3,812 empty private jet legs were listed on transatlantic routes in a year, as recorded. One corridor towered over the rest.

Updated September 30, 2026: counts now exclude exact duplicate copies of the same listing and deleted, withdrawn or cancelled listings, and cover departures in the 12 months to September 28, 2026. An earlier version counted duplicate copies, which overstated the totals and ranked Las Vegas to Farnborough as the fourth-busiest pair, a pair with one unique leg. The figures below reflect that correction. The Methodology also discloses an airport-code issue in one listing source.

Twelve months of SkyAccess marketplace data reveal 3,812 unique empty leg listings recorded on transatlantic routes, flowing in both directions, led by a single New York-London corridor, with Europe-to-North America listings peaking in June 2026.

• 3,812 unique empty legs on routes recorded as transatlantic, listed on the SkyAccess marketplace in the 12 months to September 28, 2026
• 1,741 listed North America to Europe; 2,071 listed Europe to North America, a 45.7 to 54.3 percent split
• 435 legs connected Teterboro, White Plains and Newark to Luton, Farnborough and London, the busiest corridor by a wide margin
• 77 legs linked Miami to Luton, the busiest city pair outside the New York area
• 419 legs listed as Europe to North America had 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 are offered as empty legs.

Over the 12 months to September 28, 2026, 3,812 unique empty legs recorded as flying between North America and Europe appeared on the SkyAccess marketplace. The directional balance is itself a finding: 1,741 legs were listed North America to Europe, and 2,071 were listed Europe to North America, a 45.7 percent to 54.3 percent split. Repositioning demand is not a one-way phenomenon. Aircraft flow toward Europe and back toward America across the year, with the Europe-to-North America direction carrying somewhat more.

These figures count listings on the SkyAccess marketplace, not total transatlantic private jet traffic. The full accounting of what that means, and does not mean, is in the Methodology section below, including an airport-code issue in one listing source: some of its legs counted here most likely flew within Europe.

New York to London is the transatlantic highway

No corridor comes close to New York-London. Folding the New York area’s three busiest airports for this corridor (Teterboro, White Plains and Newark) together with Luton, Farnborough and the airports grouped as London under the table below (among them Stansted and Biggin Hill) yields 435 legs across nine city pairs, or 11.4 percent of all legs recorded as transatlantic in the window. Other New York area airports, led by JFK (11 legs) and Morristown (8), add smaller numbers and are not folded in. The 435 is more than two and a half times the next-busiest destination from those three airports, Paris Le Bourget, at 167 legs.

The three busiest city pairs all have Teterboro at the North American end: Teterboro-Luton at 174 legs, Teterboro-Paris Le Bourget at 138, and Teterboro-Farnborough at 96. Luton and Farnborough both serve London, so two of the top three pairs are, functionally, the same city pair listed twice.

Rank	Route	Legs
1	Teterboro-Luton	174
2	Teterboro-Paris Le Bourget	138
3	Teterboro-Farnborough	96
4	Miami-Luton	77
5	Teterboro-London	72
6	Miami-Paris Le Bourget	66
7	Teterboro-Milan Linate	59
8	Teterboro-Geneva	51
9	Teterboro-Nice	44
10	Teterboro-Madrid	36
11	White Plains-Farnborough	35
12	Teterboro-Lisbon	29
13	Teterboro-Munich	28
14	Teterboro-Zurich	26
15	White Plains-Luton	24
16	White Plains-Paris Le Bourget	23
17	Miami-London	20
18	Van Nuys-London	19
19	Miami-Farnborough	18
19	Miami-Madrid	18

Each pair combines both directions. London covers Stansted, Biggin Hill, Northolt, Heathrow, Gatwick and London City; Luton and Farnborough are listed separately. Miami covers Miami-Opa Locka Executive and Miami International.

The second gateway: Miami, and Europe beyond London

Outside the New York area, the strongest gateway is Miami. Miami-Luton, at 77 legs, is the fourth-busiest transatlantic city pair and the busiest without a New York field, and Miami-Paris Le Bourget ranks sixth at 66. No other North American city outside the New York area reaches the top 10, and Miami appears in 5 of the top 20 pairs. Van Nuys-London, at 19 legs, is the only West Coast pair in the top 20. 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 European side of the network also reaches beyond London and Paris. Teterboro alone connects to Milan Linate (59 legs), Geneva (51), Nice (44), Madrid (36), Lisbon (29), Munich (28), and Zurich (26). Add Miami-Madrid at 18, and the picture is a continental web anchored in the New York area: Teterboro appears as an endpoint in 11 of the top 20 pairs.

Europe-to-North America listings peaked in June 2026

The recorded Europe-to-North America series rose from 91 legs in October 2025 to 179 in February 2026, dipped to 153 in March, then climbed through spring to a June 2026 peak of 419, the highest month in the window and 143 legs above May’s 276. As recorded, 20.2 percent of the year’s Europe-to-North America legs were listed with June departures. Some of June’s legs carry the airport-code issue described in the Methodology. On either estimate given there, the share of legs that actually crossed the Atlantic would be somewhat lower, but June would still be the busiest month.

Read the size of that peak with care. One listing source that contributed no transatlantic legs in this window before May 2026 accounts for 190 of June’s 419 Europe-to-North America legs. Without it, May (260) would edge out June (229), although April, May and June would still be the three busiest months. Counting every source, July then falls to 130 and August to 82; the same source supplies 76 and 46 of those, so without it July would have 54 legs and August 36. That source is also the one with the airport-code issue described in the Methodology, so the figures without it contain none of the affected legs. September 2026 counts departures through September 28 only.

