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Live empty leg flights to and from Cape Town, straight from the charter operators that fly them.
Checking live availability…We list what operators publish and take no commission. Your enquiry goes to them.
Availability is re-read from operator sources through the day, and each leg carries its timestamp.
The figure shown is the operator's own, for the whole aircraft. Where none is published we say so.
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Cape Town runs on the southern hemisphere summer. From November to March the city absorbs far more charter than it sends out, and the board reflects that: arrivals outnumber departures, because aircraft are flown down full and repositioned back empty. Those outbound sectors are the empty leg flights here.
The domestic network dominates: Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg to Cape Town and back, and Mpumalanga for the Kruger reserves. Longer legs reach Nairobi and Port Louis. The live counts below are read from the current board.
Cape Town is famously windy in summer; the south-easter can move slots by hours, so confirm timings on the day.
For what a seat works out at across the whole board, by aircraft type and in the operator's own currency, see how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Where an operator publishes a price it is shown exactly as listed, as a whole-aircraft figure rather than a per-seat fare. Where none is published the card says so rather than estimating. Our guide to the most affordable way to charter a private jet compares the options, and the private jet cost per hour breakdown gives the standard-charter benchmark.
Domestic South African sectors are flown by a mix of light jets and turboprops, including the Pilatus PC-12 NGX and Citation CJ4. Browse by aircraft type if cabin size matters more than the exact date.
Reading the record.
These are counts from our own board, read when you opened this page, so they reflect the operators we read rather than the whole market, and they are a record of what was listed, not a forecast. New legs appear with days of notice, which is what the route alert is for.
An empty leg exists because of the paid charter around it, so it can be sold or moved without notice. Every listing here is recorded from what the operator published, with the date we last saw it. Treat it as a strong indication rather than a guarantee, and confirm with the operator before planning around it.
Empty Leg List is a listing service. We are not a broker, not an operator, and not party to any booking, and we take no commission. Your enquiry goes to the operator covering the route, who confirms availability and final price with you directly. If nothing matches, set a route alert and we email you when a leg on that corridor is listed.
Working out the busiest corridors…
Working out which aircraft show up…
Live legs leaving from, or landing at, other airports within 150 km of CPT. A leg from an airport an hour's drive away can be the one that fits; the distance shown is from CPT to the airport the leg uses, in a straight line.
Every leg we have recorded with one end at Cape Town 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.
| Airport at the other end | Legs out | Legs in | On the board | Priced | Last seen |
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Legs out left Cape Town, legs in landed at Cape Town. Airports are named as the operator published them, so a row is whatever the operator wrote. The few legs where both ends resolve to Cape Town are counted above but have no other end to list.
Every corridor touching Cape Town that has its own page, with the legs we have recorded on it. Every empty leg touching the country is on empty legs in South Africa.