Geneva and Switzerland Empty Leg Index: October 2026

Geneva is Switzerland’s busiest airport for private jet empty legs: 7,052 of the 18,981 unique empty legs that SkyAccess listed at Swiss airports touched Geneva, ahead of Zurich (4,813), Sion (1,751) and Samedan (1,594). Geneva’s top counterpart is Paris (781 legs), followed by London (614) and Nice (546).

Method: each leg is counted once, both directions of a route are combined, and the figures are empty legs listed on the SkyAccess marketplace, not flown flights. Window: departures from 2 October 2025 to 2 October 2026 plus currently listed future flights, snapshot taken 2 October 2026.

Swiss empty legs by airport

Legs touching each airport. A leg between two Swiss airports counts at both, so the column adds up to more than the Switzerland total.

Airport	Serves	ICAO / IATA	Unique empty legs
Geneva	Geneva, Lake Geneva, Chamonix	LSGG / GVA	7,052
Zurich	Zurich	LSZH / ZRH	4,813
Sion	Verbier, Crans-Montana, Zermatt	LSGS / SIR	1,751
Samedan	St. Moritz	LSZS / SMV	1,594
Basel-Mulhouse (in France)	Basel	LFSB / BSL	925
Bern	Bern	LSZB / BRN	824
Lausanne-Blecherette	Lausanne	LSGL	725
Saanen	Gstaad	LSGK	711
Lugano	Lugano	LSZA / LUG	554
St. Gallen-Altenrhein	St. Gallen	LSZR / ACH	523
Payerne	Payerne	LSMP	381
Buochs	Lucerne	LSZC / BXO	210
Grenchen, Sankt Stephan, Locarno, Les Eplatures, Mollis, Dubendorf, Emmen	Smaller airfields		58, 19, 17, 16, 15, 7, 6
Switzerland total (Swiss airports)			18,981

Where Geneva empty legs go: the top 10 counterparts

Counterpart cities, both directions combined. Three cities tie at tenth place.

Rank	Counterpart	Airports	Unique empty legs
1	Paris	Le Bourget (LBG), Charles de Gaulle (CDG)	781
2	London	Luton, Farnborough, Biggin Hill, Stansted, Northolt, City, Heathrow, Gatwick	614
3	Nice	Nice Cote d’Azur (NCE)	546
4	Milan	Linate (LIN), Malpensa (MXP)	346
5	Cannes	Cannes-Mandelieu (CEQ)	143
6	Madrid	Barajas (MAD), Cuatro Vientos	112
7	Rome	Ciampino (CIA), Fiumicino (FCO), Urbe	103
8	Saint-Tropez	La Mole (LTT)	96
9	Malaga	Malaga Costa del Sol (AGP)	87
10=	Palma de Mallorca	Palma (PMI)	80
10=	Vienna	Vienna (VIE)	80
10=	Munich	Munich (MUC)	80

Zurich’s top 5 counterparts

Rank	Counterpart	Unique empty legs
1	London	370
2	Paris	286
3	Nice	276
4	Milan	218
5	Munich	111

For a departures-only view of Geneva, see empty leg flights from Geneva, which counts a different set of legs (departures between regions over its own window).

Methodology

Switzerland means every airport located in Switzerland. Basel-Mulhouse (EuroAirport, LFSB) is on French soil, so it appears as Basel in the airport table but is not in the Switzerland total; including it, the total is 19,701. Counterpart cities group airports the way a traveler would search: Paris is Le Bourget, Charles de Gaulle and Orly, London is the eight London airports, and Milan is Linate and Malpensa. Each unique leg is counted once across operator feeds (same origin, destination, departure time, aircraft registration and model), deleted, cancelled and never-public listings are excluded, and both directions are combined. Every figure on this page was checked with a second, independent query. The counts are listed empty legs, not flown flights. Each regional edition uses its own snapshot date, so a corridor shared with another edition can differ by a few legs. For the global ranking, see the Empty Leg Index (September 2026 edition) and the October 2026 edition.

Frequently asked questions

Which Swiss airport has the most private jet empty legs?

Geneva (LSGG, GVA). 7,052 of the 18,981 unique empty legs that SkyAccess listed at Swiss airports touched Geneva, ahead of Zurich (4,813), Sion (1,751) and Samedan (1,594), the airport for St. Moritz.

Where do Geneva empty leg flights go?

Paris is the top Geneva counterpart with 781 legs (Le Bourget and Charles de Gaulle), followed by London (614, all eight London airports), Nice (546), Milan (346) and Cannes (143). Both directions are combined.

How many private jet empty legs are there in Switzerland?

SkyAccess listed 18,981 unique empty leg flights touching a Swiss airport between 2 October 2025 and 2 October 2026, plus currently listed future flights. Only 295 of them connected two Swiss airports; the rest were international.

Is Basel-Mulhouse included in the Swiss figures?

Basel-Mulhouse (EuroAirport, BSL) sits on French soil, so it is shown separately as Basel with 925 empty legs and is not in the 18,981 Switzerland total. Including it, the total is 19,701.

How much cheaper is a Geneva empty leg than a full charter?

Empty legs on SkyAccess are typically priced 25 to 75% below a comparable full charter on the same route. The price is for the whole aircraft, and the saving depends on aircraft category, corridor and how close to departure the leg is booked.

How is the Switzerland Empty Leg Index counted?

Each unique leg is counted once, even when it appears in several operator feeds, both directions are combined, and deleted, cancelled and never-public listings are excluded. The figures are empty legs listed on the SkyAccess marketplace, not flown flights.

How to cite this index

Suggested citation: SkyAccess Switzerland Empty Leg Index, October 2026 edition. SkyAccess. https://skyaccess.com/blog/switzerland-empty-leg-index-october-2026

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