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One way empty legs between Austin and St Louis, exactly as the operators list them. Prices are the operator's own, not a marked up quote.
Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.
Austin sends 168 departures to 67 destinations in our record and St Louis is sixth of them at six listings, behind Houston at eighteen, Dallas at eleven, Aspen at eight, Teterboro at seven and Fort Worth at seven. Three of the five above it are Texas and the other two are a ski resort and New York, which makes St Louis the first ordinary business destination on Austin's list and the only Midwest one in its top ten.
Every aircraft on this corridor is a Learjet. Three marks of them, a Bombardier Lear 75, a Bombardier Learjet 45 and three Bombardier Learjet 60s, and nothing else. That is the record rather than a gap in it: all six legs name a type, so this is not a table with the aircraft column missing. It is an unusual thing to be able to say about a corridor and it comes from the operator mix, since Jetvia's entire fleet in our record is a single type.
The arrival is Spirit of St Louis (KSUS), not Lambert, on all six legs, and our record holds no Austin to Lambert listings at all. Spirit is the business aviation field about 25 miles west of downtown St Louis, in Chesterfield, and it is a small node on our board: 32 arrivals from seventeen origins and 25 departures to fourteen destinations. Austin is one of its larger sources.
The sector is about 615 nautical miles and the listings put it at one hour 42 to one hour 48. Four of the six carry a published price, and as on several of the Texas corridors the order is inverted: Jet Linx Aviation's eight seat Learjet 45 is USD 8,272, while Jetvia's seven seat Learjet 60 is USD 9,600. More money, one seat fewer, same ground. The USD 8,272 is also worth noticing for not being a round number, which is what an operator's own computed figure looks like rather than a rate card.
Six movements on four dates, 10 September to 9 October 2026, and half of them fall on one day. Jetvia listed three separate Bombardier Learjet 60s, tails N208BH, N600SJ and N600AJ, all for 9 October and all at the same USD 9,600. The other three are single legs: Paradigm Jet Management on 10 and 11 September, consecutive days on the same Lear 75, and Jet Linx on 1 October.
The notice on this corridor splits sharply by operator. All three of the non Jetvia legs first reached us on the morning of the day they departed, with no warning at all: the two Paradigm Lear 75 legs and the Jet Linx Learjet 45. The three Jetvia Learjet 60s were listed 21 to 23 days out. All six have now flown or come off the board, and St Louis back to Austin has no listings at all in our record, so there is no reverse direction to watch. On a corridor where half the legs appear the morning they go, the route alert is the only thing that works.
Approximate corridor between Austin and St Louis. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Spirit of St Louis is the arrival on every leg here and it is the further of the two St Louis fields from downtown, about 25 miles west at Chesterfield, so a listing that says only St Louis is worth confirming. Lambert is closer to the city but appears nowhere on this corridor in our record. On the Austin side, Bergstrom takes all six: Austin Executive is a separate search. Every aircraft listed on this corridor is a Learjet, which is what our record holds and not a statement about what will be available next.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Austin and St Louis, in either direction, since 30 July 2026, whether it is still on the board or not. A leg leaves the board when the operator stops publishing it, and we cannot tell from outside whether it was sold or withdrawn, so these are counts of what was listed, not of what flew.
One bar per calendar month, from the first month in our record to the furthest date an operator has published so far. Grey bars are months already past, gold is this month and the months ahead. A blank month is a month we have no record for, and before August 2026 that means we were not yet recording. The months ahead hold only what operators have published up to now, and most empty legs appear days or weeks before departure, so those bars will keep growing. The shape says how far ahead operators publish, not how busy a month will be.
| Airports flown | Legs recorded | On the board | Priced | Last seen | |
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Each row is a pair of airports as the operator named them, in the direction flown. Both directions of the corridor are counted. An operator that names only the city leaves us the city, which is why some rows are city names.
The price on a card is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft. What that comes to per seat, across every type we see, is in how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Four of the six recorded legs carry the operator's own published price for the whole aircraft. USD 8,272 on an eight seat Bombardier Learjet 45, tail N312MA, from Jet Linx Aviation on 1 October, and USD 9,600 on each of three Bombardier Learjet 60s from Jetvia on 9 October.
The USD 8,272 is the interesting one. It is not a round figure, which is what an operator's own calculation looks like rather than a published rate, and Jet Linx is consistent about this: it puts a price on 225 of its 227 listings in our record, across 23 different aircraft types. Being that varied and that transparent at once is rarer than it sounds. The two operators with wider fleets in our record, Luxaviation at 36 types and Chartright Air Group at 28, publish a price on 55 and 80 per cent of their listings respectively.
Against it, the three identical USD 9,600 Learjet 60 figures are a rate rather than a calculation. One operator, three different airframes, one date, one number. It is USD 1,328 more than the Learjet 45 for a seat fewer over the same 615 nautical miles, which is a useful thing to have in hand. All of these are whole aircraft figures, never per seat and never a from price.
The two unpriced legs are Paradigm Jet Management's Lear 75 on 10 and 11 September, and that is house policy: Paradigm has published a price on none of its 74 listings and a tail number on none of them either, though it does publish a block time on all of them. There is nothing about the route to ask there, only the operator. Ask whether the departure time can still move, whether Spirit or Lambert is meant if the listing says only St Louis, and what happens if the paid flight that created this empty leg falls through.
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