates for a full one-way charter, modelled from distance, block time and aircraft category. They are the same figures published on each route page — no page on this site contradicts another.
The empty leg range is not a Flyius measurement. Our supplier feed provides a one-way price but no reference price, so no discount can be computed on our side. What we show is the market band typically observed — 50% to 75% below charter — applied to the light jet price. We will replace it with measured discounts once European inventory carries reference prices.
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Understanding this answers the question everyone actually has: why is there never an empty leg on the route I want, on the date I want?
An aircraft based at one airport flies a client somewhere else, then has to come home. That return sector is flown empty whatever happens — selling it costs the operator almost nothing.
A jet based at Le Bourget drops a client in Nice on Friday evening and flies back to Paris empty.
The reverse case: the aircraft is not where the next client is. It flies out empty to collect them, and that outbound sector is the one available to you.
A jet finishing a charter in Milan flies empty to Geneva to start a booking there the next morning.
For a few weeks a year, traffic runs almost entirely one way. Every arrival creates a departure nobody wants to buy — which is exactly when empty legs are most abundant.
In February everyone flies into Geneva and Courchevel. In August, everyone flies into Ibiza and Olbia.
Empty legs are not created by demand. They are created by imbalance.
That is why you rarely find one on the exact route and date you want, and why the busiest corridors are not the ones producing the most empty legs. If you want a realistic chance of catching one, stay flexible on the airport and the day — or set an alert and let it come to you.
The aircraft, the crew and the private terminal are identical to a full charter. What changes is control — and it changes a lot.
In short: an empty leg is excellent when your plans can bend around the flight. It is a poor idea when the flight has to bend around your plans.
Departure time is set by the operator's original mission, not by you. Some will shift by an hour or two; most will not move at all.
You will need a separate solution to get back — usually a scheduled flight, or a second empty leg that may not exist. Price the whole trip, not just the outbound.
If the paying charter that creates the repositioning changes or falls through, the empty leg disappears with it. You are refunded, but you still need a plan B.
The aircraft is already configured for its original mission. Skis, golf bags and oversized luggage frequently do not fit — confirm this before booking, not at the terminal.
Most empty legs surface 24 to 72 hours before departure and are gone within hours. Refreshing a page is not a strategy; an alert is.
When a private jet finishes a charter flight, it often needs to fly empty to its next mission or home base. Rather than flying without passengers, operators offer these empty-leg repositioning flights at heavily reduced rates — typically 50–75% below a comparable on-demand charter. You get the same certified aircraft, professional crew and VIP terminal access; the trade-off is a fixed route and departure window that cannot always be moved.
Empty legs work best when your dates and airports are flexible: London–Nice, Paris–Ibiza, Geneva–London and similar European corridors appear often as aircraft reposition between leisure and business peaks. Set an alert for your preferred city pair, compare live offers against a full charter quote on our pricing guide, and book in minutes when a matching one-way deal appears. Availability changes daily — what you see on this page is live inventory, not a static catalogue.
Paris
Le Bourget
Geneva
Cointrin
Regular charter price
€12,500
Empty Leg price
€4,500
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Midsize
€4,600
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Total flight price
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Total flight price
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€4,600
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Midsize
€3,400
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€4,080
Total flight price
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€2,300
Total flight price
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Midsize
€2,300
Total flight price
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Cessna Citation V
Midsize
€3,220
Total flight price
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Midsize
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Total flight price
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Midsize
€1,380
Total flight price
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Midsize
€3,220
Total flight price
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€2,300
Total flight price
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Midsize
€4,600
Total flight price
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€1,380
Total flight price
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Total flight price
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