Nearly 5,000 empty private jet legs were listed across the Atlantic in a year. One corridor towered over the rest.

Twelve months of SkyAccess marketplace data reveal 4,891 transatlantic empty leg listings split almost evenly by direction, dominated by a single New York-London corridor and peaking sharply in June.

• 4,891 transatlantic empty leg listings on the SkyAccess marketplace in the trailing 12 months
• 2,370 listed North America to Europe; 2,521 listed Europe to North America, a near-even split
• 662 legs connected the New York metro area to the London area, the busiest corridor by a wide margin
• 126 legs linked Las Vegas to Farnborough, the fourth-busiest city pair
• 422 Europe-to-North America legs were listed with June 2026 departures, the monthly peak

An ocean crossed empty, in both directions

Every private jet that carries passengers across the Atlantic has to get to its starting point somehow, and it eventually has to come home. Those repositioning flights, published by operators as empty legs, form a shadow network over the ocean that is largely invisible to the flying public.

Over the trailing 12 months, 4,891 empty leg listings between North America and Europe appeared on the SkyAccess marketplace. The directional balance is itself a finding: 2,370 legs were listed North America to Europe, and 2,521 were listed Europe to North America, a 48.5 percent to 51.5 percent split. Repositioning demand is not a one-way phenomenon. Aircraft flow toward Europe and back toward America in nearly equal measure across the year.

These figures count listings that operators published on the marketplace, not total transatlantic private jet traffic. The full accounting of what that means, and does not mean, is in the Methodology section below.

New York to London is the transatlantic highway

No corridor comes close to New York-London. Folding the New York metro area’s business aviation fields (Teterboro, White Plains, and Newark) together with the London area’s (Luton, Farnborough, and London) yields 662 legs across six airport pairs, or 13.5 percent of every transatlantic empty leg listed on the marketplace. That is more than three times the next-closest metro corridor among the top 25 pairs, New York to Paris Le Bourget, at 210 legs.

The two busiest individual routes on the marketplace both start at Teterboro, the New York area’s premier business aviation field: Teterboro-Luton at 247 legs and Teterboro-Farnborough at 236. Luton and Farnborough are London-area business aviation airports, which means the top of the transatlantic table is, functionally, the same city pair listed twice.

Rank	Route	Legs
1	Teterboro-Luton	247
2	Teterboro-Farnborough	236
3	Teterboro-Paris Le Bourget	170
4	Las Vegas-Farnborough	126
5	Miami-Luton	105
6	Teterboro-London	84
7	Miami-Paris Le Bourget	79
8	Teterboro-Milan Linate	67
9	Teterboro-Geneva	66
10	Teterboro-Nice	50
11	Teterboro-Madrid	41
12	White Plains-Paris Le Bourget	40
13	White Plains-Farnborough	39
14	Boston-Farnborough	37
15	Teterboro-Lisbon	37
16	Van Nuys-London	34
17	Teterboro-Zurich	34
18	Teterboro-Frankfurt	33
19	Newark-Luton	30
20	White Plains-Milan	29
21	Teterboro-Munich	28
22	White Plains-Luton	26
23	Miami-Farnborough	24
24	Miami-Madrid	24
25	Los Angeles-London	23

The surprises: Las Vegas, and Europe beyond London

The most unexpected route on the board is Las Vegas-Farnborough, at 126 legs, the fourth-busiest transatlantic city pair. It outranks Miami-Luton at 105 and more than doubles the combined total of the two Los Angeles-area routes in the top 25, Van Nuys-London at 34 and Los Angeles-London at 23. For a city with no reputation as a transatlantic gateway, Las Vegas generated a strikingly steady flow of empty metal to a single London-area field. Where empty legs originate inside the US is a story of its own; our state-by-state ranking of empty leg activity maps that geography in detail.

The other surprise is how far the European side of the network spreads beyond London and Paris. Teterboro alone connects to Milan Linate (67 legs), Geneva (66), Nice (50), Madrid (41), Lisbon (37), Zurich (34), Frankfurt (33), and Munich (28). Add White Plains-Milan at 29 and Miami-Madrid at 24, and the picture is a continental web anchored in the New York area: Teterboro appears as an endpoint in 12 of the top 25 pairs.