Month	Europe-to-North America legs listed
September 2025*	13
October 2025	91
November 2025	134
December 2025	165
January 2026	170
February 2026	179
March 2026	153
April 2026	226
May 2026	276
June 2026	419
July 2026	130
August 2026	82
September 2026*	33

*Partial months: September 2025 covers departures on September 29 and 30 only, and September 2026 covers departures through September 28.

What this means if you want a transatlantic empty leg

The data points to three practical rules. First, search the corridor, not the city name. In the ranking above, the London grouping leaves out Luton and Farnborough, yet those two airports sit in two of the three busiest pairs, Teterboro-Luton and Teterboro-Farnborough. For Paris, include Le Bourget, and for New York, cover Teterboro, White Plains and Newark at a minimum. Second, if you are flying Europe to America, watch late spring: April, May and June were the three busiest months for that direction in this window, whether or not the listing source described above is counted. 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, measured on September 29, 2026 from the production database for departures in the 12 months to September 28, 2026 (September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2026, UTC), all of them past departures. A leg is identified by its departure airport, arrival airport, departure time, aircraft tail number and aircraft model: exact duplicate copies of a listing are removed, and deleted, withdrawn or cancelled listings are excluded. Copies of the same leg recorded by two sources with different departure times are not merged. Transatlantic means between North America (US and Canada) and Europe as recorded in the airport database, which places Cyprus, most of the Canary Islands and most of Turkey outside Europe; legs to or from Iceland are excluded. These figures count marketplace listings, not total transatlantic private jet traffic; listing volume depends on which listing sources feed the marketplace, so this report makes no claims about market growth over time.

Airport-code issue in one listing source: the listing source described above, which contributed no transatlantic legs in this window before May 2026, appears to record some airports outside North America under a similar-looking US airport code; for almost all of the affected legs, that airport is in Europe. For example, legs that most likely involve Prague (airport code PRG) are recorded at KPRG, Edgar County Airport in Paris, Illinois, so what is most likely a flight within Europe is counted here as transatlantic. Depending on how strictly that signature is defined, we measured between 214 and 323 of the 3,812 legs (5.6 to 8.5 percent) with it, all departing June to September 2026. These legs are counted as recorded, not removed, so the true transatlantic total is somewhat lower than 3,812. None of them has its North American end at Teterboro, White Plains, Newark, JFK, Morristown, Miami or Van Nuys, so the city pair table, the New York-London corridor and the Paris Le Bourget comparison contain none of them. On either estimate, June 2026 would still be the busiest Europe-to-North America month, and Europe to North America would still be the larger direction.

• Annual total and split: 1,741 North America-to-Europe legs + 2,071 Europe-to-North America legs = 3,812. Shares: 1,741 / 3,812 = 45.7 percent; 2,071 / 3,812 = 54.3 percent.
• City pairs: each pair combines both directions and groups airports by the municipality recorded in the airport database, as described under the table. Miami-Farnborough and Miami-Madrid share 19th place, and four pairs tie for 21st with 16 legs each, so the table stops at 20.
• New York-London fold: Teterboro, White Plains and Newark are the three New York area airports with the most legs to Luton, Farnborough and London (JFK, with 11, and Morristown, with 8, are next). Teterboro-Luton (174) + Teterboro-Farnborough (96) + Teterboro-London (72) + White Plains-Farnborough (35) + White Plains-Luton (24) + White Plains-London (11) + Newark-Luton (15) + Newark-London (7) + Newark-Farnborough (1) = 435 legs. Corridor share: 435 / 3,812 = 11.4 percent.
• Corridor comparison: the same three airports to Paris Le Bourget: Teterboro (138) + White Plains (23) + Newark (6) = 167 legs, the next-busiest destination from those airports. 435 / 167 = 2.6, so the London corridor carries more than two and a half times the volume.
• Teterboro count: Teterboro appears in 11 of the top 20 pairs (Luton, Paris Le Bourget, Farnborough, London, Milan Linate, Geneva, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Munich, Zurich).
• June peak: 419 in June 2026 versus 276 in May 2026 = 143 more legs. June share of the direction’s total as recorded: 419 / 2,071 = 20.2 percent; with the legs affected by the airport-code issue above set aside, it would be somewhat lower on either estimate. September 2025 (13) covers September 29 and 30 only; September 2026 (33) covers departures through September 28.
• Listing source effect: one listing source contributed no transatlantic legs in this window before May 2026. It accounts for 16 of May’s 276 and 190 of June’s 419 Europe-to-North America legs, so without it May would have 260 legs and June 229, with April (226) third; every other month would have 179 or fewer.
• Eastbound monthly series not charted: the North America-to-Europe series peaks in October 2025 at 304 legs, 96 of them listed by a single operator, Vista US, which listed no more than 33 eastbound legs in any other month of the window. Without Vista US, October 2025 would still be the busiest eastbound month, at 208 legs, so one operator magnifies that peak rather than creating it; because a single operator weighs so heavily on it, the series is not charted in this report.

SkyAccess is a live private jet and empty leg marketplace at skyaccess.com, connecting travelers with 900+ FAA Part 135 (and international equivalent) certified charter operators and 5,000+ live empty leg flights. This report is part of SkyAccess Data & Research. For how far ahead of departure these legs get listed, see the empty leg lead-time data story.