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One way empty legs between Chicago and Minneapolis, exactly as the operators list them. The operator confirms availability and the price with you directly.
Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.
Chicago to Minneapolis is about 285 nautical miles between DuPage and Flying Cloud, the two fields that carry most of this corridor, and the legs that publish a block time run from one hour to one hour 18. It is a short midwestern sector with heavy airline competition, which is why almost everything on it is a light or midsize jet rather than a heavy.
Minneapolis is the busiest thing DuPage does. DuPage sends 77 recorded movements to 37 destinations and Flying Cloud takes twelve of them, ahead of Pontiac in Michigan at eight and Milwaukee and Des Moines at four each. From the other end, Flying Cloud takes 28 recorded arrivals from twelve origins and DuPage is first at twelve of those 28, and the next biggest origin is at four.
The return journey barely exists. Flying Cloud back to DuPage is four recorded legs against these twelve, and Minneapolis St Paul back to Chicago Executive is one. Aircraft go north west and find their own way back, which is exactly the condition that fills a corridor with empty legs in one direction.
Eleven of the sixteen legs are Integrated Flight Resources, and the shape of them is the single most useful thing on this page. Four are a five seat Cessna Citation CJ1 in late September and seven are an eight seat Embraer Phenom 300E. Six of those seven run on consecutive days, 1 to 6 October. That is one aircraft on a repeating pattern rather than six independent repositions, and it is the reason the leg count on this corridor is higher than the choice on it.
Sixteen movements on fourteen dates between 19 August and 15 October 2026, and the distribution is the thing to read. Six consecutive days from 1 to 6 October carry one leg each, all of them the same Integrated Flight Resources Phenom 300E, and another six fall in the eight days from 18 to 25 September. Outside those two runs the corridor produces almost nothing: one leg on 19 August and one on 15 October.
Two were still on the board when this page was built, the 6 October Phenom 300E and the 15 October Priester Aviation Praetor 500. Notice is close to nil on the Integrated Flight Resources legs: nine of its eleven were first seen on the day of departure, which is what a daily repositioning pattern looks like in a feed. The 15 October Praetor 500 is the exception, listed 37 days ahead. Across the whole corridor thirteen of the sixteen legs were first seen on the day they departed.
Approximate corridor between Chicago and Minneapolis. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
This corridor has three airports at one end and three at the other and they are not interchangeable. DuPage is 30 miles west of the Loop and Chicago Executive is north west of it, which is an hour apart in Chicago traffic. At the Minneapolis end, Flying Cloud is south west of the city, St Paul Downtown is on the other side of the Twin Cities and the international field is between them. Thirteen of the sixteen legs run DuPage to Flying Cloud, so that is the pairing to expect, but ask rather than assume. That split is also why the table below lists seventeen rows for sixteen flights: the 20 September Elite Jets Phenom 300 appears twice, once from DuPage and once from Chicago Executive, with two different block times, and we show the feed as it stands rather than quietly dropping a row. Flying Cloud back to DuPage is four recorded legs and does not yet have a page.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Chicago and Minneapolis, 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.
Not one of the sixteen legs carries a published price, across all five operators. Integrated Flight Resources has published a figure on none of its 63 recorded movements, Priester Aviation on none of its 75, Aircraft Management Group on none of its 343, Elite Jets on none of its 159 and Global Air Charters on none of its 285. That is 925 listings between the five of them and not a single price.
So nothing on this page can be compared on cost and we show nothing rather than guess. The figure comes from the operator when you ask, and on a 285 nautical mile sector against frequent airline service it is worth asking what the whole aircraft figure actually is before anything else.
What you can compare is the cabin, and the range is narrow. Fourteen of the sixteen legs are five to nine seats: four Citation CJ1s at five, two Citation CJ3s at seven, eight Phenom 300 family and Praetor 500 legs at eight or nine. The only large cabin aircraft on the corridor is a twelve seat Global Air Charters GIV on 19 August, and it is also the only leg that publishes no block time.
One warning on that GIV. Global Air Charters lists the same aircraft under several spellings in our feed, so its row here should be read as one recorded listing and not as evidence of a pattern. Ask the operator which field you are leaving from and landing at, whether the departure time can still move, and what happens if the paid flight that created this empty leg falls through.
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