The Riviera first, Paris second, and the cheapest seat of them all
Board figures from September 2026. The list further down is live.
France is the Riviera on this board. The country has 89 upcoming empty legs, 47 leaving and 50 arriving, with only 8 flying inside France. 47 of the 89 carry a published price.
Nice leads with 28 legs, then Paris at 17, Cannes at 14 and Toulon at 13: the three Côte d'Azur fields together outnumber Paris three to one. The corridors point north to Belgium, Cannes to Wevelgem five times, Wevelgem to Toulon three, Antwerp to Nice three, and across the Channel, Paris to London three each way.
Across the 36 legs priced in euros the median aircraft is 5,000 and the median seat 556 euros, the lowest of any country on these pages, because the CJ4 Gen 2 is on 29 of the 89 legs. The cheapest seat on the whole board when we read it, 433 euros, was a French departure, Toulon to Nancy. We have recorded 559 legs touching France since the end of July.
Upcoming legs touching each French airport. The linked ones have their own page with the live list and everything we have recorded there.
The most repeated city pairs touching France, with the number of upcoming legs on each. Direction matters: an empty leg is one way and there is no return.
| Aircraft, as the operator names it | Legs |
|---|---|
| Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen 2 | 29 |
| Embraer Praetor 600 | 8 |
| Cessna C25A CJ2+ | 5 |
| Cessna C510 Citation Mustang | 4 |
| Cessna C525 CitationJet - CJ1+ | 3 |
| Hawker 900XP | 3 |
Operators write the type their own way, so the same aircraft can appear under two names. We show what they wrote.
Median of the operator's published price, and that price divided by the seats the operator listed, on upcoming legs touching France that carry both. Only currencies with at least three such legs.
| Currency | Legs | Aircraft | Per seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUR | 36 | 5,000 | 556 |
| GBP | 8 | 6,700 | 744 |
Per seat is a division, not a fare: the operator sells the aircraft. How that works across the whole board is in how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Read from our listings when you open the page, soonest first. Price is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft, or price on enquiry if they did not publish one.
| Departs | Route | Aircraft | Seats | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loading the board. | ||||
A listing can be sold or withdrawn between our last check and your enquiry. Set an alert on a route and you hear first.
An empty leg is a flight a charter operator has to make anyway, to position an aircraft for a booking or to bring it home afterwards, sold at a discount because the alternative is flying it empty. The operator sets the route, the date and the aircraft. You fit into a flight that already exists, and it is one way: there is no return leg and no such thing as a return seat.
Everything on this page comes from French legs that operators published on their own websites. We read those sites several times a day and record each leg exactly as listed, route, date, aircraft, seats and the operator's own price where they gave one. We do not read brokers, we take no commission and enquiries go straight to the operator. A leg counts for France when either end resolves to a French airport, first by the airport code the operator gave and then by the city name, so a leg written as an airport name still lands in the right country.
The written figures above are a snapshot from September 2026 and are restated, not quietly edited, when we rerun them. The live list is the board as it stands now.
Nice is on 28 upcoming empty legs, Paris on 17, Cannes on 14 and Toulon on 13. The Côte d'Azur fields together carry three times the traffic of Paris on our board.
Across the 36 upcoming legs priced in euros the median published price is 5,000 euros for the aircraft, 556 euros a seat divided by the listed seats. That is the cheapest median seat of any country we cover.
The corridor exists on our board in both directions, three upcoming legs each way when we read it. Whether one is open on your date is what the live list and the route alert are for.