Your Guide to Empty leg

What is an empty leg flight and what does it mean to you?

Aviation lingo can seem like a foreign language, even to the most well-traveled jetsetters.

Empty leg flights have become increasingly popular in the world of private air travel especially nowadays with the PANDAMIC.

But what is an empty leg flight and what does it mean to you?

An empty leg flight is a plane that is flying empty to reposition or return for an already booked (chartered) trip. Although aircraft operators try to accommodate schedules to avoid inefficiency, a whopping 30% of all private aircraft fly empty, creating substantial inventory of empty leg flights.

Here are two scenarios of empty leg flights:

Repositioning empty leg:

Let’s say someone chartered a private jet to fly from Amman to Dubai but the jet is currently parked in Lebanon. That private jet needs to fly from Lebanon to Amman – and would fly empty.

Return empty leg:

Imagine someone booked a one-way private jet trip from Amman to London. That private jet needs to return back to Amman – and would fly empty.

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