June is when the jets come home

The Europe-to-North America series shows a clear seasonal rhythm. Listings build through winter, reaching 247 in January and 292 in February, dip in March, then climb through spring to a June 2026 peak of 422, the highest month in the window and 107 listings above May’s 315. Roughly one in six of the year’s Europe-to-North America legs were listed with June departures alone.

The timing matches the mechanics of the fleet: aircraft that positioned to Europe for the early-summer season generate return legs as they reposition back toward the US, and operators publish those crossings as empty legs. July then falls to 144, and August 2026 stood at 62 with the month still in progress at the time of the data pull.

Month	Europe-to-North America legs listed
August 2025	9
September 2025	126
October 2025	116
November 2025	168
December 2025	165
January 2026	247
February 2026	292
March 2026	186
April 2026	269
May 2026	315
June 2026	422
July 2026	144
August 2026*	62

*Month in progress at the time of the data pull.

What this means if you want a transatlantic empty leg

The data points to three practical rules. First, search the corridor, not the city. A traveler who searches only “London” misses the two busiest routes on the marketplace, which land at Luton and Farnborough; a “Paris” search should include Le Bourget, and a “New York” search should cover Teterboro, White Plains, and Newark. Second, timing matters most for the Europe-to-America direction: listings concentrated in late spring and peaked in June, with a secondary winter build in January and February. Third, flexibility on the European endpoint widens the field considerably, since meaningful volume flowed through Milan, Geneva, Nice, Lisbon, and Madrid, not just London and Paris. For a current read on where inventory sits right now, the monthly SkyAccess Empty Leg Index tracks the live market.

Methodology

This analysis is based on empty leg listings published on the SkyAccess marketplace, pulled on August 27, 2026 from the production database. The dataset includes listings that were not deleted (deletedat IS NULL) with departure dates in the trailing 12 months, past legs only, between North America (US and Canada) and Europe. These figures count marketplace listings, not total transatlantic private jet traffic; listing volume reflects what operators publish on the marketplace. Because marketplace coverage varies by region and grew over the window, this report makes no year-over-year market-growth claims.

• Annual total and split: 2,370 North America-to-Europe listings + 2,521 Europe-to-North America listings = 4,891. Shares: 2,370 / 4,891 = 48.5 percent; 2,521 / 4,891 = 51.5 percent.
• New York-London metro fold: Teterboro-Luton (247) + Teterboro-Farnborough (236) + Teterboro-London (84) + White Plains-Farnborough (39) + White Plains-Luton (26) + Newark-Luton (30) = 662 legs. Corridor share: 662 / 4,891 = 13.5 percent.
• Corridor comparison: New York metro to Paris Le Bourget, among the top 25 pairs: Teterboro-Paris Le Bourget (170) + White Plains-Paris Le Bourget (40) = 210 legs. 662 / 210 = 3.2, so the London corridor carries more than three times the volume.
• Las Vegas comparison: Van Nuys-London (34) + Los Angeles-London (23) = 57; Las Vegas-Farnborough (126) is more than double that combined total.
• Teterboro count: Teterboro appears in 12 of the top 25 pairs (Luton, Farnborough, Paris Le Bourget, London, Milan Linate, Geneva, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich).
• June peak: 422 in June 2026 versus 315 in May 2026 = 107 more listings. June share of the direction’s annual total: 422 / 2,521 = 16.7 percent, roughly one in six. August 2026 (62) was in progress at pull time.
• Westbound monthly series excluded: the North America-to-Europe monthly series contains an October 2025 spike of 632 listings, 69 percent of which was driven by two operators’ bulk listing events (Qatar Executive, 270; Vista US, 166). That pattern reflects operator publishing behavior rather than travel seasonality, so the series was excluded from this report.

SkyAccess is a real-time private jet and empty leg marketplace at skyaccess.com, connecting travelers with 900+ certified charter operators and 5,000+ live empty leg flights. This report is part of SkyAccess Data & Research.