Empty Leg Market Data
Original data on the private jet empty leg market, built from listings on SkyAccess, the world's largest empty leg marketplace by listing volume. Every study below is free to cite with attribution and a link.
The Empty Leg Index
Our flagship monthly series. Each edition ranks the busiest private jet repositioning corridors and reports how listed prices moved over the month.
Airport and route coverage
Where empty legs depart and where they fly: rankings by airport and by state, and the long-haul corridors between continents.
- Ranking
Airport Empty Leg Index
The top US departure airports for private jet empty legs, ranked by empty legs listed on the SkyAccess marketplace.
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Every US State Ranked by Empty Leg Activity
Every US state and the District of Columbia ranked by empty leg volume on the SkyAccess marketplace, with the busiest airport named in each.
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Transatlantic Empty Leg Flights
Empty legs listed on routes between North America and Europe: the busiest city pairs in both directions and the months when listings peak.
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Pricing and timing
Empty legs are typically priced 25 to 75% below a comparable full charter. These studies measure what happens to listed prices and timing from there.
- Repricing
Empty Leg Price Movements
How operators reprice empty legs before departure: how often listed prices are cut, how large the cuts are, and where the steepest cuts land, from the SkyAccess public feed tracker.
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When Empty Legs Appear
Lead time from first listing to scheduled departure across the SkyAccess marketplace, with medians by aircraft category and the seasonal window in which lead times tighten.
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The Best Day for Empty Leg Flights
The shape of the week for empty leg departures on the SkyAccess marketplace: which days carry the most listings and which carry the fewest.
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What Planes Fly Empty Legs
The aircraft category mix behind the SkyAccess marketplace: which classes of jet generate empty legs, and in what proportions.
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Live marketplace data
The studies above are snapshots. The marketplace itself lists 5,000+ live empty leg flights from a network of 900+ certified charter operators.
Live empty leg board
Current listings, added throughout the day: route, date, aircraft, and the whole-aircraft price.
Airport directory
ICAO and IATA codes, runways, and live empty legs for large and medium airports worldwide that handle private jets.
Route pages
Popular private jet city pairs, each with live empty legs and charter options.
Public MCP server
How AI assistants and agents connect directly to live marketplace inventory: endpoint, tools, and a quickstart.
Cite this data
All figures are citable with attribution to SkyAccess and a link to the source story. No permission needed. When you quote a figure from one study, name that study and link to it. To cite the collection as a whole, use one of the formats below.
- Journalistic attribution
Source: SkyAccess empty leg marketplace data (https://skyaccess.com/research) - APA (7th edition)
SkyAccess. (2026). SkyAccess Empty Leg Market Data [Data set]. https://skyaccess.com/research
How the data is built
- Counts are empty leg listings published on the SkyAccess marketplace, not FAA operations counts, and every study says so.
- Every study carries its own methodology section: the data window, the arithmetic behind any derived comparison, and what was excluded and why.
- Airport names, codes and other external facts are checked against FAA records before publication.
Read our full methodology standards, citation policy and index of data stories
Need a cut we have not published?
We run custom pulls from the same marketplace data, typically same day: a single route, a state, an airport, or a season. If a figure looks surprising, ask us to walk you through the query behind it.
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