{
  "name": "SkyAccess London Empty Leg Index: October 2026",
  "description": "15,589 London empty legs in 12 months: Luton, Farnborough and Biggin Hill lead, and Paris Le Bourget is the top counterpart. SkyAccess data, October 2026. Tables: London empty legs by airport; The 15 most common counterparts for London empty legs.",
  "url": "https://skyaccess.com/blog/london-empty-leg-index-october-2026",
  "creator": {
    "name": "SkyAccess",
    "url": "https://skyaccess.com"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-10-02T17:44:50",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-12T08:00:48",
  "citation": "SkyAccess. (2026). London Empty Leg Index: October 2026. Retrieved from https://skyaccess.com/blog/london-empty-leg-index-october-2026",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "temporalCoverage": "2025-10-01/2026-10-01",
  "distribution": {
    "json": "https://skyaccess.com/data/london-empty-leg-index-october-2026.json",
    "csv": "https://skyaccess.com/data/london-empty-leg-index-october-2026.csv"
  },
  "methodology": "London covers eight airports: Luton, Farnborough, Biggin Hill, Stansted, Northolt, City, Heathrow and Gatwick. 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. Counterparts are counted per airport, so Paris here is Le Bourget only. 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.",
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "London empty legs by airport",
      "columns": [
        "Airport",
        "ICAO",
        "IATA",
        "Unique empty legs"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Airport": "London Luton",
          "ICAO": "EGGW",
          "IATA": "LTN",
          "Unique empty legs": 4487
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Farnborough",
          "ICAO": "EGLF",
          "IATA": "FAB",
          "Unique empty legs": 4438
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London Biggin Hill",
          "ICAO": "EGKB",
          "IATA": "BQH",
          "Unique empty legs": 4308
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London Stansted",
          "ICAO": "EGSS",
          "IATA": "STN",
          "Unique empty legs": 928
        },
        {
          "Airport": "RAF Northolt",
          "ICAO": "EGWU",
          "IATA": "NHT",
          "Unique empty legs": 795
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London City",
          "ICAO": "EGLC",
          "IATA": "LCY",
          "Unique empty legs": 473
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London Heathrow",
          "ICAO": "EGLL",
          "IATA": "LHR",
          "Unique empty legs": 133
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London Gatwick",
          "ICAO": "EGKK",
          "IATA": "LGW",
          "Unique empty legs": 27
        },
        {
          "Airport": "London total",
          "ICAO": "",
          "IATA": "",
          "Unique empty legs": 15589
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The 15 most common counterparts for London empty legs",
      "columns": [
        "Rank",
        "Counterpart",
        "Airport",
        "Country",
        "Unique empty legs"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Rank": 1,
          "Counterpart": "Paris",
          "Airport": "Le Bourget (LBG)",
          "Country": "France",
          "Unique empty legs": 1662
        },
        {
          "Rank": 2,
          "Counterpart": "Geneva",
          "Airport": "Geneva (GVA)",
          "Country": "Switzerland",
          "Unique empty legs": 621
        },
        {
          "Rank": 3,
          "Counterpart": "Nice",
          "Airport": "Nice Cote d’Azur (NCE)",
          "Country": "France",
          "Unique empty legs": 477
        },
        {
          "Rank": 4,
          "Counterpart": "Amsterdam",
          "Airport": "Schiphol (AMS)",
          "Country": "Netherlands",
          "Unique empty legs": 406
        },
        {
          "Rank": 5,
          "Counterpart": "Zurich",
          "Airport": "Zurich (ZRH)",
          "Country": "Switzerland",
          "Unique empty legs": 371
        },
        {
          "Rank": 6,
          "Counterpart": "New York area",
          "Airport": "Teterboro (TEB)",
          "Country": "United States",
          "Unique empty legs": 347
        },
        {
          "Rank": 7,
          "Counterpart": "Prague",
          "Airport": "Vaclav Havel (PRG)",
          "Country": "Czech Republic",
          "Unique empty legs": 262
        },
        {
          "Rank": 8,
          "Counterpart": "Malaga",
          "Airport": "Malaga Costa del Sol (AGP)",
          "Country": "Spain",
          "Unique empty legs": 260
        },
        {
          "Rank": 9,
          "Counterpart": "Milan",
          "Airport": "Linate (LIN)",
          "Country": "Italy",
          "Unique empty legs": 256
        },
        {
          "Rank": 10,
          "Counterpart": "Palma de Mallorca",
          "Airport": "Palma (PMI)",
          "Country": "Spain",
          "Unique empty legs": 220
        },
        {
          "Rank": 11,
          "Counterpart": "Dublin",
          "Airport": "Dublin (DUB)",
          "Country": "Ireland",
          "Unique empty legs": 219
        },
        {
          "Rank": 12,
          "Counterpart": "Sion",
          "Airport": "Sion (SIR)",
          "Country": "Switzerland",
          "Unique empty legs": 197
        },
        {
          "Rank": 13,
          "Counterpart": "Madrid",
          "Airport": "Adolfo Suarez Madrid Barajas (MAD)",
          "Country": "Spain",
          "Unique empty legs": 192
        },
        {
          "Rank": 14,
          "Counterpart": "Antwerp",
          "Airport": "Antwerp (ANR)",
          "Country": "Belgium",
          "Unique empty legs": 175
        },
        {
          "Rank": 15,
          "Counterpart": "Rotterdam",
          "Airport": "Rotterdam The Hague (RTM)",
          "Country": "Netherlands",
          "Unique empty legs": 173
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}