Empty legs from Cleveland to Washington

One way empty legs between Cleveland and Washington, exactly as the operators list them. The operator confirms availability and the price with you directly.

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Why this route produces empty legs

Cleveland to Washington is about 250 nautical miles, and all ten legs we have on record publish a block time: 54 minutes on eight of them and 48 on the other two. Every one of them arrives at Washington Dulles, out in Virginia west of the city, which on a flight this short makes the drive at the far end the longer half of the journey.

All ten legs belong to one operator. Sky Quest has every leg in our record on this corridor, flown by eight different aircraft, and two of those tails appear twice. This is a single fleet moving repeatedly between the same two fields rather than a route several operators compete on, and it is why the aircraft on offer vary so much more than the price does.

Washington is the joint busiest destination out of Cleveland on our board. Of the 108 legs we have recorded leaving Cleveland, ten go to Washington and ten to Teterboro. The next largest is Nantucket on eight, then Jamestown on six and New York on four.

From the Washington end it is second place and a long way behind first. Eighty two legs into Washington are recorded in total, thirteen of them from Teterboro and ten from Cleveland, with Charleston third on four. We also keep the page for the other direction, Washington to Cleveland, which has six recorded legs from the same operator.

Recently listed on this corridor

Both directions, up to 20 flights, with the price exactly as the operator published it.

When they show up

Ten legs on eight dates between 24 September and 17 October 2026, which works out at a leg every two or three days across three and a half weeks. Three of those dates carry two legs each, 1 October, 9 October and 13 October, and on every one of them the two legs are different aircraft.

One was still on the board when this page was built, the 13 October Hawker 900XP. On a corridor producing a leg every few days out of one fleet, the route alert is worth more than checking the page.

The route on a map

Approximate corridor between Cleveland and Washington. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.

The airports on this route

• Cleveland Hopkins International (KCLE): the departure on nine of the ten recorded legs, and the field the computed distance on this page uses.
• Cuyahoga County (KCGF): north east of downtown and closer to the eastern suburbs, the departure on one leg, the 1 October Hawker 800XP.
• Washington Dulles International (KIAD): the arrival on all ten, in Virginia west of the city.
• Ronald Reagan Washington National (KDCA): far closer to the centre of Washington but subject to special access rules for private flights, and not the arrival on any leg in our record.

Dulles is the only Washington arrival in our record for this corridor, so if you want Reagan National that is a question for the operator rather than something a listing here will offer. On a 54 minute flight the drive in from Dulles takes about as long as the sector itself.

Every leg we have on record for this route

Between 31 July and 12 October 2026 we recorded 10 empty legs from Cleveland to Washington. None of the ten carried a published price. Sky Quest, which has every leg on this corridor, publishes a figure on only 43 of the 241 listings we have recorded from it, so that is its practice rather than anything about this route. All ten publish a block time, 54 minutes on eight of them and 48 on the other two, and all ten publish a seat count and a tail number.

Departure	Aircraft	Seats	Operator's published price	Status
24 Sep 2026	Hawker 800XP	9	On request	Already flown
28 Sep 2026	Gulfstream G450	14	On request	Already flown
1 Oct 2026	Hawker 800XP	9	On request	Already flown
1 Oct 2026	Hawker 900XP	9	On request	Already flown
9 Oct 2026	Bombardier Learjet 45XR	9	On request	Already flown
9 Oct 2026	Beechcraft Beechjet 400A	8	On request	Already flown
12 Oct 2026	Hawker 900XP	9	On request	No longer listed
13 Oct 2026	Hawker 850XP	9	On request	No longer listed
13 Oct 2026	Hawker 900XP	9	On request	On the board now
17 Oct 2026	Hawker 800XP	9	On request	No longer listed

This is a record, not availability. These are the legs we saw on this corridor in that window, kept so the route has a history you can judge it by. None of them is bookable from this table. What is actually open right now is the live list above, and if it is empty the route alert is the way to catch the next one.

Before you book

None of the ten legs carries a published price. That is the operator's practice rather than anything about this corridor: Sky Quest publishes a figure on 43 of the 241 listings we have recorded from it, using 18 different numbers, so most of what it lists says on request.

The ten legs are eight different aircraft across six types. Three Hawker 800XPs, three Hawker 900XPs, one Hawker 850XP, one Gulfstream G450, one Bombardier Learjet 45XR and one Beechcraft Beechjet 400A. Seat counts run from eight on the Beechjet to fourteen on the G450, so what you are quoted will depend heavily on which aircraft is going rather than on the sector.

Two tails appear twice. N277RS, a Hawker 800XP, flew the 1 October leg out of Cuyahoga County and is listed again on 17 October out of Hopkins, and N502RZ, a Hawker 900XP, appears on both 12 and 13 October. Worth asking whether a repeat on the same aircraft is a second flight or a listing that moved.

Ask which Cleveland field you are leaving from, since nine of these go from Hopkins and one from Cuyahoga County, whether the departure time can still move, and what happens if the paid flight that created the empty leg falls through.

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