{
  "name": "SkyAccess Geneva and Switzerland Empty Leg Index: October 2026",
  "description": "Geneva leads Switzerland with 7,052 of 18,981 private jet empty legs; Paris, London and Nice are its top counterparts. SkyAccess data, October 2026. Tables: Swiss empty legs by airport; Where Geneva empty legs go: the top 10 counterparts; Zurich’s top 5 counterparts.",
  "url": "https://skyaccess.com/blog/switzerland-empty-leg-index-october-2026",
  "creator": {
    "name": "SkyAccess",
    "url": "https://skyaccess.com"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-10-02T17:45:29",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-12T10:30:36",
  "citation": "SkyAccess. (2026). Geneva and Switzerland Empty Leg Index: October 2026. Retrieved from https://skyaccess.com/blog/switzerland-empty-leg-index-october-2026",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "temporalCoverage": "2025-10-02/2026-10-02",
  "distribution": {
    "json": "https://skyaccess.com/data/switzerland-empty-leg-index-october-2026.json",
    "csv": "https://skyaccess.com/data/switzerland-empty-leg-index-october-2026.csv"
  },
  "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.",
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Swiss empty legs by airport",
      "columns": [
        "Airport",
        "Serves",
        "ICAO / IATA",
        "Unique empty legs"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Airport": "Geneva",
          "Serves": "Geneva, Lake Geneva, Chamonix",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSGG / GVA",
          "Unique empty legs": 7052
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Zurich",
          "Serves": "Zurich",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZH / ZRH",
          "Unique empty legs": 4813
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Sion",
          "Serves": "Verbier, Crans-Montana, Zermatt",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSGS / SIR",
          "Unique empty legs": 1751
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Samedan",
          "Serves": "St. Moritz",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZS / SMV",
          "Unique empty legs": 1594
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Basel-Mulhouse (in France)",
          "Serves": "Basel",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LFSB / BSL",
          "Unique empty legs": 925
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Bern",
          "Serves": "Bern",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZB / BRN",
          "Unique empty legs": 824
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Lausanne-Blecherette",
          "Serves": "Lausanne",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSGL",
          "Unique empty legs": 725
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Saanen",
          "Serves": "Gstaad",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSGK",
          "Unique empty legs": 711
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Lugano",
          "Serves": "Lugano",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZA / LUG",
          "Unique empty legs": 554
        },
        {
          "Airport": "St. Gallen-Altenrhein",
          "Serves": "St. Gallen",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZR / ACH",
          "Unique empty legs": 523
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Payerne",
          "Serves": "Payerne",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSMP",
          "Unique empty legs": 381
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Buochs",
          "Serves": "Lucerne",
          "ICAO / IATA": "LSZC / BXO",
          "Unique empty legs": 210
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Grenchen, Sankt Stephan, Locarno, Les Eplatures, Mollis, Dubendorf, Emmen",
          "Serves": "Smaller airfields",
          "ICAO / IATA": "",
          "Unique empty legs": "58, 19, 17, 16, 15, 7, 6"
        },
        {
          "Airport": "Switzerland total (Swiss airports)",
          "Serves": "",
          "ICAO / IATA": "",
          "Unique empty legs": 18981
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Where Geneva empty legs go: the top 10 counterparts",
      "columns": [
        "Rank",
        "Counterpart",
        "Airports",
        "Unique empty legs"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Rank": 1,
          "Counterpart": "Paris",
          "Airports": "Le Bourget (LBG), Charles de Gaulle (CDG)",
          "Unique empty legs": 781
        },
        {
          "Rank": 2,
          "Counterpart": "London",
          "Airports": "Luton, Farnborough, Biggin Hill, Stansted, Northolt, City, Heathrow, Gatwick",
          "Unique empty legs": 614
        },
        {
          "Rank": 3,
          "Counterpart": "Nice",
          "Airports": "Nice Cote d’Azur (NCE)",
          "Unique empty legs": 546
        },
        {
          "Rank": 4,
          "Counterpart": "Milan",
          "Airports": "Linate (LIN), Malpensa (MXP)",
          "Unique empty legs": 346
        },
        {
          "Rank": 5,
          "Counterpart": "Cannes",
          "Airports": "Cannes-Mandelieu (CEQ)",
          "Unique empty legs": 143
        },
        {
          "Rank": 6,
          "Counterpart": "Madrid",
          "Airports": "Barajas (MAD), Cuatro Vientos",
          "Unique empty legs": 112
        },
        {
          "Rank": 7,
          "Counterpart": "Rome",
          "Airports": "Ciampino (CIA), Fiumicino (FCO), Urbe",
          "Unique empty legs": 103
        },
        {
          "Rank": 8,
          "Counterpart": "Saint-Tropez",
          "Airports": "La Mole (LTT)",
          "Unique empty legs": 96
        },
        {
          "Rank": 9,
          "Counterpart": "Malaga",
          "Airports": "Malaga Costa del Sol (AGP)",
          "Unique empty legs": 87
        },
        {
          "Rank": "10=",
          "Counterpart": "Palma de Mallorca",
          "Airports": "Palma (PMI)",
          "Unique empty legs": 80
        },
        {
          "Rank": "10=",
          "Counterpart": "Vienna",
          "Airports": "Vienna (VIE)",
          "Unique empty legs": 80
        },
        {
          "Rank": "10=",
          "Counterpart": "Munich",
          "Airports": "Munich (MUC)",
          "Unique empty legs": 80
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Zurich’s top 5 counterparts",
      "columns": [
        "Rank",
        "Counterpart",
        "Unique empty legs"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Rank": 1,
          "Counterpart": "London",
          "Unique empty legs": 370
        },
        {
          "Rank": 2,
          "Counterpart": "Paris",
          "Unique empty legs": 286
        },
        {
          "Rank": 3,
          "Counterpart": "Nice",
          "Unique empty legs": 276
        },
        {
          "Rank": 4,
          "Counterpart": "Milan",
          "Unique empty legs": 218
        },
        {
          "Rank": 5,
          "Counterpart": "Munich",
          "Unique empty legs": 111
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}