Author

Radu Balas

Radu built Empty Leg List and writes its guides. This page is who he is, so the byline on those guides leads somewhere.

Founder, Empty Leg List, published by Publishing Office SRL, Romania.

What he does here

Radu built Empty Leg List and writes the guides on it. The site collects empty leg flights as charter operators publish them, three times a day, and puts them in one searchable index. It is a listing service: it is not a broker, it is not an operator, it takes no commission, and enquiries go to the operator who confirms availability and the final price.

The guides are written from that record rather than from the industry's usual figures. Where a number appears in a guide it comes from flights the site has actually seen, and the sample size is printed next to it. Where there is no number, the guide says so.

Background

More than a decade in and around aviation. Alongside Empty Leg List he runs The Flying Engineer, a directory of the industry that lists more than 3,000 companies across 56 countries.

That is where the habit behind this site comes from. Empty Leg List has kept a record of every empty leg it has seen since 30 July 2026, including the ones that were listed and then went, and the guides are written from that record rather than from what the market says about itself.

Contact

WhatsApp +40 733 688 360, or through the contact page. For operators, the terms are on the operator page: free to list, no fee, no commission, no contract.

Guides by this author

How much does an empty leg private jet cost?The operator's price divided by the seats they listed, across 219 flights. Median seat 622 euros, cheapest 433. Empty legs and emissions: what can honestly be saidBuying an empty leg does not add a flight. It is also not zero emissions. The claims that hold up, and the ones that do not. What is an empty leg flight?The meaning of empty leg in plain words, how the flight comes to exist, what it costs and the three catches, with our own numbers behind each. Deadhead flights, and how to find oneDeadhead and empty leg are the same flight under two names. Here is what the word means, why the flight exists, and where to find one. One way private jet flights, and why the cheap ones never come backEmpty legs are cheap because they are one way. We counted how often a return exists, and it is not often. What to do about it. How to find empty leg flights, and how to book oneWhere the flights are published, how to search them in one place, what a good empty leg website should show you, and what booking actually involves. Empty leg charter flights: how chartering an empty leg worksWhat is different between an empty leg charter and a full charter, who you are dealing with, what you are quoted for, and what the flights cost on our board. The empty leg glossaryEmpty leg, deadhead, open leg, positioning flight, on enquiry, per seat. Twelve words, one page, no marketing.