SkyAccess Data & Research: Original Private Aviation Market Data

SkyAccess publishes original data journalism about the private aviation market, built from the marketplace itself: empty leg listings recorded across our network of 900+ certified charter operators. This page is the index of what we publish, how we verify it, and how to use it.

Updated October 2, 2026: the story titles and figures on this page now match the current versions of the linked stories.

What we publish

The Empty Leg Index (monthly; August edition). The busiest private jet repositioning corridors in the United States and internationally, ranked by repositioning legs listed on the marketplace. A new edition publishes at the start of each month.

Every State Ranked by Private Jet Empty Leg Activity, and the Airport That Leads in Each. All 50 states plus the District of Columbia ranked by empty leg volume, with the busiest airport named in each state: 322,814 unique empty legs in the 12 months to September 28, 2026.

3,812 empty private jet legs were listed on transatlantic routes in a year, as recorded. One corridor towered over the rest.. 3,812 unique empty legs listed on transatlantic routes in the 12 months to September 28, 2026, with Teterboro-Luton the busiest city pair (both directions combined) and Europe to North America listings peaking in June 2026.

The Median Empty Leg Appears Just 3 Days Before Takeoff. Lead time from first listing to scheduled departure across a SkyAccess analysis of 414,722 unique empty legs, with aircraft category medians and a December to April winter window in which the monthly median tightens from 3.0 days to 1.6.

1,692 Empty Leg Flights Are Listed for Labor Day Weekend, and the Board Is Up 33 Percent in Four Days. A live holiday-weekend snapshot: departures by day, the top corridors including the Burning Man exodus, and the growth mechanic predicted by our lead-time data.

The Best Day for Empty Leg Flights: Sunday Beats Tuesday by 29%, According to 453,778 Flights. The shape of the week across 453,778 unique empty legs: a Friday crest, a Sunday peak, and a Tuesday floor, consistent across the US-departures cut.

One in Four Empty Legs Is a Midsize Jet: What Actually Flies Empty The aircraft category mix behind the marketplace: which classes of jet generate empty legs, in what proportions, and what that means for what you can book.

The SkyAccess public MCP server How AI assistants and agents connect directly to live marketplace inventory: endpoint, tools, and a 30-second quickstart.

Miami’s Real Private Jet Hub Is Opa-locka: KOPF Handles 7.5x the Empty Legs of MIA. A Florida deep-dive across 91,806 unique empty legs: the twelve busiest airports, the Naples to Opa-locka shuttle, and a March peak at 4.6x the July trough.

Where the Private Jets at President Donald J. Trump International Airport Actually Fly. A single airport data profile of the renamed Palm Beach field (KDJT): volumes, seasonality, destinations, and listed prices.

Our methodology standards

Every figure in a SkyAccess data story follows the same rules.

• Marketplace data, clearly attributed. Counts are empty leg listings published on the SkyAccess marketplace, not FAA operations counts, and every story says so. Where a listing touches two states or two airports, the double counting rule is disclosed.
• No estimates dressed as measurements. We publish counts, corridors, seasonality, and listed price distributions. We do not publish modeled savings percentages or projected market sizes as findings.
• A methodology section in every story, including the arithmetic behind any derived comparison, the data window, and what was excluded and why.
• Independent fact checking before publication, including verification of airport names, codes, and external facts against FAA records at publish time.

Citation policy

All figures are citable with attribution to SkyAccess and a link to the source story. No permission needed. If a figure looks surprising, ask us to walk you through the query behind it: we would rather explain a number than have it used wrong.

Custom data pulls for journalists

Working on a story that needs a specific cut, a single route, a state, an airport, a season? We run custom pulls from the same marketplace data, typically same day. Contact us through skyaccess.com and mention the story you are working on.

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