Empty legs from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston

One way empty legs between Fort Lauderdale and Charleston, exactly as the operators list them. Prices are the operator's own, for the whole aircraft, not a marked up quote.

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Why this route produces empty legs

Fort Lauderdale Executive is the dedicated business aviation field north of the city and Charleston International carries the private traffic for the South Carolina Lowcountry. The sector is about 400 nautical miles and the six listings here that publish a block time give between one hour twelve and one hour thirty.

Nothing comes back. We have eight legs from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston and not one in the other direction. Charleston takes 93 recorded arrivals on our board, eight of them from Fort Lauderdale, behind Teterboro at twelve and Miami at eleven, so aircraft arrive from the south and leave in some other direction.

Five operators across eight legs, and they split cleanly on price. Jetvia publishes a figure on 3,038 of its 3,173 listings and Gold Aviation on all 192 of its own. Call a Jet, Hera Flight and Executive Fliteways publish none on their 214, 535 and 270. The three priced legs here are the two Jetvia listings and the one from Gold Aviation.

Four aircraft types, from a seven seat Bombardier Learjet 60 to a fourteen seat Gulfstream G550. Three of the eight are a Phenom 300, written as Phenom 300 by Call a Jet with eight seats and as Embraer Phenom 300 by Gold Aviation with seven. The rest of the spread is the signature of separate operators repositioning on their own schedules, not one aircraft running a route.

Recently listed on this corridor

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

When they show up

Eight legs on eight dates between 10 August and 22 October 2026. Two fell in August, three in late September within a week of each other, and three in October.

Nothing was live when this page was built. Six legs have flown and two, 19 and 22 October, were withdrawn before their departure date.

The route on a map

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

The airports on this route

• Fort Lauderdale Executive (KFXE): north of the city, general aviation only, the departure on three of the six listings that name a field, and the field the computed distance on this page uses.
• Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International (KFLL): the airline field, and the departure on the other three.
• Charleston International (KCHS): north west of the city, shared with the air force base, and the arrival on all six listings that name a field.
• Charleston Executive (KJZI): the general aviation field on Johns Island, and the arrival on none of these legs.

The two Fort Lauderdale fields split these listings evenly, three each, so this is one corridor where the departure airport genuinely is worth checking: Executive is general aviation only and quicker on the ground, Hollywood International is the airline field. At the Charleston end every listing that names a field names the same one.

Every leg we have on record for this route

Between 31 July and 19 October 2026 we recorded 8 empty legs from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston. 3 of them carried a published price, from USD 7,200 to USD 9,300 for the whole aircraft. All eight publish a seat count, from seven to fourteen, and six publish a block time, between one hour twelve and one hour thirty.

Departure	Aircraft	Seats	Operator's published price	Status
10 Aug 2026	Phenom 300	8	On request	Already flown
11 Aug 2026	Phenom 300	8	On request	Already flown
24 Sept 2026	Gulfstream G-IVSP	13	On request	Already flown
25 Sept 2026	Gulfstream G-IVSP	13	On request	Already flown
30 Sept 2026	Bombardier Learjet 60	7	USD 7,200	Already flown
11 Oct 2026	Embraer Phenom 300	7	USD 9,300	Already flown
19 Oct 2026	Gulfstream G550	14	On request	No longer listed
22 Oct 2026	Bombardier Learjet 60	7	USD 7,200	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

Three of the eight legs carry a published price: USD 7,200 twice for a seven seat Bombardier Learjet 60, on 30 September and 22 October, both listed by Jetvia with a block time of one hour twelve, and USD 9,300 for a seven seat Embraer Phenom 300 on 11 October, listed by Gold Aviation with the same block time.

Those two figures are worth looking at side by side. Same seat count, same published block time, USD 2,100 apart, different operators. It is the clearest illustration on this corridor that an empty leg price is the operator's own number rather than a market rate, and it is a reason to ask more than one of them.

Each price is for the whole aircraft, exactly as published, never per seat and never a starting figure. The other five legs publish nothing on price, and for Call a Jet, Hera Flight and Executive Fliteways that is their practice everywhere rather than anything about this route.

Ask which Fort Lauderdale field you are leaving from, whether the departure time can still move, and what happens if the paid flight that created the empty leg falls through. With no leg currently live, the route alert is worth more than checking the page.

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